UNION CITY - The UC Davis baseball team was considered the most dangerous No. 4 seed in the college regionals and the Aggies responded, beating Stanford 4-2 on Friday at Sunken Diamond.
UCD (35-22) was not the only 4 seed to advance though. Lipscomb upset Georgia 10-7 in the Athens Regional and in Long Beach, Fresno State upset the 49ers 7-3. Other Big West teams did advance though as Cal State Fullerton thumped Rider 11-0 and UC Irvine edged Oral Roberts 9-7.
The biggest upset though came in the Tallahassee Regional where Bucknell upset Florida State, the No. 2-ranked team in the nation, 7-0. It was only the Seminoles' 11th loss of the season and first time they had been shut out.
The Aggies will throw Brad McAtee today against No. 2 Pepperdine (37-19). The Waves escaped with a 4-3 win over Arkansas, needing a diving catch in the ninth by Nate Simon to preserve the victory.
The Waves were 7-4 against Big West teams this season, beating Fullerton, Long Beach, Santa Barbara Cal Poly and Riverside. They didn't play UCD or the conference's bottom feeders, Pacific or Northridge.
Since ace Nathan Newman started the opener, Pepperdine has a few choices today, but none has overwhelming numbers: Scott Alexander (7-4, 4.44), Matt Bywater (7-2, 4.97) or Robert Dickman (3-5, 5.46). Baseball America is guessing that the Waves may throw a wild card in Brett Hunter (14 strikeouts in 14 2/3 innings) against the Aggies.
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