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Written by Tom Gibbons   
Saturday, March 06 2010 20:10

You can’t win ‘em all —but ASU is doing a good job of it so far. The Sun Devils beat UC Riverside 16-2 Saturday night in the Coca Cola Classic baseball tournament at Surprise Stadium, running their record to 10-0 record.

Former McClintock star Jimmy Patterson (1-0) pitched six strong innings to earn the first victory of his career.

ASU will finish the Classic against Florida International at 5 p.m. Sunday.

The Sun Devils, ranked No, 2 by Collegiate Baseball newspaper, survived its toughest test of the young season Friday night, rallying from a 3-0 deficit to beat No. 10 Oregon State 6-4. Former Brophy star Drew Maggi went 2-for-4 and drove in two runs against the Beavers.

On Saturday, Patterson, a junior who transferred from Central Arizona College, allowed six hits and two runs, striking out three and walking one.

Former Brophy stars Maggi and Matt Newman, Buckeye grad Kole Calhoun, Zach Wilson and Andrew Alpin led a 22-hit attack. Maggi went 4-for-4 with two RBI. Newman was 3-for-4 with two RBI. Calhoun was 2-for-4 with his first home run of the season.

Wilson was 3-for-6 with two RBI, and Alpin was 3-for-5 with three runs scored.

Alex Blackford pitched three scoreless innings for ASU.

UCR struck first. Brian McConkey led off the game with a single and scored when Tony Nix followed with a double that caught the left field line. Patterson was able to get out of the inning without further damage.

The Sun Devils answered with three runs in the bottom of the first. Maggi led off with a triple down the line in right. Sandra Day O' Connor graduate Zack MacPhee followed with a single to left, tying the game. Calhoun singled, advancing MacPhee to third. Former Brophy star Riccio Torrez hit into a double play, but MacPhee scampered home.

Matt Newman, another Brophy grad, followed with a double off the wall in dead center. Wilson singled to left field. Newman slid home safely ahead of the relay throw.

The Devils made it 4-1 in the second on an RBI double by Maggi. The inning ended on  a sour note. MacPhee hit his seventh triple of the season. No. 7 was not lucky.

MacPhee tired to stretch into a triple and was out and the plate.  He collided with catcher Dan Pallengrino.  A shoving match ensued. MacPhee was ejected.

Home plate umpire Pat Riley allowed Pallengrino to stay.

ASU coach Tim Esmay was not available for comment to the media expcept for ASU radio. He told KDUS that MacPhee was thrown out for what happened after the play. He said ASU taped the incident and will review it.

ASU made it 9-1 in the third. Wilson, Austin Barnes and Aplin had RBI singles, and an error allowed two runs to score.

Michael Hur homered to lead off the fourth for UCR.

Newman drew a bases-loaded walk in the fifth to make it 10-2. Barnes singled in a run to make 11-2 in the sixth.

Calhoun led off in the bottom of the eighth with a booming shot to straightaway right that was just short of the party tent set up for well-heeled Spring Training fans. Newman singled in Riccio Torrez and make it 13-2.

ASU added three more in the eighth.

 
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