TUCSON, Ariz. – The Stanford Cardinal completed a three-game sweep of the Arizona Wildcats on Sunday, winning 7-2 in front of 3,304 fans at Hi Corbett Field.
 
The second-ranked Cardinal improved to 30-5 on the season and 12-3 in Pac-12 play. Arizona dropped to 23-15 and 6-9 in league play. The Wildcats will look to regroup next weekend when they travel to Utah for a three-game series with the Utes. Arizona doesn't have a midweek game scheduled this week.
 
For the third straight game against Stanford, Arizona jumped out to a 1-0 lead. In the second inning, Nick Quintana started the inning with a double and moved to third when Ryan Haug reached on a one-out error by shortstop Nico Hoerner. Senior designated hitter Seve Romo then singled on a live drive to left field to plate Quintana and make it 1-0.
 
Matt Fraizer had a chance to increase the lead, but a hard liner with two outs was snagged by second baseman Beau Branton for the final out of the inning to limit Arizona to a one-run inning.
 
But an inning later, Stanford pulled even thanks to a two-out rally. With two gone and two strikes on Branton, the senior singled to put a man on for third baseman Tim Tawa. Tawa doubled to score Branton and tie the game at one.
 
Two innings later, in the fifth, Stanford again added a run off a two-out rally. Again with nobody on and two outs, right fielder Alec Wilson reached on an error and then moved to second when Branton walked. Tawa came through again with an RBI single to make it 2-1.
 
Stanford added two more runs in the sixth off a sacrifice fly from catcher Maverick Handley and an RBI single from centerfielder Christian Robinson to make it 4-1. The Cardinal kept pouring it on in the seventh with three more runs to increase the lead to six. Left fielder Kyle Stowers had a two-run single and Handley had an RBI groundout.
 
The Cats got one run back in the ninth on an RBI double from freshman designated hitter Tate Soderstrom that scored Haug. But the Cats weren't able to cut into it anymore and dropped the finale of the series to the Cardinal.
 
Soderstrom had the lone multi-hit game of the game for Arizona, going 2 for 2 with an RBI. Alfonso Rivas went 1 for 3 with a walk and extended his hitting streak to 10 games. Left-hander Avery Weems, who gave up one unearned run over 1 2/3 innings, was tagged with the loss for Arizona, dropping to 1-3. Erik Miller started for Stanford and earned his third win of the season, going five innings and giving up one unearned run.