Air Force Academy
BYU
Cougars dominate Falcons, 17-2
4/11/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 11, 2003
BYU scored four runs in the first inning and rolled to a 17-2 win over Air Force in a Mountain West Conference baseball game Friday night at Miller Park in Provo, Utah. A season-high crowd of 2,274, the fifth-largest ever at Miller Park, saw the Cougars improve to 16-16 overall and 8-6 in the MWC. Air Force fell to 11-22 overall and 0-13 in the MWC.
Cougar starter Paul Jacinto went seven innings and combined with relievers Tyler Heid and Tyler Dabo to hold Air Force to just three hits and one walk in the game.
BYU first-baseman Jake Stubblefield hit a grand slam homer in the bottom of the first and that set the tone for the game. The Cougars added three in the third and four in the fifth for an 11-0 lead.
The Falcons got on the board in the seventh inning. Josh Phifer's double drove in Mike Rose for the first run. Phifer then scored on Derck Kasel's double. BYU scored six in the bottom of the eighth on five hits, an error and a wild pitch.
BYU tallied 16 hits off of four Air Force pitchers. Five different Cougars had two hits in the game. Falcon freshman Paul Vignola took the loss. He went 4.1 innings and gave up 10 runs on nine hits with four strikeouts. Freshman Clayton Couch was the most effective Falcon pitcher. He threw 2.2 innings and gave up one run, unearned, on two hits.
Phifer and Kasel each went 1-for-3 with an RBI in the game to lead the Falcon offense.
The series concludes on Saturday at noon in Provo, Utah.
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