DeJong's Complete Game Win Keeps Titans Alive June 1, 2002 – Palo Alto, Calif.
Box Score and
Play by Play
Cal State Fullerton senior Jordan DeJong hurled a complete game to pace
the No. 25 Titans to a 9-1 win over 18th-ranked San Jose State in an NCAA
regional elimination game at Sunken Diamond Saturday.
The fourth-seeded Titans, who snapped their four-game losing streak, improved
to 37-21 overall, while second-seeded San Jose State finished its season
with a 45-17 mark. Fullerton advances to Saturday's 7 p.m. game against
the loser of the Stanford-Long Beach State game this afternoon.
DeJong, who threw 151 pitches, scattered just six hits and improved to
11-3 on the season while lowering his ERA to 4.00. San Jose State starter
Jahsean George (9-2) suffered just his second loss of the season and third
of his two-year career.
Fullerton, which didn't score until the seventh inning of Friday's opener
against Stanford, wasted little time on Saturday morning. The Titans put
up a run in the top half of the first when Shane Costa ripped a double
to left field and scored on Geoff Comfort's single up the middle.
San Jose State, which stranded nine runners, got to DeJong for its lone
run in the bottom of the first. DeJong issued back-to-back one-out walks
to Nathan Corrick and Gabe Lopez and a single by Kevin Frandsen tied the
game, 1-1.
But it was all Titans from that point. Fullerton scored twice in the second
and added another in the third on David Fischer's fifth homer, which also
extended his hitting streak to 13 games. George retired 13 of the next
15 battters he faced before the Titans chased him in the seventh by putting
runners on first and second with one out. Fischer greeted reliever Mike
Malott with an RBI-single to make it 5-1.
The Titans used consecutive singles by Nick Fitzgerald, pinch-hitter Richie
Burgos and David Munoz and a two-base throwing error to plate three runs
in the eighth and capped the scoring with an RBI-grounder by Chris Stringfellow
in the top of the ninth.
