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USC Finishes Season With 13-1 Loss To Washington State
May 29, 2011 | Baseball
May 29, 2011
LOS ANGELES - Taylor Ard went 3-for-3 with two doubles, a home run and five runs scored while Matt Argyropoulos had a 3-for-5 day with a double and four RBI Sunday as the Washington State Cougars completed the 2011 season with the 13-1 win over the USC Trojans. Washington State hammered out 18 hits in the season finale for both teams as seniors James Wise and Paris Shewey combined to allow only six hits in the game.
Washington State took the weekend series, two games to one, and finishes with a 26-28 overall record while going 10-17 in conference. USC finishes the season with a 25-31 overall mark and 13-14 in conference action.
On Senior Day at Dedeaux Field, Wise allowed just one run on five hits in six innings while Shewey earned his 10th save on the season with three scoreless innings, allowing just one hit. Nate Blackham added a 4-for-5 day at the plate for the Cougars.
Adam Landecker led the Trojans with two hits as senior Logan Odom was roughed up for six runs in 4 1/3 innings.
Jason Monda plated Ard with an RBI single in the second, later scoring on Argyropoulos' double to right for a 2-0 lead. The Trojans cut the lead in half on Brandon Garcia's RBI groundout in the bottom half of the inning.
WSU led off the top of the fourth with back-to-back walks with Monda's sacrifice advancing Ard and Patrick Claussen. An infield single from Collin Slaybaugh and error scored both runners and Argyropoulos added an RBI single for the 5-1 lead. Ard doubled to lead off the Cougar fifth, later scoring on Monda's sacrifice fly as Washington State would salt the game away with three in the seventh and four in the eighth.
Notes: For the second straight year, All-American first baseman Ricky Oropesa led the Trojans in the triple crown categories as he finished with a .322 batting average (67-for-208) with seven home runs and 44 RBI...his 40 career home runs place him in fifth place on USC's career list for home runs with Morgan Ensberg (1995-98)...five Trojans batted .300 or better on the season (Oropesa, .322; Alex Sherrod, .318; Brandon Garcia, .309; Kevin Roundtree, .308 and Joe De Pinto, .300)...Andrew Triggs finished with the lowest ERA (3.67) among Trojan starters...freshman shortstop James Roberts led the team with a .365 batting average (31-for-85) in Pac-10 Conference games this season.
WSU 020-310-340---13-18-0USC 010-000-000---1-6-3
WP - Wise (5-6) LP - Odom (5-6) S - Shewey (10)T - 2:35 ATT - 539Records: Washington State (26-28, 10-17), USC (25-31, 13-14)
Wise, Shewey (7) and Slaybaugh, Clingan (7).Odom, Mount (5), Mezger (7), Wheatley (8), Cabral (9) and Roundtree, Hernandez (8).
