Oklahoma All-Stars Defeat California, 8-7

Oklahoma took advantage of four errors to defeat California, 8-7, Friday in the first game of the California-Oklahoma all-star baseball series at Smith Field.

Oklahoma took a 4-0 lead in the first inning on three hits, two walks, a sacrifice fly and an error.

California pitchers Kip Yaughn and Sean Rees gave up seven walks, hit a batter and threw three wild pitches.

California pulled within 4-3 in the bottom of the second. Lou Lucca walked to open the inning and singles by Troy Tallman and Brett Lawrence loaded the bases with one out.

First baseman Mike Fadelli followed with a bouncer up the middle that scored Lucca and Tallman and sent Lawrence to third. Lawrence scored on Randy Graves’ groundout.

In the fourth, Oklahoma added to its lead on an RBI triple by Kelly Stinnett and a two-out, run-scoring single by Steve Porter.

In the sixth, Oklahoma’s Eddie Lee walked with one out, and Porter followed with a grounder to third. Porter was out at first, and when Lee rounded the bag too far at second, first baseman Jason Moler of Esperanza High School threw the ball into left field and Lee scored. Steve Dean walked and scored Oklahoma’s eighth run on a double by Roger Burnett.

An RBI triple by Sean Mulligan and an RBI single by Lawrence pulled California to within 8-5 in the eighth, but Gary Haught came on in relief to record the final five outs, giving up two more runs, to save the victory for starter Kelly Revis.

The teams, made up of graduating high school seniors, play a doubleheader today at 4:30 p.m. at San Diego State’s Smith Field and two more games beginning at noon Sunday at the University of San Diego’s Cunningham Stadium.