Cougs baseball prevails against San Francisco
MIKE MAYNARD | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 months AGO
The Cougars baseball team was victorious 8-3 against the San Francisco Don’s.
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PULLMAN – The Washington State baseball team was victorious against visiting San Francisco on Monday, winning 8-3, according to a release from Washington State Athletics.
The Cougars, who took two of three games from San Jose State over the weekend, had six players record hits, led by Logan Johnstone’s four hits and Jonah Shull, who tallied three hits and two RBI. Max Hartman reached base four times with two hits, two walks and scored twice, while Ricco Longo doubled and scored on three runs.
The Cougs scored twice in the first inning to back starter Miles Chandler, who retired the first six hitters he faced before giving way to Ingmar Hutzezon, who set season highs with seven strikeouts over 4.2 innings and allowed just one run to earn his first career win. Rylan Haider picked up his third save after entering with the bases loaded in the eighth and picked up the final four outs.
The Cougs answered USF's third inning run with a run in the third, one in the fifth and four more in the sixth.
Chandler opened the game with three straight strikeouts before the Cougars used four hits to take a 2-0 lead after a Ryan Skjonsby RBI groundout and Logan Johnstone RBI single. Both teams traded runs in the third inning as Gavin Roy lined a pitch the other way for an RBI-single and a 3-1 Cougar lead.
Hutzezon took over from Chandler in the third and posted scoreless fourth and fifth innings as the Cougars added a run in the fifth on Shull's RBI groundout to shortstop.
In the sixth, USF pushed a run across and threatened to score more with a runner on third before Hutzezon ended the inning with a called third strike. WSU pulled away with four runs in their half of the sixth. After Skjonsby's bases-loaded walk, Johnstone pulled a two-run single through the right side, and Shull followed with an RBI-infield single to shortstop for an 8-2 lead.
The Cougars are gearing up for a weekend series at New Mexico State.
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