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In the interest of speed and timeliness, this story is fed directly from the Associated Press newswire and may contain spelling or grammatical errors.
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Texas 13, Miami 2
Saturday June 14, 2003
By ERIC OLSON
Associated Press Writer
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Texas converted three of Miami's five errors
into eight unearned runs and J.P. Howell pitched six solid innings
as the Longhorns cruised to a 13-2 victory Saturday night in the
College World Series.
Defending national champion Texas (49-18) advanced to a Monday
game against intrastate rival Rice (54-11), which beat Southwest
Missouri State 4-2 in the afternoon.
Miami (44-16-1) will play Southwest Missouri State (40-25) in a
Monday elimination game. The Hurricanes have gone two games and out
only once in 19 previous CWS appearances.
Saturday's 11-run loss was the Hurricanes' worst in their
74-game CWS history. Their previous most-lopsided loss was a 12-2
defeat to Texas in 1989.
Howell (10-2) limited the Hurricanes to six hits and two runs in
six innings, walking three and striking out eight.
J. Brent Cox, Sam LeCure and Josh Smith combined for three
innings of scoreless relief.
Omar Quintanilla and Eric Sultemeier homered, Curtis Thigpen had
four hits and reached base six times, and Dustin Majewski and
Taylor Teagarden had three hits apiece for the Longhorns.
Texas broke open the game after two errors by Miami freshman
third baseman Gaby Sanchez led to seven unearned runs in the first
two innings.
Sanchez threw into the dirt trying to get Sultemeier at first in
the first inning, allowing Tim Moss to score.
In the second, with runners at the corners and two out, Sanchez
couldn't come up with a routine grounder and Thigpen came home from
third for the first of six runs in the inning.
Quintanilla followed with a three-run homer off J.D. Cockroft
(11-3) that narrowly cleared the right-field fence. Then, after
Majewski singled, Sultemeier hit a two-run homer 10 rows into the
left-field bleachers.
Miami scored single runs in the second and third innings, but
Texas stretched its lead to 10-2 in the fourth on Teagarden's
two-run triple and Thigpen's single.
Thigpen's hit finished off Cockroft. He allowed 10 hits and was
charged with three earned runs in 3 1-3 innings, his shortest
outing in 16 career starts.
(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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