COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The USC baseball team defeated Lamar 19-6 in an elimination game Saturday at the College Station Regional.
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“Well, we swung the bats well today,” USC coach Andy Stankiewicz said. “I think that was kind of the tale here from our standpoint.”
Adrian Lopez, who played at Maranatha High before finishing at Ganesha High, hit a two-run homer and Andrew Lamb, a JSerra High product, added a three-run homer in the first inning to give the Trojans a 5-0 lead.
Lopez had an RBI double in the second inning and scored on a single by Augie Lopez, a Loyola High product, to extend USC’s lead to 7-0.
Walter Urbon, also a Loyola High product, hit a grand slam as part of a five-run fourth inning. USC added four runs in the fifth on three doubles to make it 16-0.
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Lamar scored five runs in the bottom of the fifth. USC scored two runs in the sixth on a Kevin Takeuchi double and Isaac Cadena’s single. Cadena played at El Dorado High before going to Ohio State and TCU.
Adrian Lopez’s sacrifice fly in the seventh was USC’s 19th run of the game. The 19 runs marked USC’s highest-scoring postseason game since 1998 and were a season high for the Trojans.
Urbon finished 5 for 5 with five RBIs, while Adrian Lopez and Lamb each drove in four runs.
USC will play the loser of Saturday night’s game between Texas A&M and Texas State on Sunday at 1 p.m. PT/3 p.m. CT. The winner of that game will advance to the regional final.
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