Bruins look to avenge loss against Long Beach State

Tuesday, 5/6/97 Bruins look to avenge loss against Long Beach
State No. 6 UCLA comes in swinging after 14-3 drubbing in April

By Sierra Roberts Daily Bruin Contributor Tonight, the UCLA
baseball team will host the 49ers of Long Beach State in Jackie
Robinson Stadium at a 7 o’clock game. The nonconference matchup
will be the sixth-ranked Bruins’ last chance to get fired up before
they meet Stanford this weekend to play for a tie in for Six-Pac
lead. After having a perfect 4-0 week, the Cardinal are ranked
second nationally, up from their previous No. 3 spot, by Baseball
America. The Bruins (38-15-1) enter the game against the 49ers
(33-19), who are No. 18 in the nation, with an offensive edge.
Junior shortstop Troy Glaus, the No. 3 hitter in head coach Gary
Adams’s lineup, already has 28 home runs under his belt this
season, just one shy of the school’s season record. He also has a
batting average of .409, which leads the team. Senior left fielder
and leadoff hitter Jon Heinrichs will be looking to improve on his
22 home runs, .366 batting average and a 15-game hitting streak in
tonight’s game. On the other side of the diamond will be Long Beach
State, who also has an important league series to look forward to
this weekend. The 49ers look to clinch the Big West Conference’s
Southern Division title this weekend when they play Cal Poly San
Luis Obispo. Junior first baseman Toby Sanchez is going for the
team triple crown, as he leads the squad in batting average (.410),
home runs (10), and RBI (45). Starting on the mound for the Bruins
will be sophomore right-hander Dan Keller (3-3, 4.85 ERA). This
past weekend, Keller was part of the relief corps that followed
left-hander Peter Zamora’s start. In Keller’s two innings on
Saturday, he allowed two hits, struck out two and allowed no runs.
The Bruins are coming off a close three-game series at California.
The Bears ended their 10-game losing streak in a 9-8 win over UCLA
on Sunday after the Bruins took the first two games of the weekend.
Over the weekend, the 49ers won the first two games against UCSB
before losing the last one, 8-0. Starting for Long Beach head coach
Dave Snow will be left-hander Daryl Grant (1-0, 3.91 ERA), who will
try to win the second game of the season series against the Bruins.
The 49ers embarrassed the Bruins, 14-3, at Jackie Robinson Stadium
on April 8.