Hurricanes Outslug Volunteers, 21-13 in CWS
June 10, 2001
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By DOUG ALDEN
AP Sports Writer
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Danny Matienzo hit a pair of homers and drove in six runsas Miami beat Tennessee 21-13 Saturday night in a record-setting game thatcompleted the first round of the College World Series.
The teams combined to set CWS records for hits (41), wild pitches (7), andthe time of play.
A few thousand of the game-time crowd of 23,994 stuck around to see CharltonJimerson catch Justin Parker’s fly ball in center field to end the 4-hour,21-minute game, which broke the day-old record set by Stanford and Tulane bythree minutes.
The Hurricanes (50-12) will play Southern California on Monday night in amatchup of two of the last three national champions. Southern Cal won the titlein 1998. Miami won in 1999.
Earlier Saturday, the Trojans beat Georgia 11-5.
Jimerson and Kevin Brown also homered for Miami, which had never scored morethan 17 runs in a CWS game in 18 previous trips to Omaha.
Jeff Christensen, Kris Bennett and Brandon Hopkins homered for theVolunteers, who will play Georgia in Monday’s early game.
Wyatt Allen (9-3) didn’t make it out of the second inning and took the loss.
Miami starter Tom Farmer (14-2) lasted five innings. But the Hurricanes’bullpen nearly blew the game after cruising into the sixth inning with a 12-4lead.
Tennessee (46-19) scored six runs in the sixth. Kris Bennett highlighted thesurge with a three-run homer that made it 12-8. It could have been a grandslam, but on the play before Bennett’s homer, Chris Burke was thrown out athome by right fielder Kevin Mannix.
Bennett followed with a homer to left, his first since April 11, and theVols got a bonus when Christensen struck out, but reached on a wild pitch.
Christensen, who scored Tennessee’s first run with a solo homer in thefourth, advanced to third on Javi Herrera’s single and scored on an error tomake it 12-9. Adam Smith singled to score Herrera.
Miami countered in the bottom of the inning with its own six-run rally. TheHurricanes scored two runs on a two-out single to center by Matienzo for a17-10 lead.
Matienzo, who hit a two-run homer during the Hurricanes’ seven-run second,also had an RBI sacrifice fly in Miami’s three-run fifth.
Tennessee got two more runs in the seventh on Hopkins’ homer, and one morein the eighth to close within 18-13. Miami added three runs in the eighth,including two on Matienzo’s second two-run homer.
The Hurricanes scored seven runs in the second on just four hits, includingMatienzo’s homer. Allen threw two wild pitches, walked two and hit a batter asMiami sent 11 to the plate.
Allen allowed eight runs, all earned, on seven hits in 1 2-3 innings.
Long Beach State and Arizona State held the previous mark of six wildpitches in a 1998 game. That mark fell in the sixth when Tennessee’s MattSamuels threw one in the dirt and Mike DiRosa went to third – for the thirdtime on a wild pitch.
The previous record for hits in a game was 39, set by USC and Arizona Statein the 1998 title game. The 34 runs were one shy of the record Arizona Stateand Oklahoma State set in 1984.
A total of 12 pitchers were used in the game, tying the record set by Miamiand Southern California in 1995.
