USD Baseball 2004

2003 wee CHAMPIONS USD WINS SECOND CONSEClffIVE wee TITLE

Josh Hansen nght is greeted at home plate b y teammate Freddy Sandoval leji after H ansen 's eigh th inning homerun gave San Diego a 2-1 lead over Pepperdine in the decisive game of the 2003 wee Championship Series. The Toreros moved on to the NCAA Regionals and Cal State Fullerton's Goodwin Field to play the host Titans, Notre D ame and Arizona in front of a national TV audi– ence courtesy of College Sports TV.

Final 2003 Schedule/Results (32-30; 18-12 wee Champions)

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 24 FRI

CAL POLY SLO CAL POLY SLO CALPOLYSLO

L 5-12 W 4-1 W18-6 L 7-9 L 4-17 L 2-7

SAT SUN FRI SAT SUN SUN SAT SUN MON FRI SAT SUN TUE SUN WED FRI SAT SUN TUE SAT SUN TUE FRI SAT SUN TUE FRI FRI SAT SUN TUE FRI SAT SUN TUE FRI SAT SUN TUE THR SAT TUE SAT SAT SUN FRI SAT SUN FRI SAT SUN FRI SAT SUN FRI SAT SUN

25 26 31

TEXASII TEXASII TEXAS 11

1 2

SAT (DI I)

Texas Tech/\ Texas Tech/\ Texas Tech/\ UC Riverside UC RIVERSIDE UC Riverside

L 3-8 L 3-8

7

L 13-15 L l -2(10)

9

15 16 17 21 22 23 25 28

L 0-1 W6-3 W 7-1 L 4-8 L 2-10

UC IRVINE UC IRVINE UC IRVINE

UC SAN DIEGO vs. Washington,"'

PPD

W 5-0

MARCH 1

vs. Oregon State#

W 10-9

(J O)

vs. CS Northridge#, UC SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO* SAN FRANCISCO' SAN FRANCISCO* Cal State Fullerton

W 12-0 w 9-3 W 7-6 L 4-14 W 10-7 L 6-16 L 7-9 L 2-3 W 5-1 L 4-12 W 8-3 W 11-9 W 19-9 L 1-6 W 7-4 W 4-1 L 2-9 W 3-2 L 0-6 L 3-6 L 1-12 W 4-3 W 16-5 L 0-6 L 1-2 W 8-4 L 5-10 W 18-11 W 6-5 L 8-13 L 0-5 L 0-14 W 7-2 W6-4 W4-2 Wll-2 W 7-4 W 9-7 W 17-4 W 8-2 L 6-7(10)

2 5 7 8 9

11 14 15 16 18 21 22 23 25 28 29

San Francisco• Sa n Francisco• San Francisco• PORTLAND* PORTLAND* PORTLAND' USCII

Late Inning Dramatics Propel USD Into NCAA's Behind a pair of determined pitching pe1fonnances from junior starte1°s Kyle C.Ollins and AaronWilson, along with a clutch eighth inning homerun by left fielder Josh Hansen, San Diego claimed its second consecutive West Coast Conference Champi– onship with a three-game series win over Pepperdine inMalibu.The victory over the preseason league favorite Waves set off an extended celebration for San Diego, winners of 9-of-10 down the stretch. University of San Diego shortstop Ben Quinto scooped up a routine groundball and flipped it over to Jose Ortega at second base to record the final out of the 2003 WCC Championship Series. The achievement of capturing back-to-back league titles set off an extended celebration for San Diego, a team that began the year 2-9 and played through a grueling 56-game schedule mired below the .500 mark For San Diego's six graduating seniors (Quinto, Tony Perez, DavidDunn, Chad Cummings, hehDobek and Mike Oseguera), the reversal of San Diego's fate must feel especially gratifying. These seniors and the entire 2003 team were not expected to win the WCC West Division and not thought of as serious contenders. And even as USD caught fire late in the season , ve1y few imagined that USD would travel to Malibu and knock off Pepperdine to win the Championship. The preseason prognostication seemed validated when San Diego was clobbered by the Waves- swept in a three-game weekend series at Cunningham Stadium in early April. Now slipping into second place w ithin the WCC West Division, San Diego was once again written off In just two days after Sunday's 12-1 loss to Pepperdine, the Toreros were slated to play perenial national power USC in Los Angeles. USD stunned the Trojans 4-3 under the lights of Dedeaux Field behind the pitching pe1fonnance of freshman left-hander JustinBlaine. Under the radar of any national or regional recognition, the Toreros went on to win 14-of-20 games down the stretch and 9- of-10 to end the season.

CS FULLERTON Loyola Ma,ymount'/1 Loyola Ma,y mo unt*A Loyola Ma,y mount*A CS NORTHRIDGE PEPPERDINE'II PEPPERDINE' PEPPERDINE'II Santa Clara'/\ Santa Clara'/\ Santa Clara'/\ San Diego State ST. MARY'S* ST. MARY'S* (DH) USC

.30

APRIL 1

4 5 6 8

11 12 13 15 17 19 22 25

SAN DIEGO STATEII

Gonzaga• Gonzaga' Gonzaga•

27

MAY-JUNE 2 FRI

L. MARYMOUNT' L. MARYMOUNT' L. MARYMOUNT'

3 4 9

Portland'/\ Portland'/\ Ponland'II

10 11 23 24 25 30 31

Pepperdine'II Pepperdine!II Pepperdine'II

W3-1

CS Fullerton$/\

L 1-3 W 5-2 L 3-6

Arizona$/\

1

Notre Dame$/\

Alive broadcast on wwv..r.usdtoreros.com .;,Clash of the Conferences (Lancaster. CA) 'West Coast Conference game 'WCC Championship Series $NCAA Regionals (Fullerton, CA)

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