Dedeaux Download Podcast: Junior leadoff hitter Abbrie Covarrubias talks about Trojans 11-0 start

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Shotgun Spratling and Kasey Kazliner return on the Dedeaux Download Podcast to break down another unblemished weekend for USC baseball as they improve to 11-0 on the season after recording their first four-game series sweep since 1978! They also talk with junior second baseman and leadoff hitter Abbrie Covarrubias about his and the team's hot start to the season.

The Trojans' starting pitching was again electric as Mason Edwards, Grant Govel and Andrew Johnson all three were spectacular and Chase Herrell joined the mix with five scoreless innings on Thursday.

The Trojans nearly had their second no-hitter of the season as Edwards and Sax Matson combined to throw TEN hitless innings Friday, but the game remained scoreless until the top of the 11th inning when USC broke the game open with six runs. That left the only question being whether the Trojans could get the final three outs before Cal Poly could get its first hit. They fell one pitch shy. Freshman Diego Velazquez got the first out but a grounder up the middle bounced off second base and out of the grasp of a sliding Covarrubias for an infield single. On the next pitch, Velazquez got a ground ball for a 5-4-3 double play to end the game.

After being bottled up Friday, USC's bats responded in a big way, pounding out 21 hits and scoring 16 runs -- both season highs -- while Govel again was outstanding on the mound despite giving up his first earned run of the season on a solo homer late in his seven-inning start. The Sunday matchup appeared to be going similarly to the dominant performances USC had shown the rest of the weekend until the ninth inning. After Johnson had been lights out, allowing one run on four hits in 6.2 innings, the Trojans held a 6-1 lead going into the ninth inning. That's when the Mustangs finally showed some life, scoring five runs with the help of a two-out error to tie the game and send it into extra innings for the second time in the series. The 10th inning remained scoreless, but USC burst through with a pair of runs in the 11th and freshman Gavin Lauridsen closed it out for the 8-6 win to complete the sweetp.

Shotgun and Kasey break down all the action and look forward to the upcoming matchups against UC Irvine and the start of Big Ten play against Illinois.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the data-download podcast at USC baseball podcast presented by 24-7 sports and USC football.com, the Peristyle podcast family of shows. We got all kinds of shows, but we're going to talk baseball today. I'm your host, Shoggins Spratling, alongside my co-host, Casey Kasliner. Casey, how are we doing today? I'm doing well, you know, just watch the Trojans from afar this past weekend for the first time this season. And, you know, it was a good exciting series to see. But I'm excited to go back to Dayton Field this week, which feels like my second home right now. What a disappointing thing to hear from you that you did not go up and get a chocolate, bacon, milkshake at San Luis Obispo Barbecue Company. I'm devastated for you that you did not make that trip.
0:55.1	Well, my parents need to give me a car so I can drive up to slow.
0:59.1	Hey, you can hitchhike your way up there.
1:01.0	You can always find a way if you really want to.
1:03.5	For any newcomers, listen to the show for the first time here on the data download podcast,
1:08.3	which is part of the Paras Stop Podcast, family shows.
1:10.2	We break down all the latest news and developments with the USC baseball program.
1:13.6	Each week during the season, we'll be recapping the latest action and looking forward to the upcoming matchups.
1:18.4	So we got four games to recap from last week after USC sweeps a weekend four game series for the first time since 1978.
1:29.1	I believe it is, 78.
1:30.2	That's a long time back.
1:31.6	Now, they don't play much, but did go up to Cal Poly, did go up to slow,
1:35.7	and we're able to get four games up there.
1:37.5	They did make the last one a little bit intriguing in the ninth inning
1:40.7	and then had to win it in extra innings.
1:42.3	But as always, please make sure you guys share, subscribe, like, all those things so that it continues to grow our show so that more people can join in the conversation here. And if you guys want to join in the conversation, you can always submit your questions, comments, concerns for future episodes by emailing podcast at uscfobal.com. Just make sure to put the dado download or the baseball pod and the headline so it gets
2:04.6	directed over at us.
2:06.4	Now this week on the data download, as I mentioned, four games to talk about up at Cal Poly.
2:09.8	It will also be taken a look forward as USC has a big matchup in the midweek against
2:14.7	another SoCal Power in UC Irvine and then starting Big Ten play already.
2:20.8	Seems kind of crazy that it's so quickly upon us, but that is the age we are in where you don't get a bunch of non-conference time.
2:28.5	You kind of got to jump into things pretty quickly.
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