Huskies Chow Down On Cougars Washington Slugs Six Homers, Savages Hapless WSU, 30-6

The Washington Huskies pounded out 30 hits Sunday, six of them home runs, and demolished Washington State 30-6 to complete a sweep of their Pacific-10 North baseball series at Bailey Field.

Washington ran its winning streak to nine games with the overwhelming triumph over its cross-state rivals, who appear headed to the worst season in school history.

The first-place Huskies bumped their season record to 25-11-1 and their perfect conference mark to 8-0. The Cougars, perennial champions in past decades, fell to 5-30 with a 1-7 Pac-10 mark.

Catcher Ryan Bundy led Washington’s assault on four WSU pitchers, lashing four hits, including his fourth home run. The Huskies were helped by five errors and eight walks.

Washington numbered 11 extra-base hits among its total and all 15 Huskies who came to the plate collected at least one hit.

Three homers accounted for all of WSU’s runs, including a grand slam by Jesse Hoorelbeke.

Washington put four unenviable school single-game marks in the WSU record book. UW’s margin of victory, 24 runs, was the worst in WSU history. The Cougars also set records for most opponents’ runs (30), earned runs (26) and hits (30).

The Huskies attacked WSU starter Todd Belitz for 16 hits and 17 runs in 3-1/3 innings. Later, they put 11 runs on the board in the sixth inning, helped by Bundy’s three-run homer, a three-run blast by Pete Orgill and a solo shot by Ed Erickson.

In the series, Washington outscored coach Steve Farrington’s WSU squad 61 runs to 20.