Waves and Cougars Set for Rubber Match on Saturday

Friday, May 21

Provo, Utah

5:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

18-23, 0

BYU

22-27, 0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Pepperdine	0	0	1	3	0	0	1	0	0	5	12	1
BYU	1	4	0	0	4	1	3	1	X	14	15	0

John Peck

Photo by: Jeff Golden

5/21/2021 8:43:00 PM | Baseball

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By: by Athletic Communications

PROVO, Utah – The Pepperdine baseball team fell in game two to BYU 14-5 on Friday night. John Peck homered for the second game in a row.

The Waves (18-23, 10-13 WCC) got some early runs, but the Cougars' (22-27, 14-12 WCC) offense was too much to recover from.

BIG WAVES

Senior outfielder Reese Alexiades (Manhattan Beach, Calif./Mira Costa HS) went 3-for-5 on the night with three singles.
Freshman outfielder Charles Masino (Newbury Park, Calif./Oaks Christian HS) went 3-for-4 with an RBI double in the seventh inning.
Freshman infielder John Peck (Moorpark, Calif./Moorpark HS) had a solo home run in the top of the third inning.
Senior infielder Aharon Modlin (Irvine, Calif./Woodbridge HS) had one hit, but it was a big one, a bases-loaded, three-RBI double in the fourth inning.

PLAY-BY-PLAY
BYU opened up scoring in the first inning on a bases-loaded double play. The Cougars took a 1-0 lead after an inning.

The Cougars scored twice more in the second on RBI groundouts to take a 3-0 lead. A two-RBI single extended the lead to 5-0 through two innings.

Peck got the Waves on the board with a solo shot to right field, cutting the Cougars lead to 5-1 through three full innings.

In the fourth, the Waves loaded the bases thanks to a Masino single, Wyatt Young (Honolulu, Hawaii/Mid-Pacific Institute) walk and a hit by pitch drawn by Billy Cook (Monument, Colo./Lewis Palmer HS). Modlin then hit a bases-clearing double to get the Waves to within a run.

A bases-loaded hit by pitch in the bottom of the fifth gave the Cougars a 6-4 lead. A 2-RBI double then made it 8-4. After an RBI single, the Cougars led 9-4 through five innings.

The Cougars added a run in the bottom of the sixth with a solo home run to take a 10-4 lead through six.

In the top of the seventh, Alexiades got the Waves started with a single. After a Ryan Johnson (Tempe, Ariz./Seton Catholic HS) walk, Masino doubled to deep right center field, scoring Alexiades to cut the Cougars' lead in half. BYU answered with a solo home run to get the lead back to six runs. A two-RBI single extended the lead to 13-5 through seven innings.

BYU added another run in the eighth inning on an RBI single.

UP NEXT
The Waves and Cougars will finish the series on Saturday, with first pitch scheduled for 12 p.m. PT.