April 19, 2009
BERKELEY, CALIF. - The California baseball team got a strong outing from sophomore right-hander Kevin Miller and pounded out 16 hits, including home runs from freshman right fielder Danny Oh, sophomore first baseman Mark Canha and junior second baseman Jeff Kobernus, on the way to an 11-1 victory over Oregon Sunday afternoon at Evans Diamond. Cal, who had defeated the Ducks, 14-1 on Friday and lost, 5-3, Saturday, improved to 18-19 overall and 5-10 in the Pac-10. The Ducks, who prior to this season hadn't fielded a baseball team since 1981, dipped to 13-23 overall and 3-9 in the conference. The Golden Bears scored at least one run in all but the seventh inning and limited Oregon to four hits.
Miller improved his record to 2-2 by throwing a career-high 7.0 innings with two hits, one run, two walks and four strikeouts. The Ducks got their lone run in the fourth inning when Curtis Raulinaitis led-off with a double, was sacrificed to third base and scored on Colby Sokol's RBI groundout to second base.
Meanwhile, Cal had a potent offense, scoring in the first inning on Oregon starter Alex Keudell's (0-3, 2.1 innings, six hits, two earned runs, two walks, one strikeout) wild pitch, a run in the second inning on Oh's lead-off homer, a run in the third inning on Canha's lead-off homer and a run in the fourth inning on sophomore shortstop Brian Guinn's sacrifice fly to center field. The Bears added a run in the fifth inning on junior center fielder Brett Jackson's RBI single to left field and two runs in the sixth inning on Kobernus' two-run homer over the left field fence.
Cal put up four more runs in the eighth inning on sophomore left fielder Dwight Tanaka's grounder to third base, freshman catcher Chadd Krist's two-run double to left field and freshman third baseman Marcus Semien's sacrifice fly to center field.
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Kobernus finished the game 3-for-4 with a two-run homer, and Krist went 3-for-5 with a two-run double. Canha (2-for-3, double, home run), junior designated hitter Blake Smith (2-for-4, double), Oh (2-for-5, home run) and Semien (2-for-2, sacrifice fly) had two hits apiece. Raulinaitis (3-for-4, double) had three of the Ducks' four hits.
Cal will next travel to Stanford for a non-conference game on Wednesday, April 22 at 5 p.m. at Sunken Diamond. The Bears will then host Arizona State in a three-game Pac-10 series beginning on Friday, April 24 at 2:30 p.m. at Evans Diamond.
Home Runs:
Oregon: None.
Cal: Danny Oh, solo home run in the second inning. Mark Canha, solo home run in the third inning. Jeff Kobernus, two-run homer in the sixth inning.
