Box Score
TUCSON, Ariz.- For the second time in three games the Arizona baseball team had a player hit for the cycle. Following teammate Matt Abram's lead from a six days ago, slugger Shelley Duncan collected a single, a double, a triple and a home run in a 5-for-5, six inning performance against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Duncan finished the game with six RBI and five runs scored. The Wildcats won the contest 19-7 in a mercy rule shortened game. The victory improves the Cats to 25-17 for the season.
Duncan joins 10 other Wildcats on the cycle list and becomes just the 22nd Pac-10 player to complete the feat in conference history.
The junior doubled in the first, homered in the third, singled in the fourth and fifth and came up with his first triple of the season in the sixth to complete the cycle. His home run was his team and Pac-10 leading 18th of the season and his fifth in the past four games.
In an eerily similar situation another Wildcat player was only one hit away from a second cycle in the game. Last Sunday WSU's Bookie Gates needed only a triple for the cycle, Friday night Arizona senior Erik Torres was only double away. Torres, who finished 3-for-5 with three RBI and three runs scored, singled in the fourth, homered in the fifth and tripled in the sixth.
Brad Hassey rounded out the Arizona night of offense with a 4-for-4, four run effort. All told Duncan, Torres and Hassey accounted for 12 of the 19 Wildcat runs, as well as 12 of the 17 hits in the game.
David Brockman (1-2) picked up the win on the mound in relief of starter Sean Rierson.
The Wildcats will look for the sweep Saturday at 1 p.m.
