Joe Sever After Beating LMU to Set Up “Championship” Series With USD

Joe Sever had a three-run HR and four RBI.LOS ANGELES — Joe Sever drove in four runs on the day and had the big blow in a four-run sixth inning that broke a 2-2 tie and propelled Pepperdine to a 9-3 win at Loyola Marymount Saturday afternoon at Page Stadium.

Sever blasted a 1-1 fastball over the left-centerfield fence for a three-run homer to give the Waves a 6-2 lead that they did not relinquish. He finished the day 2-for-5 with a walk and two runs scored to go with his four RBI.

 

With the win, Pepperdine moves in front of San Diego by a half-game in the race for the West Coast Conference title. After the game, I talked with Sever about winning the series against LMU and the upcoming unofficial championship series against San Diego.

Sever said the team has been looking forward to the potential of the final weekend showdown with the Toreros being for the WCC crown since the conference schedule was released. He also chatted about how the Pepperdine squad is playing some of its best ball all season now that some key players have got healthy. He also discussed the “bulldog” performance of Scott Frazier (7 IP, 6 H, 2 R, ER, 5 BB, 6 K) on the mound:

About Shotgun Spratling

Shotgun Spratling covers the Southern California area where he attended 75 games during the 2012 season. He attended grad school at USC where he covered USC sports for Neon Tommy, South LA Intersections, Annenberg TV News, KSCR and the Trojan Vision debate show Platforum Sports. He has worked with the Princeton Devil Rays minor league team, written for daily and weekly newspapers and done freelance work for publications such as ESPN, NBC Los Angeles and the SC Playbook magazine. After being a 3-sport letterman in high school, he was a 4-year letterman at Division III Maryville College where he concluded his collegiate career by inducing a ground out to end the 2007 Great South Athletic Conference Tournament and gave the Scots the GSAC championship. He also spent the 2010 summer in Cape Town, South Africa covering sports for the Cape Community Papers during the first FIFA World Cup held on African soil.