Five GCU homers not enough at CSUSB

Friday, April 30

CSUSB

2 PM

Grand Canyon

28-24

CS San Bernardino

29-15

Grand Canyon

CS San Bernardino

Senior John Stanko hit a seventh-inning home run at CSUSB Friday.

4/30/2010 10:28:35 PM | Baseball

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Three seniors go deep in final game

By: Steve Heath

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Grand Canyon hit five home runs in its season finale, but it wasn't enough in a 17-9 loss to CSU San Bernardino at Fiscalini Field Friday.
Junior Tyler Bair (Scottsdale, AZ, Coronado) hit two home runs, including a solo shot in the first to give Canyon a 1-0 lead and three seniors, John Stanko (Mesa, AZ, Desert Ridge (Wayland Baptist)), Jay Green (Scottsdale, AZ, Horizon (Glendale CC) and Colin Courtland (Litchfield Park,AZ, Millennium (Iowa Wesleyan)) all went deep in their final GCU at-bat.
Courtland's ninth-inning two-run homer extended his hitting streak to 10 games.
The Coyotes scored four in the first, three in the second, six in the third and two more in the fifth inning, before GCU had a four-run seventh.
In the seventh, Stanko led off with a home run. Steve Haakenson (Mesa, AZ, Dobson) followed with a single and Ryan Jones (Scottsdale, AZ, Sunnyslope) doubled. Haakenson scored on a Green ground out and Jones came across on Bair's second home run of the game.
In the eighth, GCU added another run. Danny Bethea (San Diego, CA, La Costa Canyon) led off with a single, moved to second on a balk and scored on a Haakenson single.
GCU finishes the season with a 28-24 record, grabbing 11 more wins than in 2009. Bair finished the season with a .411 batting average, the best for a Canyon hitter since Matt Henne hit .414 in 2007. He also wrapped up the season with 55 RBIs, most since Cody Johns had 59 in 2006.

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