College Baseball : Doubleheader Loss to Texas El Paso Sends Aztecs Into Last in League

The San Diego State baseball team dropped a doubleheader Tuesday at Texas El Paso, 8-7 and 11-4, which put the Aztecs in last place in the four-team Western Athletic Conference Southern Division.

Brad Goodwin led off the bottom of the seventh inning with a home run to give the Miners the victory in the first game, which went seven innings. In game two, UTEP scored two runs in the first and were never headed.

Miner designated hitter Greg Walkup hit one home run in the first game and two more in the second.

Chris Gwynn led the Aztecs (5-10 in conference, 41-24-1 overall) with four hits and two RBIs. UTEP, which moved out of the cellar in the Southern Division, improved its record to 6-9 and 28-22.

Elsewhere in college baseball:

USIU 13, UC San Diego 10--United States International University had 20 hits and host UC San Diego answered with 15 in the nonconference game. The winning Gulls (16-21-1), were led by Marlon Figueroa and Phil Zimmerman, who scored five runs in the third inning and opened an 11-4 lead with four runs in the fifth. The Tritons, who fell to 22-19-1, received home runs from Dan DiMascio and Bob Natal.

Zimmerman went 3 for 5 at the plate with two RBIs. Figueroa added two doubles and drove in four runs.

Rian Long started for USIU and pitched into the sixth to gain his seventh win against four losses. Starter Rick Davis took the loss for UCSD.

USD 6, UC Irvine 5--The University of San Diego erupted for five runs in the seventh inning to erase a 4-1 UC Irvine lead and give the Toreros a win at Irvine.

The Toreros got back-to-back RBI doubles by Dave Rolls and Dan Echeveste. Then Jeff Grotewold hit a three-run home run, his sixth home run of the season.

Irvine had three runs in the second. The first scored on a fielder’s choice, the second a two-run single by Mike Sugar. The other Anteater other score came off an error in the third.

Tom Sizer (3-7) went the distance for San Diego (14-32). Damon Carr (1-3) lost in relief for Irvine (21-22-1).