March 3, 2001

Box Score

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - The University of Memphis baseball team ran into a buzz saw on the mound on Saturday afternoon in an 8-2 loss on the road to the Blue Raiders of Middle Tennessee.

Middle Tennessee jumped out to a lead early when Justin Sims homered off of Memphis pitcher Jason Wiedmeyer to give the Blue Raiders a 1-0 lead after two innings. The score would ramain 1-0 until the sixth inning, when Sims scored one more RBI on a sacrifice fly and Brandon Johnson doubled in two more runs off of the centerfield wall.

The Blue Raiders added four more runs for cushion in the eighth inning off of Layne Dawson, and finished up their afternoon with eight runs.

In the ninth inning, Tiger second baseman Daniel Uggla launched a two-run home run over the left field wall, scoring left fielder Bill Edwards, for the Tigers only two runs of the afternoon.

Jason Wiedmeyer picked up the loss for the Tigers, but pitched well, going 6.2 innings, giving up six hits and two earned runs. Middle Tennesse pitched USA National Team Alumnus Dewon Brazelton, who set his career high in strikeouts, with 14, in a complete game, two-hit outing.

Memphis tries to rebound from their first road loss with a rematch against Middle Tennessee at 2 p.m. Sunday, again in Murfreesboro.