Baseball

Stanford-USC Baseball Game Notes (February 25, 2005)

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Stanford's victory snapped Stanford's three-game losing streak that was the team's longest since the Cardinal was swept at Cal State Fullerton (January 31 - February 2, 2003)
Stanford needs to win just one of the final two games of the series versus USC to extend Stanford's regular season series streak over USC to seven
Stanford did not homer for only the second in a game this season as Jed Lowrie's string of consecutive games with a homer ended at four
Mark Romanczuk threw his first career complete game shutout, tied a career-best for innings pitched (9.0), became the first Pac-10 pitcher to win his third game this season and now has 26 victories in his Stanford career to move into a tie for eighth on Stanford's all-time victory list ... Romanczuk had a season-high 12 strikeouts that were just one short of his career-high
Stanford head coach Mark Marquess won his 1198th career contest to move within two of the 1200-mark
Michael Taylor extended his hit streak to a career-high six games
Chris Minaker had two doubles in game for the first time in his career
John Mayberry, Jr. had his season-high hit streak snapped at eight games
Stanford improved its season fielding percentage to .980 by playing errorless baseball for the seventh time in its first 13 games