Arizona 7 - USC 6

Arizona Athletics has the full report. Here are my thoughts.

Arizona (13-12, 2-5 Pac-10) was down 6-2 going into the 8th. We scored 3 runs and then Jason Stoffel shut down USC's (11-14, 2-5 Pac-10) offense in the top of the ninth. Bottom of the 9th, with two outs and bases loaded, Brad Glenn hit a line drive to left field and Arizona won 7-6. A great game.

Half the fun at that game came from being in the Hot Corner, which is the student section at Sancet Stadium. It's truly a great experience. The trash-talking is epic, but clean and non-vulgar. Near the end, in the last two innings as Arizona was coming back, I kept yelling about how quiet the USC fans were. It was a nice contrast to the lone USC fan who tried, at the beginning of the game, to get us to shut up by yelling something along the lines of "Shut up, you idiot" at one of the more vocal fans, only to be booed in response.

There were several older USC fans (think 40s/50s) and we had a good back-and-forth with them at one point. There were jokes made about midlife crises and I even got a good one in.

"You're like the guy from Lethal Weapon: you're getting too old for this!"

Game two of the series is tomorrow at 6PM PST.