COLLEGE ROUNDUP : No. 1 Georgia Tech Tops Titans at Metrodome

Georgia Tech, the top-ranked team in the Baseball America poll, scored two unearned runs in the bottom of the 11th inning to defeat No. 7 Cal State Fullerton, 7-6, in the Oscar Mayer Classic in the Metrodome in Minneapolis.

Fullerton (7-5) took a one-run lead in the top of the inning when Nate Rodriquez drove in Tony Banks with a single. Rodriquez’s hit extended his hitting streak to nine games.

But Georgia Tech (12-1) tied the score when, with a runner on second, Rodriquez fielded a ground ball at shortstop and threw in the dirt to first baseman Kyle Evans. Evans wasn’t able to come up with the ball and the runner scored when the ball went into the dugout.

The winning run scored with two outs on a wild pitch by Ted Silva.

Jason Varitek, who played on the U.S. Olympic team in Barcelona, had three hits and two runs batted in for Georgia Tech. In women’s gymnastics:

UCLA wins--Cal State Fullerton’s Celeste Delia tied school records in the all-around (39.30), vault (9.90) and the balance beam (9.85) as Fullerton (7-6) finished with 190.30 points, behind UCLA (11-3) with 193.55.

In the NCCAA Division II national tournament:

Baptist Bible College 97, Pacific Christian 92--Charles Ross had 34 points and 17 rebounds and Ruxton Schmientenknop had 29 points for fourth-seeded Pacific Christian (25-13), which fell in a semifinal to top-seeded Baptist Bible (22-9).