The 2005 River City Classic is one classic Sac State baseball will soon hope to forget.

-The River City Classic, a round-robin style tournament in its second year of existence, featured the colleges of Pacific, Davis, San Francisco and Saint Mary’s; Sac State was the site of this year’s tournament.

-The Hornets lost its finale to rival UC Davis, 5-2, capping a weekend of frustration for Sac State; Hornet baseball lost all three games of the River City Classic including games to Saint Mary’s and the University of San Francisco.

-Coming off a 6-2 loss to Saint Mary’s and a 12-1 drubbing by San Francisco, the Hornets needed a strong Sunday performance, especially against their Causeway nemesis.

-Unfortunately for Sac State, it couldn’t get anything going in its weekend finale, losing to the Aggies in disheartening fashion.

-The Hornets were the first team to get on board, taking a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning.

-After Everet Rincon led the inning off with a single, first baseman Brian Blauser knocked in the Hornet shortstop from second base with a single up the middle.

-Blauser, who went 1-for-3 on the day with a run, walk and RBI, is one of the offensive leaders for the Hornets; he’s batting .320 on the season with eight hits and five runs, both team-highs.

-Even with Blauser’s production, the Hornets struggled to score runs this weekend, a weekend after they scored 24 in three games against the Washington State Cougars.

-“We’re just not stringing any hits together,” Blauser said. “We get a lot of men on base, but today we couldn’t get many of them home.”

-Davis came back from the one run deficit, however, just the next inning.

-Daniel Descalso smoked a two-run, bases-loaded single up the middle to put the Aggies ahead, 2-1.

-Sac State would tie the score up late, when in the seventh inning, they got a much needed sacrifice bunt from Taylor Watanabe.

-Watanabe moved two runners over with the bunt, setting the stage for Matt Wilson, who scored Blauser with an RBI groundout, tying the game at 2.

-That’d be it for the Hornet offense, though, as the Aggies would pull ahead in the eighth inning after some costly errors.

-Four Sac State fielding errors would lead to three Davis runs, none of which were batted in, making the score 5-2 after the eighth; the lead would hold true for the rest of the game, finishing a winless tournament for the Hornets.

-A weekend chock-full of missed scoring opportunities and mental and physical errors had Hornet head coach John Smith disappointed, but full of optimism and anticipation for next weekend’s games.

-“Today’s game was hard to swallow and very uncharacteristic of the makeup of our team,” Smith said. “We had some mental errors, which lead to some physical errors, but the worst thing to do right now is get down on the players; we’ll come back next week and play the way I know we can play.”

-Any game Sac State plays against Davis is important, but Aggie head coach Rex Peters knows today was a battle and there will be more of them in store for the two teams after today’s win.

-“We got some big hits after a couple of their errors late in the game, and that was key for us,” Peters said. “It’s only one game for us, and a win’s a win, but it’s a good win and I know we’ll be seeing Sac State a few more times the rest of the season.”

-The Hornets’ next game at Hornet Field will be on Saturday against Saint Mary’s at 2 p.m.