Pepperdine Drops Midweek Matchup with UC Santa Barbara

Tuesday, April 9

Malibu, Calif.

3:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

16-12

UC Santa Barbara

24-5

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

Billy Cook

Photo by: Stephen Wandzura

Pepperdine Drops Midweek Matchup with UC Santa Barbara

4/9/2019 7:02:00 PM | Baseball

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By: by Athletic Communications

MALIBU, Calif. –Billy Cook of the Pepperdine baseball team hit his second home run in as many games as the Waves fell 8-2 to UC Santa Barbara on Tuesday.

The Waves (16-12) outhit the Gauchos (24-5), but could not string any together to get runs on the board.

BIG WAVES

Sophomore infielder Billy Cook (Monument, Colo./Lewis Palmer HS) continued his hot streak, hitting his second home run in two games and his fifth overall.
Sophomore infielder Brandt Belk (Houston, Texas/Westside HS) went 2-for-5 on the day, including a triple in the 8th inning.
Junior infielder Quincy McAfee (Houston, Texas/Westside HS) had the Waves' other RBI on a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning.

PLAY-BY-PLAY
The Gauchos hit the ground running in the second inning, scoring five runs on a solo home run by Armani Smith and back-to-back singles to take a 5-0 lead after two.

The Waves got their first run in the sixth when Cook hit a ball into deep left-center field, over the fence for a solo home run. After six innings, the Gauchos led 5-1.

In the top of the seventh, UC Santa Barbara scored twice more on two sacrifice flies to take a 7-1 lead after seven innings. The Gauchos then scored in the eighth inning on another sacrifice fly. After eight innings of play, the Gauchos led 8-1.

Pepperdine got the final run of the game in the bottom of the ninth on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly from McAfee, scoring Cory Wills from third to get to the final, 8-2 score.

HIGHLIGHTS

UP NEXT
The Waves have a quick turnaround this week, as they head to Utah to take on BYU Thursday to Saturday. First pitch on Tuesday is set to 6 p.m. PT.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Arellano, Jorge (2-1)

L: Salazar, Raul (1-2)

UC Santa Barbara

Batting:

2B: Willow, Jason 1 ; O'Connor, McClain 1

HR: Smith, Armani 1

RBI: Yang, Eric 1 ; Jew, Tommy 4 ; Smith, Armani 1 ; Martinez, Andrew 1 ; Willow, Jason 1

SF: Jew, Tommy 1 ; Martinez, Andrew 1 ; Willow, Jason 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Mitchell, Tevin 1 ; Yang, Eric 1 ; Jew, Tommy 1 ; Rowan, Thomas 1 ; Smith, Armani 1 ; Martinez, Andrew 1 ; Willow, Jason 1 ; O'Connor, McClain 1