Series with Pacific

Continuing their road trip, the Long Beach State Dirtbags took two of three from the University of Pacific Tigers this past weekend.

In the first game of the series the 'niners absolutely demolished the Tigers by the score of 20-0. This offensive outburst is something you don't see ever from this line-up. Second baseman Matt Duffy led the Dirtbags offense by driving in seven runs. Third baseman Mike Marjama had four runs batted in as well.

As for the pitching end, Andrew Gagnon held down the Pacific line-up, shutting them out over seven innings. The tall righty struck out eight batters, while only giving up three hits.

The Dirtbags split the next two games with the Pacific Tigers. Branden Pinder followed up Gagnon's strong pitching performance the day before with one of his own. Pinder went six innings, yielding only two earned runs. Pitchers Matt Johnson, Ryan Strufing, and Eddie Magallon came in in the later innings for the 'niners to keep the Tigers at bay.

Photo by Pacific Alumni Association

With the success of the first two games Long Beach looked to come away with a series sweep of the Tigers, yet left one game short. Closer Eddie Magallon gave up three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to lose it for the Dirtbags. This was rather uncharacterisitic as he has been nothing but solid for Long Beach all season.

One highlight of the dayt was when little-used utility player Brent Tani contributed to the score with his first home run for the black and yellow.