Arizona earned its second winthis season with a 5-1 victory over 22nd-ranked Vanderbilt at the Live Like Lou College Baseball Classic in Las Vegas on Saturday. The Wildcats received a great start from Smith Bailey and had a four-run sixth inning to power the win.
Bailey pitched 6.0 innings, allowing one earned run on three hits and two walks with six strikeouts. Vanderbilt took the lead in the second inning when Chris Maldonado doubled home Ryker Waite. Vanderbilt had multiple runners on base in the third inning, but Bailey got out of the inning to keep the Arizona deficit at one run.
Bailey settled down and retired 10 of the last 11 batters he faced. Arizona tied the game in the sixth inning when Maddox Mihalakis tripled to score Andrew Cain from second base. Mihalakis scored on a Jackson Forbes squeeze play to put Arizona ahead 2-1…