SPOKANE, Wash. — After securing a series-opening win on Friday with plenty of late runs, host Gonzaga clinched a West Coast Conference series victory Saturday with plenty of early runs, as the Bulldogs scored six in the first inning en route to a 14-3 game two win over the University of San Francisco baseball team at Patterson Baseball Complex.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Gonzaga (22-17, 14-6 WCC) jumped all over San Francisco starter Scott Parker (6-3) in the bottom of the first. Each of the first six Bulldogs batters reached safely, including five consecutive leadoff hits. Those included an RBI double from Troy Johnston, an RBI single from Austin Pinorini and another RBI double from Brett Harris. Daniel Frederickson's sacrifice fly made it 4-0, and Mason Marenco singled through the left side of the infield to score two more and make it 6-0 before the second out of the inning was recorded.
   
• Parker settled down and did not allow any runs in the second or third innings, and the Dons were able to get on the scoreboard in the top of the fourth to make it a closer game. Jonathan Allen doubled home Riley Helland, who had worked a leadoff walk, and Robert Emery singled home Allen to make it 6-2, and the Dons were in business with two runs already in, a runner on and no outs. But back-to-back strikeouts and a caught stealing quickly ended the rally.
   
• Gonzaga then came back out and put the game to bed with four two-run home runs over the next three innings. Troy Johnston hit his third home run of the series in the fourth inning after hitting two on Friday, a two-out, two-run shot, to make it 8-2 in the bottom of the fourth. Marenco hit also hit a two-out, two-run home run in the fifth to make it 10-2. Johnston made it back-to-back days with two home runs by hitting another two-run shot in the sixth, and Nick Nyquist capped the power surge with the Bulldogs' third two-out, two-run home run of the game in that same sixth inning to make it 14-2.
   
• Allen also homered for the second consecutive game, a solo shot in the sixth inning. It was his 14th home run of the season, doubling his season total from last year. Allen's home run tied him for seventh all-time in a single season at USF, and sixth all-time in career home runs with his 21st.

NOTABLE NUMBERS

• 19: Gonzaga's 19 hits were the most allowed by Dons pitching this season. It was the most hits they had allowed in two years to the day, last allowing 19 hits at BYU on April 27, 2017.
• 30: Jonathan Allen's sixth inning home run was USF's 30th homer of 2019. The Dons hit 30 in 58 games during 2018, and still have 13 scheduled games left this season.

COMING UP

• San Francisco hosts Sacramento State in a single non-conference game on Tuesday for the start of a five-game home stand. The Dons then host Pepperdine for a three-game West Coast Conference series starting at 3 p.m. Friday.
   
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