SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The Santa Clara University baseball team, behind a strong pitching performance by freshman starter John Redmond, earned its second straight win over the University of San Francisco Dons Saturday by a score of 5-3. The Broncos record improves to 4-15 and 2-0 in WCC while the Dons fall to 10-8 and 0-2 in the league. With the loss, the Dons drop their second straight loss for the first time all season.

The Broncos first score came in the fourth inning when John Hilvert hit a single to left field to knock in Pat Peavey. The Broncos added two more runs in the sixth inning off a sacrifice fly by Joey Gomes and a sacrifice bunt by Hilvert.

In the seventh inning, Santa Clara senior Matt Miller had two-out walk and recorded his fifth stolen base of the year. Sophomore Jack Headley then hit a ground ball through the legs of second baseman Luke Gradishar to score Miller and increase the Bronco lead to 4-1. After a two-out double by Joey Gomes in the bottom of the eighth inning, Hilvert singled to right field to record his third RBI of the game.

Redmond (2-2) received the start for the Broncos and, in six innings of work, shut down the Dons. He allowed four hits and struck out two batters. The only run Redmond allowed came in the second inning when Jason Howard knocked in Jeramy Janz to take a 1-0 lead. The Dons would not score another run until the ninth inning following consecutive shutout innings by freshman Chad Fillinger.

Junior A.J. Ampi recorded two outs in the ninth inning with one runner on base before he hit Nick Cirbo and gave up back-to-back RBI singles by David Seccombe and Armand Gaerlan. The score was 5-3 with All -American Taggert Bozied stepping to the plate representing the go-ahead run. Freshman pitcher Anthony Rea forced Bozied to pop-up to Matt Queen to end the game to earn his second save of the season.

Junior left-hander Jeremy Kinney (1-1) got the start for the Dons. He pitched six and two-thirds innings striking out seven Broncos and allowing six hits. The Broncos scored four runs off Kinney (two earned). Kevin Rose and Steve Moses both had relief appearances for USF. Jared Carvalho led the Dons offensively going 2-for-3 with a run scored. Howard was 2-for-4 with a RBI.

USF faces Santa Clara in the final game of the series on Sunday. First pitch is scheduled for 1:00 PM at Buck Shaw Stadium.