Waves Fall to San Francisco in Game 2

Saturday, March 20

San Francisco, Calif.

1:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

6-10, 1-1

San Francisco

5-13, 1-1

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Pepperdine	0	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	6	7	1
San Francisco	3	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	X	7	6	1

Reese Alexiades

Photo by: Jeff Golden

3/20/2021 4:33:00 PM | Baseball

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By: by Athletic Communications

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – The Pepperdine baseball team got two home runs from a single player for the second game in a row, as Reese Alexiades went deep twice, but fell to San Francisco 7-6 on Saturday in game two of the opening West Coast Conference series.

The Dons (5-9, 1-1 WCC) and Waves (5-13, 1-1 WCC) went back and forth during the game, which was tied three separate times, but the Waves ran out of outs too late to complete the comeback.

BIG WAVES

Senior outfielder Reese Alexiades (Manhattan Beach, Calif./Mira Costa HS) went 2-for-3 on the day, with both hits leaving the yard. He drove in three runs with his third and fourth home runs of the year.
Senior infielder Aharon Modlin (Irvine, Calif./Woodbridge HS) had two hits on the day.
Junior infielder Wyatt Young (Honolulu, Hawaii/Mid-Pacific Institute) also had a home run on the day, the first leg of back-to-back blasts with Alexiades.
Sophomore LHP Nathan Diamond (Oak Park, Ill./Oak and River Forest HS) came on in relief and allowed just a single run, striking out four and giving up just three hits over four innings.

PLAY-BY-PLAY
The Dons got on the board first in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI single through the left side. A two-run home run made it 3-0 through one inning.

Pepperdine got on the board in the second, when after a single, Aharon Modlin stole second and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt. He then crossed the plate on a wild pitch for the Waves' first run. The bases then filled up thanks to a walk from Joe Caparis. Young then hit a fly ball into left, deep enough to score John Peck from third to cut the lead to just a single run. San Francisco led 3-2 through two innings.

San Francisco extended its lead in the third inning on an RBI single, taking a 4-2 lead into the fourth inning.

In the fourth inning, the Waves quickly tied the game with back-to-back home runs from Alexiades and Young on back-to-back pitches. The two teams were tied through three and a half innings. In the home half, an error allowed two runs to score for the Dons, who led 6-4 through four innings.

Pepperdine got two more runs in the top of the fifth thanks to a two-run home run for Alexiades, his second of the game. The Dons got a home run of their own in the home half of the fifth to retake the lead at 7-6 through five innings.

The Waves threatened in the seventh inning, getting the bases loaded, but could not get any more runs across.

UP NEXT
The Waves and Dons wrap up the series with the rubber match on Sunday, with first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m.