Team USA also won their third game at the World University Baseball Championship in the Czech Republic. They crushed Lithuania 30-1 on Sunday, setting team records for runs, homeruns and RBI. Micah Gibbs, Hunter Morris and Scott Woodward each hit two homeruns. Gibbs, Woodward, Mike Leake and Blake Smith drove in a combined 18 runs. Brett Hunter started and struck out nine in five one-hit, one-walk innings. Edgaras Matusevicius scored the lone Lithuanian run. Starter Sigitas Juskenas was replaced midway through the ten-run third.
In the second game on Sunday, Japan defeated Canada 7-6 in eleven innings, when Takuya Tsukuura scored the game winner on a sacrifice fly by Takeshi Hosoyamada. They had tied the match in the bottom of the ninth through a RBI double by Tsukuura and a RBI single by Kyohei Iwasaki to force extra innings. Ken Fuglerud hit a three-run triple for Canada and reached home on an error in the fifth.
Results:
USA 15(10) 306 5 30 21 1 LIT 00 0 000 1 1 1 3
Box score
Recap on USABaseball
CAN 000 041 100 00 6 6 3 JPN 031 000 002 01 7 14 3
Standings:
- USA 3-0
- Japan 2-0
- Korea 2-1
- Taiwan 1-1
- Czech Republic 1-2
- Canada 0-2
- Lithuania 0-3