University of Oregon
17-8
UC Riverside
10-15
Graham Leads Ducks To Win With 6 RBI
03/26/15 | Baseball
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – No. 22 Oregon scored early and often against UC Riverside on Wednesday cruising to a 12-3 win over the Highlanders at The Plex. The Ducks swept the two-game series after beating UCR in extra innings on Tuesday.
How it happened: Oregon scored two runs in the first inning and added seven more in the third to build a 9-0 lead en route to the win. The Ducks got RBI singles from Mitchell Tolman and Josh Graham to take the first inning lead. Graham highlighted the seven-run third inning with a grand slam home run. Brandon Cuddy added a RBI single and Shaun Chase chipped in a two-RBI hit to account for the seven runs.
UCR (10-15) added three runs in the bottom half of the third inning to cut the lead to 9-3, but UO (17-8) scored another run in fourth on a Graham RBI single, as well as runs in the seventh and ninth to lock up the win. Jacob Corn (2-0) picked up the win allowing three runs on nine hits in 5.0 innings pitched.
What it means: Oregon has won three straight games after taking the series finale over Arizona State on Sunday.
Graham has career day: Junior Josh Graham had the best game of his career going 3-for-5 with six RBI and a run scored. The Roseburg native hit his second career home run, a grand slam in the third inning. Graham's three hits and six RBI were both career highs.
Hostert makes successful debut: Freshman Cole Hostert burned his redshirt season coming out of the bullpen in the sixth inning to make his first appearance as a Duck. And it was quite a debut. The 6-foot-4 right-hander from Idaho Falls, Idaho, retired 12 of the 13 batters he faced to record his first career save. The only hitter to reach on Hostert came on an error in the ninth inning. Hostert's final line was 4.0 innings pitched, 0 hits, 0 runs, 0 walks and five strikeouts. He fanned the side in the sixth after entering the game with no outs and a runner on second. He retired the first 10 batters he faced.
On deck: Oregon continues its five game road trip Friday at Arizona where the Ducks will play the first of three, all of which will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks. Game times are 7 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. on Sunday. Oregon will send Conor Harber to the mound Friday.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Corn, Jacob (2-0)
L: Gonzalez, Jesus (1-2)
S: Hostert, Kohl (1)
Batting:
2B: Susnara, Tim 1
HR: Graham, Josh 1
RBI: Tolman, Mitchell 1 ; Cuddy, Brandon 1 ; Graham, Josh 6 ; Chase, Shaun 2 ; Susnara, Tim 1
SH: Heineman, Scott 1 ; Karaviotis, Mark 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Eureste, Matt 2 ; Heineman, Scott 1 ; Tolman, Mitchell 2 ; Cuddy, Brandon 2 ; Graham, Josh 1 ; Craig-St. Louis, Phil 1 ; Goldfarb, Jakob 2 ; Bryant, J.B. 1
HBP: Cuddy, Brandon 1 ; Karaviotis, Mark 1
PO: Karaviotis, Mark 1
Batting:
2B: Sawyer, AJ 1
RBI: Sawyer, AJ 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Chavez, Joe 1 ; Contreras, Mark 1 ; Morrison, Adonis 1
