March 7, 2006
Box Score
Berkeley, Calif. -- The Georgetown University baseball team dropped its fourth straight game with a 13-2 loss to the California Golden Bears. The Hoyas fall to 6-7 on the season.
Senior rightfielder Drew Dargen (Edmund, Okla./Edmund North) and junior leftfielder Mark McLaughlin (Walnut Creek, Calif./De La Salle) each had two hits. Dargen extended his hitting streak to five games and is batting .583 on the current west coast road trip (7-12).
Six California pitchers limited the Hoyas to five hits. Golden Bear starter Tyson Ross earned the win by striking out two without yielding a run in three innings of work while GU sent the minimum amount of hitters to the plate through the first six innings.
Georgetown starter, freshman right Darren Sizemore (Hamilton, Ohio/Ross) retired six of the first seven Bear hitters before Cal tallied at least one run in six straight innings beginning in the third.
The home team scored their first two runs on a first baseman Mike Van Winden's one-out, two-RBI double in the third. Brett Munster the tallied a solo homer in the fourth to increase the Bear advantage to 3-0. In the fifth, centerfielder Brennan Boesch ripped a two-run homer to plate Van Winden who reached on a bunt single.
California scored seven times in the sixth and seventh innings before the Hoyas got on the board with two runs in the eighth to make it 12-2.
In the Hoya eighth, Dargen singled to lead off the inning before senior first baseman Ryan Craft (Jupiter, Fla./The Benjamin School) doubled to put runners on second and third with no outs. Junior catcher Brandon Davis (Poway, Calif./The Bishop's School) then had a RBI groundout before Matthew Harrigan plated Craft by reaching on an error.
Darren Sizemore (2-1) struck out four Golden Bear batters in 5.2 innings. Senior righty Warren Sizemore (Hamilton, Ohio/Ross) tossed 1.1 innings and did not allow an earned run. Junior Michael Hoy (Southlake, Texas, Southlake Carroll) fanned one batter in eighth.
Georgetown returns to the diamond on Wednesday, March 8 when GU takes on San Jose St at 9 p.m. (EST).
