Lions to Play 2 Road Games
The Loyola Marymount baseball team, in first place in the West Coast Conference, will play U.S. International of San Diego and UCLA in non-conference road games.
The Lions, who have won 15 of their past 16 games, play U.S. International on Sunday at 1 p.m. and UCLA on Wednesday before returning to conference play.
The Lions are coming off a wild 11-10 victory over Cal State Long Beach on Tuesday.
Loyola (35-10 and 20-5 in the conference) leads the WCC in batting with a .336 average. Outfielder Rick Mediavilla is batting .401 to lead the league, and outfielder Tony Kounas, who is hitting .383, has taken over the conference lead in runs batted in with 51. Teammate Tim Williams has 48. Kounas is second in home runs with 14, one behind Arnie Sambel of the University of San Francisco. Freshman shortstop Chris Gomez is hitting .366 and leads the league in doubles with 18.
Darryl Scott (10-2) got the victory against Long Beach to improve to 10-2 to tie Jon Willard in victories.
In what has become a two-team race, Loyola leads the WCC by 3 1/2 games ahead of Pepperdine. The Waves play host to Nevada Reno for three games this weekend with a chance to tighten the race.
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