Waves Hit Three Home Runs in Late innings, but Fall Short to Gonzaga

Sunday, April 18

Malibu, Calif.

1:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

12-13, 5-4

Gonzaga

22-13, 11-4

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Gonzaga	0	6	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	11	13	0
Pepperdine	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	6	11	1

Photo by: Jeff Golden

Waves Hit Three Home Runs in Late innings, but Fall Short to Gonzaga

4/18/2021 5:05:00 PM | Baseball

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By: by Athletic Communications

MALIBU, Calif. – The Pepperdine baseball team fell in its final game of the weekend series to Gonzaga 11-6.

The Waves (12-13, 5-4) hit three home runs in the final two innings, but the Bulldogs (22-13, 11-4 WCC) built up too much of a lead for the Waves to complete the comeback.

BIG WAVES

Senior outfielder Reese Alexiades (Manhattan Beach, Calif./Mira Costa HS) continued his hot weekend, going 2-for-4 with a home run and a walk.
Senior utility Billy Cook (Monument, Colo./Lewis Palmer HS) went 2-for-4 with a home run.
Senior infielder Aharon Modlin (Irvine, Calif./Woodbridge HS) hit a solo home run in the eighth.
Junior Wyatt Young

PLAY-BY-PLAY
The Waves got the scoring going early in the game on Sunday. After two walks, Ryan Johnson (Tempe, Ariz./Seton Catholic HS doubled to deep right-center field, scoring Alexiades from second. Then Connor Bradshaw (New Rochelle, N.Y./Trinity-Pauling HS) grounded out, scoring Justin Lutes (Las Vegas, Nev./College of Southern Nevada) from third, giving the Waves a 2-0 lead.

Gonzaga answered in the top half of the second with six runs, taking a 6-2 lead through two innings. The Bulldogs added another in the top of the third, extending their lead to 7-2.

An RBI single gave the Bulldogs another run in the fourth, and two more runs were scored in the fifth to give Gonzaga a 10-2 lead through five innings.

The Bulldogs got an RBI-double in the top half of the sixth to extend their lead to 11-2.

Pepperdine got a run across in the seventh inning, as Johnson drew a bases-loaded walk, scoring Joe Caparis (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif./Palos Verdes HS), who singled to open the inning. Through seven innings, Gonzaga led 11-3.

In the eighth, Cook and Modlin hit back-to-back home runs, cutting the Bulldogs' lead to 11-6 through eight.

The Waves got another home run in the bottom of the ninth, this time from Alexiades, to cut the lead to 11-6, but could not overcome the deficit.

UP NEXT
The Waves are back at home on Tuesday, hosting UCLA with a scheduled first pitch at 3 p.m.