PROVO — The BYU baseball team recently acquired first place in the West Coast Conference standings, with Saturday's 11-5 win over San Francisco giving a glimpse as to how it's been accomplished.
The Cougars showed forth solid hitting up and down the lineup, coupled with close-down pitching in the later innings, but it was perhaps the team's resilient attitude that stood out to coach Mike Littlewood after Saturday's win. For the third straight game, Littlewood's team gave up a run in the first inning, only to come back strong to win comfortably.
"Some years we would kind of panic and feel that the game's over, but it doesn't matter (this year)," Littlewood said.