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Stanford-USC Baseball Game Notes (May 27, 2007)

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Stanford finished its 2007 season by extending its second longest win streak of the campaign to six games and won nine of its last 10 games overall

Stanford won three straight series for the first time in 2007 and the first time since the Cardinal won three series in a row versus Arizona State and California, and at Washington from April 28 - May 14, 2006

Stanford's late season run allowed the Cardinal to record its 14th consecutive season with at least a .500 record as the Cardinal finished at an even 28-28

Stanford climbed out of the Pac-10 cellar on the final day of the season and has still not finished last in the conference since 1993

Stanford closed the 2007 campaign with a season-long five-game road win streak

The game clocked in at 3:41 to mark the 19th time in 56 games in which the Cardinal has played 3:40 or more and the 36th occasion Stanford played for 3:00 or more

Stanford won its fourth straight game against USC after losing its previous four to the Trojans

Stanford's sweep of USC ended a four-series slide to the Trojans

Stanford finished the three-game series versus USC with 40 runs and 58 hits

Stanford recorded double digit hits for the 11th straight game and the 20th time in the final 22 contests of the season to finish the campaign with a season-high .305 batting average that marked the first time the club hit .300 or better as a team since the 2004 squad hit .324

Stanford's 19 hits tied its second-highest total of the season and was just one less than the season-high 20 the Cardinal recorded at USC on May 25

Stanford won its sixth straight day game

Stanford finished the season with 43 homers to extend its string of 40-homer campaigns to 20 in a row

Michael Taylor extended his career-high hit streak to 12 games with his 16th multiple-hit contest in his last 19 games

Brent Milleville equaled career-highs with four hits and two runs scored, while also hitting his first homer of the season

Toby Gerhart equaled career-highs with three hits and two runs scored

Cord Phelps extended his hit streak to a career-high-tying six games and had a career-high-tying three hits

Michael Taylor tied a season-high with six at bats

Jeff Whitlow tied a career-high with five at bats

Austin Yount equaled career-bests with 5.2 innings pitched and five strikeouts in his first career Pac-10 start