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Wildcats Fall to San Francisco, 10-4
2/14/2004 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Feb. 14, 2004
PHOENIX, Ariz. - Northwestern's baseball team fell to 1-2 with a 10-4 loss to the University of San Francisco at Municipal Stadium in Phoenix, Ariz., Saturday afternoon. NU led 3-1 before the Diamond Dons scored seven runs in the sixth inning to put the game away. Senior Jason Krynski led the 'Cats with two hits and two RBI, which included a solo home run.
Krynski got things started in the second inning when he plastered the second pitch he saw off the left-field wall, missing a home run by inches. Krynski's triple off the wall scored pitcher/designated hitter Dan Brauer from first. Brauer reached on a single to center. NU's hottest RBI man, Anthony Wycklendt, finished the second-inning scoring driving in his sixth RBI of the season with a groundout to second.
San Francisco left fielder Joe Jacobitz put the Diamond Dogs on the board, taking a Brauer offering over the left field fence. The round-tripper made the score 2-1 Northwestern.
NU manufactured a run in the bottom of the fifth inning on a pair of well placed bunts. Catcher Dan Pohlman led off with an excuse-me single over the first baseman's head and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Junior Doug Beatty executed a perfect sacrifice bunt, moving Pohlman to third. The very next pitch, freshman Caleb Fields laid down a perfect safety squeeze, plating Pohlman. It was Fields' second RBI of the season.
That's when the wheels fell off for the 'Cats.
In the top of the sixth inning, USF batted around as NU made three pitching changes. San Francisco scored seven runs on six hits, taking advantage of two Wildcat walks. Three of the Diamond Dons six hits went for extra bases, including a three-run home run.
After a scoreless sixth, Krynski led off the bottom of the seventh inning, lining a 1-0 offering over the left field wall. It was his first long ball of the season and the Wildcats first home run of the season.
San Francisco added two more insurance runs in the eighth to end the scoring.
Freshman Andrew Smith pitched the ninth, giving up one hit.
