Jaren Wilkey, BYU Photo
A seven-game losing streak ended Thursday as BYU baseball opened its three-game series at San Francisco with a 9-2 victory.
The Cougars, 20-24 overall and 9-13 in the West Coast Conference, pounded 18 hits and got good pitching efforts from starter Jordan Wood and reliever Rhett Parkinson. Wood improved his record to 4-4, while Parkinson picked up his first save of the season.
BYU never trailed in the game and kept its hopes alive for a possible WCC tournament berth.
Catcher David Clawson singled the first pitch of the second inning off the right-field wall and advanced to third on Casey Jacobsen’s one-out single up the middle.