CougCenter · Feb 18, 2023
WSU opens baseball season with a bang
via @wsucougarbsbI don’t know what it looks like outside your window, but down in Peoria, Ariz., it’s baseball season. The WSU baseball team headed south to open the season against Villanova yesterday, and pitched a two-hit shutout in the Seattle Mariners’ spring training ballpark.
Senior Dakota Hawkins fanned 10 batters in five innings and the WSU offense took advantage of some awful pitching by the Wildcats. Villanova walked 10 and hit two, to go along with two wild pitches by starter Sal Fusco. That’s why WSU got seven runs on just five hits.
Meanwhile, WSU pitchers combined for 17 strikeouts. Hawkins walked only two, both in the second inning.