Cardinal baseball team releases 2012 schedule
The Stanford baseball team released its 2012 schedule on Wednesday, posting a slate that features series against nine teams that played in the College World Series last season.
The Stanford baseball team released its 2012 schedule on Wednesday, posting a slate that features series against nine teams that played in the College World Series last season.
After extending its win streak to 12 games last week, the Stanford football team hosts Colorado this Saturday with a chance to stretch the streak to lucky number 13.
If you went looking for running back Anthony Wilkerson in the waning moments of Stanford’s close win over Arizona State last November, you’d find him taking a seat.
He wasn’t injured or surrounded by training staff. Nor was he in the stands to watch the action after the Cardinal went ahead 17-13 with just minutes to play. Instead, he was inbounds on the Sun Devils’ 4-yard line, with the ball in his hands and not a defender in sight.
Playing in its final home game of the 2011 season, the Stanford baseball team took on the giant-slaying Cal Poly Mustangs, owners of a 6-4 record against top-25 competition this season. That record now stands at 7-4.
The Cardinal (27-16, 9-9 Pac-10) clobbered the Aggie pitching staff for 14 hits and got a solid starting performance from sophomore righty Dean McArdle, who extended his record to 7-2 by holding the Aggies (14-26) to just three earned runs in 6.1 innings.
The No. 25 Cardinal scored early and often and held Pacific to one run over the final seven innings in an 11-5 victory
Kenny Diekroeger homered, Lonnie Kauppila had three RBI and the Stanford offense showed signs of life as the Cardinal got a much-needed win Tuesday, a 10-3 victory at Santa Clara.
Stanford baseball had a disappointing second series in conference play in Los Angeles last weekend, dropping two out of three contests to its in-state rivals, the USC Trojans.