Cardinal end season with 42-14-1 record.

Stanford's Season Comes to an End

Baseball drops elimination game to Long Beach State.

May 23, 1998

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - Mike Gallo pitched a six-hitter and Jaron Madison hit the first two home runs of his 102-game Long Beach State career as the 49ers beat Stanford 5-1 Saturday in an NCAA West Regional elimination game.

Gallo threw only 85 pitches and did not walk a batter as the third-seeded 49ers (39-21-1) advanced to a Sunday matchup against North Carolina State.

No. 1-seeded Stanford finished 42-14-1. The Cardinal was ranked No. 1 in all major polls most of the season before dropping six of its final seven games, including two of three in the regional.

Gallo (6-1), a junior lefthander who had started only seven times this season, gave up only a seventh-inning home run to John Gall. Gallo went to a three-ball count on only one hitter.

Stanford freshmen pitchers Brad Drew (1-1) and Justin Wayne held Long Beach, the nation's second-leading hitting team with a .360 average, to six hits. But two were solo home runs in the second and eighth innings by Madison, a junior college transfer in his second season with the 49ers.

Long Beach State took a 1-0 lead in the first as Terrmel Sledge singled, stole second, was sacrificed to third and scored on Paul Day's infield out.

The 49ers got their other two runs in the fifth with the help of two walks by Wayne, who pitched 4 2/3 innings in relief of Drew. Bryan Kennedy drove in one of the runs with a fielders-choice grounder.

Drew was a surprise starter, having thrown only 20 1/3 innings this season. His 3 1/3-inning stint Saturday was his longest of the season.