Fresno State Athletics
Baseball Hosts Louisiana Tech
3/28/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 28, 2003
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Louisiana Tech (10-15-1, 3-3) at Fresno State (15-13, 2-1)
Date: March 28-30
First Pitch: 6:35/1:05/1:05 p.m.
Stadium: Beiden Field (6,575)
Location: Fresno, Calif.
All-Time Record: FS 6, LT 0
Local Radio: TBA
On Deck
Fresno State, winners of 10 of its last 11 games play host to conference rival Louisiana Tech this weekend ... Marks Fresno State's second conference series of the season and the first since taking two of three from Hawai'i (March 7-9) in Fresno earlier this month ... FS is a season high tying two games over the .500 mark for the second time this season (14-12, March 22) ... FS was 15-12 after 27 games last year while riding an 11-game winning streak that saw them sit at 17-12 after 29 ... Saturday and Sunday's games will be broadcast on GameTracker via www.gobulldogs.com.
USC Game Recap
Ryan Haag's RBI single in the eighth inning snapped an 8-8 tie and helped propel the Bulldogs to an 11-9 victory over USC Tuesday at Dedeaux Field ... Fresno State rallied from a four-run deficit with five runs in the fifth inning to take a 6-5 lead ... Chad Edwards (1-0) pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings in relief to earn his first victory of the season ... Bryan Wolfenbarger recorded the final four outs to notch his team leading fifth save of the year ... SC first baseman Joey Metropolous went 3-for-5 with two home runs and six RBI to lead the Trojans ... Metropolous clubbed a three-run homer in the third inning to give USC a 5-1 lead ... He added a solo shot to lead off the ninth ... After the Trojans took an 8-6 lead with three runs in the sixth, Casey McGehee belted a two-run homer in the seventh to tie the game at 8-8 ... Fresno State's win over the Trojans was their first in four meetings against their interstate rival dating back to 1993 (also in Los Angeles).
Casey At the Bat
Casey McGehee went 2-for-5 with a single and a two-run homer at USC and now has 208 hits for his career ... McGehee lined an infield single in the seventh inning in the championship game of the Pepsi/Johnny Quik Classic against Gonzaga to mark career hit No. 200 ... Eric Fox (1982-83, 85) tallied 225 hits as a Bulldog to rank tenth in school history ... He also has 114 career RBIs and is 11 shy of tying Ben Reynoso (1993-96, 125) on the school's career leaders list ... This season, McGehee leads the squad with 40 hits (third in WAC), a .370 batting average (fifth in WAC) and has two game-winning hits with a RBI single in the ninth inning against Hawai'i (3/9) and a run scoring double in the elventh against Gonzaga (3/15) ... McGehee has played in Fresno State's last 101 games.
Fresno State vs. Louisiana Tech
Fresno State swept two three-game series from Louisiana Tech last season and is 6-0 all-time against its conference rival ... Louisiana Tech is in its second season as a member of the Western Athletic Conference ... Four of the six games were decided by one run ... LT sits in fourth place in the conference with a 3-3 record including a three-game sweep of San Jose State in Ruston last weekend ... Mike Batesole has never faced Louisiana Tech ... Marks the second game for FS against a squad with a Bulldog as its mascot (Gonzaga 3/15).
Probable Statrters
FS RHP Cody Smith (4-2, 4.01) vs. LT LHP Adam Kirkendall (2-4, 4.19)
FS LHP Donnie Bair (2-0, 1.17) vs. LT Jon Lockwood (2-0, 2.79)
TBA vs. TBA
