Sports Shorts
Published Feb. 20, 2007
Baseball goes 2-2 in Arizona
The Missouri baseball team is now 5-2 after splitting four games this weekend in Arizona. The opener was a loss at Arizona State, but MU went 2-1 in the final three games at the Coca-Cola Classic in Surprise, Ariz.
After a 7-1 loss to the No. 13 Sun Devils, the Tigers again met up with ASU in the first game of the Coca-Cola Classic. This time, the team won 3-2.
The Tigers plated all three of their runs in the eighth inning off senior first baseman John McKee's two-out double. Sophomore starter Rick Zagone gave up two runs and five hits over 6.2 innings. He retired 14 of the final 17 batters he faced. Freshman Greg Folgia came on in relief in the seventh inning and pitched a total of 2.1 scoreless innings for the win.
MU beat Gonzaga on Saturday in a 10-3 triumph, earning Tigers' starter Aaron Crow the award of Most Outstanding Pitcher of the tournament.
Crow pitched seven innings, allowed no earned runs and only two hits while striking out four batters.
Freshman Trevor Coleman, who started as the Tigers' backstop, got his first college hit and finished the night 3-for-4 with three RBIs and two doubles. Sophomore Ryan Lollis, who went 3-for-5, also contributed to the 10 MU runs and scored from first base on a botched pick-off attempt.
Sunday's game was a 9-2 loss to No. 10 Oregon State. The Tigers surrendered two unearned runs in the fifth inning and never recovered, falling 5-2.
The Tigers head to Millington, Tenn., for the Service Academy Classic this weekend.
Softball finishes second at Stanford
The MU softball team got off to a rough start in the Stanford Invitational with losses to the Pacific Tigers and the Stanford Cardinal. But wins in MU's next two games against Santa Clara and Pacific put it in the championship game, where the Tigers again lost to Stanford, 4-1.
After putting up 23 runs in 10 innings against UM-Kansas City on Wednesday, the Tigers' bats went silent on the tournament's opening day. With a 9-3 loss to Pacific and 5-0 loss to Stanford, MU dropped to 4-5.
A game with Santa Clara on the second day proved to be the cure to the Tigers' woes, though. MU's 8-2 win against the winless Broncos marked the fifth time the Tigers had reached eight runs and the fifth time they had won.
After a 9-8 win against Pacific, the Tigers once again met the Cardinal. This time, MU opened the scoring with a run in the fourth inning, but Stanford pulled away with three runs in the sixth inning to take the victory.
MU is scheduled to play a home doubleheader against Saint Louis University on Wednesday. The game is scheduled for University Field.
Tigers finish third, fourth at Big 12 Championships
The MU men finished third to Texas A&M and Texas, and the women managed a fourth-place finish at the Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships in College Station, Texas.
The final day of competition was unkind to the Tigers. Both Texas schools dominated both the men's and women's sides of the last day of competition, losing only one of the finals on the last day.
The MU women ultimately fell short of rival Kansas after closing the gap to 25.5 points going into the last day. But with no victories, the deficit was too much to overcome, and the Tigers finished with 419 points, 29.5 points behind the Jayhawks.
Two bright spots for the Tigers were school-record times in the 100-yard butterfly and 400-yard individual medley from junior Bennett Clark and senior Jill Bastien, respectively.