BYU campus briefs

BASEBALL: Another rally ended in the final inning for BYU's baseball team Monday evening as it fell to Gonzaga, 9-7 at Spokane, Wash.

For the second time in as many days, the Cougars fell short in the final inning, this time to Gonzaga in the ninth. BYU, now 6-9, had an inning-ending rally last Saturday against Washington in Provo.

Gonzaga, now 8-7, overtook a 1-0 lead by BYU with a five-run Zag rally in the third.

Chase Frampton drove in BYU's first run in the second to score Bryce Ayoso who had singled and advanced on a Ryan Bernal double. Bernal was thrown out at the plate in an inning-ending double play.

In the eighth inning Frampton singled in Alex Wolfe to make the score 8-2. Wolfe, the reigning Mountain West Conference Player of the Week, struggled through the night, but had gotten on board with a dropped pop-up to third base.

Wolfe returned the favor with a bases loaded walk in the ninth to start a four-run rally for BYU. Wolfe, Sean McNaughton and pinch-runner Alex Hancock all scored on Ayoso's one-out double down the leftfield line to narrow the margin to 9-6. Ayoso then scored off Frampton's single and third RBI of the night.

"We had terrible at bats for seven innings, then had a lot better approaches at the end of the game," said BYU coach Vance Law. "They did a good job of changing speeds, credit their pitcher with a good job. We had a couple of scoring chances early in the game or it might have been a different outcome."

The two teams meet again on Tuesday night.