The 2005 River City Classic is one 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.

The Hornets lost their finale to rival UC Davis, 5-2, capping a weekend of frustration for Sac State; Hornet baseball lost all three games of the tournament including games to St. 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 the 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 the offensive leader 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.

“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.

In the seventh inning, Taylor 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 two.

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 led 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 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.

Sac State’s next game at Hornet Field will be on Saturday against Saint Mary’s at 2 p.m.