Air Force Academy
Hastings College
Falcons roll past Hastings, 20-4
2/8/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Feb. 8, 2003
Air Force scored nine runs in the fourth inning and rolled to a 20-4 win over Hastings College in a non-conference college baseball game Saturday, Feb. 8, at Falcon Field. The teams were originally scheduled to play a doubleheader, but played just one game due to snow on the field. The game was stopped after seven inning due to the 10-run rule. The temperature at game time was 24 degrees.
Hastings, 0-1, jumped out to a 1-0 lead on Kyle Oakeson's solo home run in the first inning. Josh Phifer's two-run single in the bottom of the first gave the Falcons a lead they would never relinquish. Leading 3-2, the Falcons scored nine in the fourth for a 12-2 advantage. Six of the runs scored with two outs and four were unearned. Zach McAnguss and Phifer hit consecutive two-out, two-run doubles. Bowie Frost also had a two-run single in the inning.
Air Force, 2-2, scored four in the fifth and sixth innings. Pinch hitter Brent Tittle hit his first career home run, a two-run blast to left-center field in the fifth. Frost hit a solo home run in the fifth and an inside-the-park solo home run in the sixth. McAnguss, a freshman from Honolulu, Hawaii, hit a two-run home run the sixth, his second of the season.
Jesper Stubbendorff started for the Falcons and picked up his first win of the season. He threw 94 pitches in six innings, giving up four runs on five hits with six strikeouts. Schyler Griffiths took the loss for the Broncos. He pitched three innings and allowed three runs on two hits with four strikeouts. The Bronco bullpen gave up 17 runs on 16 hits in three innings.
Frost was 3-for-5 on the day with three runs scored, five RBI and two home runs. McAnguss was 2-for-4 with three runs scored and four RBI. Phifer, who came into the series batting .643 on the season, went 3-for-4 with three runs scored and four RBI.
Schedule Change: The same two teams conclude the series with a doubleheader (two seven-inning games) on Sunday, Feb. 9, beginning at 11 a.m. The doubleheader was originally scheduled for 10 a.m.
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