Baseball

Stanford-USC Baseball Game Notes (March 12, 2006)

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Chris Minaker extended his season-high hit streak to 11 games (career-high is 13) with his RBI single in the third

Brent Milleville's solo homer in the fourth was the first of his Stanford career

Ryan Seawell tied a career-high with three hits (second time in career)

David Stringer pitched a career-high 6.0 innings

Stanford has now lost back-to-back games for the second time this season

Stanford finished a stretch of eight consecutive road games with a 4-4 mark during the span

Stanford dropped its second straight regular season series to USC, marking the first time the Cardinal has lost back-to-back regular season series to the Trojans since USC won all six regular season games between the clubs in 1996 ... Stanford had won seven straight regular season series games between the teams before USC took two-of-three games against the Cardinal in Los Angeles in the final regular season series for both clubs in 2005

Stanford had its string of consecutive double-digit hit games snapped at seven

Cord Phelps had his career-high hit streak snapped at six games

Stanford's loss drops the team's record against non-ranked opponents to just 6-6 (the Cardinal is 5-1 versus ranked clubs according to Baseball America)

Another small crowd of 452 showed up to watch Sunday's game, but it was the best-attended contest of the series and enough to push the total for the three-game set over the 1,000 mark to 1,119