In a game that featured some fine pitching, the BYU baseball team dropped a 3-2 decision to 15th-ranked San Jose State at the Spartan Classic Tuesday.
The Cougars were led by pitcher Rob Jensen, who had a great outing in holding host San Jose State to just eight hits and two earned runs.The Cougars got off to an early start, when Matt Norman singled with one out in the first. Randy Wilstead followed with his first triple of the year and the Cougars moved ahead 1-0. Blaine Milne increased the lead to 2-0 with an infield grounder that allowed Wilstead to score from third.
The Spartans threatened early in the third, but were held to one run on some great defense by the Cougars. The highlight of the inning occured when BYU nailed San Jose's Drotar at the plate on a relay throw from Daniels-Howes-Milne after Booker had doubled off the center field wall.
San Jose battled back, coming up with one run in the fourth and one in the sixth and took a 3-2 lead.
The Cougars who are now 1-1 in the tournament, play Washington on Wednesday.