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BB: Cougars Score 16 Runs in Win over SDSU 
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SAN DIEGO - Senior left fielder Sean McNaughton went 3-for-5 and six BYU players had two or more hits as the No. 4-seeded Cougars rebounded from an opening-round loss to eliminate San Diego State 16-8 on Wednesday in the 2010 Conoco Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship at Tony Gwynn Stadium.
BYU (26-30), which had eight hits in a 9-1 loss to UNLV on Tuesday, amassed 19 against the Aztecs. The hit total was the Cougars' third-highest of the season. In addition to McNaughton, center fielder Stephen Wells, catcher Alex Wolfe and right fielder Jonathan Cluff all had three hits for BYU.
The Cougars, who swept the Aztecs in a three-game series in Provo earlier this month, chased SDSU starting pitcher Corey Black after just 2 2/3 innings, building a 6-0 lead while pounding out nine hits.
The No.3-seeded Aztecs (28-28), who dropped a 12-6 decision to defending tournament champion and No. 6 seed Utah on Tuesday, took advantage of a fielding error to cut the deficit to 6-2 in the sixth.
But BYU, which also got two hits apiece from second baseman Dane Nielsen (2-for-3, two runs scored) and designated hitter Chase Frampton (2-for-5, two runs, two RBI), countered in the top of the seventh, scoring four runs on an RBI double by Cluff, a run-scoring single from Ryan Bernal and a two-run single by Austin Hall.
Tournament host SDSU rallied with five runs in the bottom of the seventh. Following a leadoff home run by right fielder Josh Chasse and a run-scoring single from first baseman Jomel Torres, second baseman Mitch Blackburn delivered a three-run homer to right to make it 10-7.
Yet any momentum gained by the Aztecs was effectively erased in the ninth when the Cougars struck for six runs, taking advantage of five hits, three errors and a wild pitch.
BYU will play its second elimination game of the tournament at 12 a.m. MT on Thursday.
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