Rain Stops Panthers On Saturday
May 26, 2001 NOTRE DAME, Ind. - The NCAA Tournament baseball game between UWM and UC-Santa Barbara has been suspended by rain following a three hour and 12 minute rain delay. The game, which currently has UCSB leading the Panthers 12-7 in the bottom of the fifth, will resume at 10 a.m. Sunday morning. The other two games originally scheduled for Saturday will now be played later in the day Sunday, with the championship game pushed back to Monday. In the suspended game, UCSB jumped on Panther starter Mike Oiler for five runs in the first inning before knocking him out before he retired a batter in the second. Reliever Rob Erickson surrendered two more runs in the second, and Aaron Bushong allowed four unearned runs in three innings. The Panthers were hurt by a season-high five errors, while the Gauchos also recorded 11 hits. The Panthers struck offensively with four runs in the bottom of the second inning, then scored three more times in the fourth. Steve Guden led off the fifth with a single before the rains came. Tournament officials waited for more than three hours - and removed the tarp from the field once - before determining the rain would not let up, pushing the tournament back one day. Derek Daggett tied an NCAA Regional record with two triples, while Scott Gillitzer had a pair of hits, marking the 33rd time this season Gillitzer has had at least two hits in a game. Eric Geordt also broke an 0-for-13 streak with a two-run home run in the fifth. If UWM can win the suspended game Sunday morning, they would play at approximately 4 p.m. Sunday against the loser of the Notre Dame/Florida International game, which will begin 45 minutes after the conclusion of the UWM/UCSB contest.
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