Waves' Comeback Falls Short

Monday, March 4

Malibu, Calif.

2:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

3-6

UC Santa Barbara

8-2

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
UC Santa Barbara	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	5	7	0
Pepperdine	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	3	8	0

Billy Cook

Photo by: Stephen Wandzura

3/4/2019 5:45:00 PM | Baseball

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By: by Athletic Communications

MALIBU, Calif. – The Pepperdine baseball team scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth, but could not complete the comeback against UC Santa Barbara in a rare Monday game at Eddy D. Field Stadium.

The Waves (3-6) had a towering home run from Billy Cook, but back-to-back home runs in the top of the ninth for the Gauchos (8-2) proved to be too much for the Waves.

BIG WAVES

Sophomore infielder Billy Cook (Monument, Colo./Lewis Palmer HS) went 1-for-4 on the day, but his lone hit was a big one, a towering fly ball over the net in left field for a no-doubt home run in the fifth.
Junior infielder Quincy McAfee (Houston, Texas/ Westside HS) went 2-for-3 on the day, including an RBI double in the ninth inning.
Freshman infielder Wyatt Young (Honolulu, Hawaii/Mid Pacific Institute) had two hits on the day, and scored a run.

PLAY-BY-PLAY
The Gauchos struck first, on an RBI groundout in the fourth inning to take a 1-0 lead through four. The one run was starting pitcher Jonathan Pendergast's (San Diego, Calif./Cathedral Catholic HS) one of just two given up in the game. His final line was 6.0 IP, 2 ER, 4 K, 1 BB.

The Waves answered back in the fifth as Cook hit a towering fly ball over the netting in left field, evening the score at one.

No runs were scored until the seventh, when the Gauchos got an RBI single to retake the lead 2-1 after seven innings.

UC Santa Barbara hit back-to-back home runs in the top of the ninth, as well as another RBI single to take a 5-1 lead after eight and a half innings.

In the home half of the ninth, Young got things started with a sharp single to left-center. After stealing second base, he scored on a McAfee double down the left-field line, cutting the Gaucho lead to just three runs. After McAfee advanced to third on a wild pitch, Matthew Kanfer hit a fly ball deep enough to score McAfee from third to cut the UC Santa Barbara lead to just two runs. A line out to second base ended the threat, with the Waves coming up two runs short in the comeback.

UP NEXT
The Waves have a quick turnaround, as they head to Westwood to take on #4 UCLA tomorrow night. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.

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