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TEMPE, Ariz. -- The 19th-ranked Arizona State baseball team completed a three-game series sweep of Long Beach State with an 11-2 win on Sunday at Packard Stadium.
ASU (10-2-1) held Long Beach State scoreless in 26 of 27 innings over the weekend and did not commit an error in the series. The pitching staff allowed just 11 hits and issued only six walks in the series, with the Sun Devils outscoring the Dirtbags 21-2.
Seven ASU players notched an RBI in the bottom of the fourth inning Sunday as the Devils racked up nine runs on six hits to take a commanding 9-0 lead. Third baseman Michael Benjamin hit a two-run double to stretch his hitting streak to a career-high 12 games, Dalton DiNatale recorded his first career RBI with a bases-loaded walk and catcher Max Rossiter scored two runs to highlight the Devils' highest-scoring inning this season.
ASU racked up 22 consecutive scoreless innings in the series before the Dirtbags (6-10) broke up the streak with a two-run homer in the top of the fifth inning to cut the deficit to seven at 9-2.
Center fielder Kasey Coffman capped off three straight two-out hits in the bottom of the fifth with an RBI single, and second baseman James McDonald hit a solo home run in the sixth to extend the Devils' advantage, 11-2.
Starting left-hander Adam McCreery (1-1) posted his first win of the season after conceding two runs on six hits with a pair of strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings.
Right-hander Alex Blackford allowed one base runner in 1 2/3 innings and left-hander Matt Dunbar threw a perfect seventh before right-hander Ryan Burr struck out four to close out the final two frames.
LBSU starter Jon Maciel (1-3) took the loss after allowing five runs, three earned, on three hits in 3 1/3 innings.
