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Stanford-California Baseball Game Notes (March 4, 2007)

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The victory was the 2500th in the history of Stanford Baseball (114th season) to make the Cardinal just the fifth school to reach the illustrious 2500 mark with the other four being Fordham, Texas, USC and Michigan

Stanford extended its season-long win streak to eight games, which is the club's longest since the 2004 club also won eight straight from March 23 - April 3, 2004 (Stanford has not won nine or more in a row since a 10-game win streak from May 18 - June 13, 2003)

Stanford stayed unbeaten at home in 2007 with a 9-0 record at Sunken Diamond with its current nine-game home win streak the team's longest since the 2004 club won 12 straight home contests from April 10 - May 18, 2004

Stanford's 9-0 start at home is the team's best start at Sunken Diamond since the 1993 club began its home schedule with 10 straight wins

Stanford improved to a season-best five games over .500 at 10-5 overall

Mark Marquess won his 1267th career game as Stanford's head coach to equal Miami's Ron Fraser for 11th-place on the all-time win list for NCAA Division I Baseball coaches (Marquess is sixth among active NCAA Division I Baseball coaches)

Stanford clinched at least a tie in its season series with California during the regular season to run its string of not losing a regular season series to the Golden Bears to 30 consecutive years dating back to the last California regular season series victory in 1978

Stanford has now swept back-to-back home series for the first time since sweeping Fresno State (January 29-30DH, 2005) and Kansas (February 12DH-13, 2005) in its first two series of the 2005 campaign

Stanford earned a comeback win for the sixth time this season and is now amazing 6-2 when opponents score first in 2007

Michael Taylor (RF) and Sean Ratliff (CF) have now started all 15 games each this season, while Adam Gaylord (SS) did not start to end his string at 14

Michael Taylor extended his string of consecutive games started to 131 dating back to the 2005 season

Michael Taylor extended his season-high hit streak to six games

Sean Ratliff scored a career-high four runs and equaled a career-best three hits

Brendan Domaracki equaled a career-best with his first two-hit game of the season

The crowd of 1952 was the largest Stanford home crowd of the 2007 season for the third straight home game

Stanford made one error and has yet to record an errorless contest in 15 games this season

All nine Stanford hitters had at least one hit

Brent Milleville hit his first career triple

Adam Sorgi made his first start at a position since the final game of the 2005 season and his second of the 2007 campaign (his other was at designated hitter)