University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
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Baseball Falls to Oregon State, 7-5
June 21, 1999 | Baseball
May 7, 1999
WESTWOOD, Calif. - The red-hot UCLA Baseball team had some of it's momentum taken away with a 7-5 defeat by the visiting Oregon State Beavers in a Pac-10 conference game Friday night at Jackie Robinson Stadium. The Bruins, who have now won their last nine of 11 Pac-10 games, fall below .500 to 26-27 and 10-9 in Pac-10 action. The Beavers improve to 16-33 on the year and 4-15 in conference play. It was the first Pac-10 loss at home for UCLA, as the Bruins now have a 6-1 record at Jackie Robinson.
UCLA outhit the Beavers, 14-11, but failed to record an extra-base hit among those 14 hits. Home runs by Joe Gerber (two-run) in the 3rd inning and Bryan Ingram (solo) kept the Beavers with the Bruins in the early going.
The two schools traded leads in the first three innings four times. The Beavers tied the contest in the fourth off Ingram's home run.
The Bruins captured the lead in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI single by sophomore 3B/RF Nick Lyon, scoring sophomore DH Eric Reece. That would be all the scoring UCLA would do, as they were held scoreless by Beaver relievers Hal Ranstad, who improved to 2-1 on the season and Mike Gits, who picked up his first save of the year.
The Beavers regained the lead for good in the seventh with a run off UCLA starter sophomore LHP Ryan Carter and the decisive score off Bruin reliever sophomore RHP Chad Cislak, who had his four-game win streak snapped, falling to 4-2 on the season.
The same two schools will meet again tomorrow at 1:00pm at Jackie Robinson Stadium. UCLA freshman Josh Karp (6-3, 4.77) will go up against Beaver ace B.R. Cook (5-8, 5.22).
