Cal State Fullerton opened the season with a 3-2 victory against USC thanks to a stellar performance from freshman starting pitcher Thomas Eshelman. He pitched six innings, allowing four hits and two unearned runs.
USC took a 2-1 lead in the sixth inning, but the Titans answered back with two runs in the bottom half. Fullerton turned the ball over to relievers Willie Kuhl and Michael Lorenzen, who didn’t allow a baserunnner in the final three frames.
Check out the 16-shot photo gallery from Friday night’s matchup:
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.
