Arizona Baseball

Cardiac Cats do it again — Arizona beats USC with walk-off win to earn last Pac-12 tourney title

By Javier Morales

Posted on May 25, 2024

*Tommy Splaine is doused with water after coming through with the walk-off hit in the bottom of the ninth (Arizona Athletics photo)*

Tommy Splaine’s single to left field with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning scored Emilio Corona with the winning run in Arizona’s 4-3 victory over USC at Scottsdale Stadium on Saturday night in the Pac-12 tournament championship — the last in history.

It was the Cardiac Cats’ eighth walk-off win this season.

Arizona (36-21) is the Pac-12 regular-season and conference tournament champion — an accomplishment that should earn the Wildcats the opportunity to be one of the 16 host schools for next week’s regional round of the NCAA tournament.

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The NCAA Tournament Selection Show is Monday at 9 a.m. on ESPN.

Salpointe graduate Mason White, who had two moonshoot home runs in the tournament, was selected the Most Outstanding Player.

More to come from Saturday night’s game from AllSportsTucson.com’s Lori Burkhart and Kevin Murphy.

How the Arizona lineup fared tonight in the 4-3 win over USC:

POS	#	PLAYER	AB	R	H	RBI	SB	AVG
cf/lf	4	Summerhill	4	0	1	1	0	.328
2b	1	Caulfield, G	3	0	0	1	0	.305
ss	24	White, M.	4	1	1	0	0	.302
3b	33	Mihalakis, M	3	0	0	0	0	.255
c	2	McDonald, B.	3	0	1	1	0	.297
pr	11	Corona, E.	0	1	0	0	1	.266
dh	3	Cain, A.	3	0	0	0	0	.293
1b	20	Splaine, T.	4	1	2	1	0	.243
rf	12	Breyfogle, E	3	0	0	0	0	.250
lf	8	Rogers, B.	2	0	0	0	0	.179
ph	7	Morales, R.	0	1	0	0	0	.290
cf	16	Hintz, C.	0	0	0	0	0	.143
Team Batting Totals			29	4	5	4	3	10	27