Feb. 16, 2007
Box Score
WACO, Texas -- A six-run fourth inning propelled Baylor past Stephen F. Austin 11-1 at Baylor Ballpark in Friday night's series opener. With temperatures in the lower 40s, the game was called due to the run-rule after the eighth inning. Baylor (2-3) has won nine consecutive home games, the Bears' longest home winning streak since a 10-game run in April 2002.
Aaron Miller's two-run triple stretched Baylor's lead to 9-1 and capped a stretch of five consecutive hits for the Bears in the fourth. Tim Jackson, Dustin Dickerson and Seth Hammock also had RBI singles during the five-batter run, which started with a Beamer Weems single.
Baylor added a run in the sixth when Hammock doubled, moved to third on a ground out and scored on a wild pitch. Gregg Glime ended the game with an RBI groundout in the eighth. It was the first time in five career plate appearances that Glime did not reach base safely.
Starter Randall Linebaugh (1-1) earned the victory, allowing one run on three hits and four walks with five strikeouts over 5.0 innings. Willie Kempf scattered four hits and a walk with three strikeouts over the final 3.0 innings to record his first career save.
SFA (2-5) starter Erich Lehmann (0-1) was saddled with the loss. He allowed eight runs, seven earned, on 10 hits and three walks with three strikeouts in 3.1 innings.
Miller and Weems both finished the night 3-for-5 while the former tallied two RBI and scored twice. Dickerson also had two RBI and scored a couple. Jackson, Dickerson and Hammock each had two hits.
Baylor got on the board in the bottom of the first on a Dickerson RBI single. The Bears added two runs in the second on a Ben Booker RBI groundout and a Weems RBI single.
SFA got a run back in the top of the fourth on Ryan Sinclair's two-out RBI single. However, that just set the stage for Baylor's offensive explosion in the bottom of the inning.
Baylor and SFA continue their three-game series Saturday at 3 p.m. CST. The Bears send sophomore south paw Cliff Springston (0-1, 3.86 ERA) to the mound opposite Lumberjack right-hander Jared Schrom (0-0, 1.74 ERA).
NOTES: Baylor leads the all-time series 22-0, including a 6-0 advantage during head coach Steve Smith's tenure. The Bears are 17-0 all-time against SFA in Waco. ... The Bears improve to 34-8 at Baylor Ballpark since the beginning of the 2005 postseason. ... Dickerson and Miller both recorded their first career multiple-hit game. ... It was Dickerson's second consecutive multiple-RBI outing. ... Dickerson (four games), Jackson (four), Weems (three) and Miller (three) all extended hitting streaks. ... Baylor's run of five consecutive hits in the fourth was the longest such streak since a six-hit stretch March 11 in the first inning against Michigan. ... Linebaugh improved to 7-0 during his career at Baylor Ballpark.
