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Lucas Engle picked up his first win of the season Tuesday in Youngstown State's 14-9 victory over Kent State.
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Baseball Roundup - May 13
Youngstown State outslugs rival Kent State 14-9, while Valparaiso rolls past Cedarville 13-6; in other action, Indiana defeats Butler 13-5, Wright State falls to Cincinnati 13-7 and Duquesne gets past Cleveland State 7-4
May 14, 2008
Youngstown State 14, Kent State 9
STRUTHERS, Ohio -- Youngstown State tallied seven runs in the third and added scores in every inning other than the first and sixth to beat Kent State 14-9 on Tuesday evening at Cene Park.
Joe Iacobucci had four hits and scored four times for YSU, which improved to 5-0 at Cene Park this season. The victory over Kent State (31-19) was YSU's second against a team with more than 30 wins in as many nights.
Kent State scored in seven different innings, but YSU's (21-30) pitching staff kept the Golden Flashes from scoring more than two runs in any of those frames. Kent State stranded 15 runners while YSU left just six.
The Penguins also scored on all four of Kent State's wild pitches.
Senior Lucas Engle earned his first win, allowing four earned runs while striking out five in five innings.
Kent State led 2-0 after scoring in each of the first two innings, but Engle worked out of jams and forced the Golden Flashes to strand two runners in both innings.
Iacobucci led off the second with a single, Anthony Porter doubled and Eric Marzec hit a sacrifice fly, but Kent State's Greg Rohan hit his 18th home run on the first pitch of the third to keep the visitors up two.
YSU then blew the game open in the third by scoring seven runs on seven hits as 11 players went to the plate. John Koehnlein led off with a walk, and the Penguins strung five straight singles together to take a 5-3 lead. David Leon and Koehnlein had RBI singles later in the inning, and the Penguins scored on a double play.
The teams each scored twice in the fourth through sixth innings before Kent State plated two unearned runs in the top of the seventh to get within three at 10-7.
The Penguins got some help in the bottom of the seventh and scored three runs on two hits. Kent State reliever Cory Martin walked the first two batters and hit Jason Reitenbach to load the bases before Brett Weibley took the mound. After a wild pitch allowed Marzec to score, Josh Page drove in Leon with a single and Reitenbach scored on another wild pitch.
Marzec singled in Iacobucci in the eighth to put YSU up 14-7, and Kent State scored twice in the ninth for the final tally.
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Valparaiso 13, Cedarville 6
VALPARAISO, Ind. -- Valparaiso used 11 extra base hits and runs in six of eight innings to defeat Cedarville 13-6 on Tuesday afternoon at Emory G. Bauer Field.
Matt Lenski homered twice on his way to three hits while Andrew Quinnette and Dan DeBruin each registered three extra base hits a piece. Quinnette had three doubles while DeBruin had two triples and a two-bagger.
Leading 3-0 in the third, Quinnette's first second double drove home Josh Wallace (Bellefontaine, Ohio/Bellefontaine H.S.) and Lenski followed with a two-run shot to increase the lead to 6-0. Lenski's solo blast in the fifth followed by a DeBruin run-scoring double made it an eight run Crusader lead before Cedarville found the scoreboard.
The Yellow Jackets batted around and plated five runs in the sixth, only three of which were earned. Valpo answered with three more in the seventh, one on a DeBruin triple and two more on Brett Bivens first collegiate homerun to leftfield.
Cedarville added one more unearned run in the eighth and Valpo scored two more in the bottom of the inning, one on a Quinnette double and the other on a John Giusti sacrifice fly.
Valpo finished the game with 18 hits, including a 4-for-5 game by Quinnette. DeBruin, Lenski, and Giusti also had three hits a pice in the victory for the Brown and Gold.
Bryce Shafer, the first of five Valpo hurlers, earned the win (3-4), striking out five in two innings of work. Crusader pitchers struck out 13 Yellow Jackets on the day. Andrew Lockridge (4-4) suffered the loss for Cedarville (21-29), working the first three innings allowing six runs on nine hits.
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Indiana 13, Butler 5
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Senior Nate Hart belted the second home run of his career, but the host Hoosiers would out-pace the Bulldogs on the offensive end in rolling to a 13-5 decision on Tuesday (Mary 13) afternoon.
Butler took any early lead in the first inning, as Hart led off with a double to center before moving to third on a sacrifice bunt by Colin Ziegel. After Joe Pauley drew a five-pitch walk to put runners on first and third, Hart came across for the first run of the game when Pauley drew the catcher's throw down in an attempted steal of second.
The Hoosiers answered back in the bottom of the frame on an RBI triple to right center by Josh Phegley. IU added three more runs, one earned, in the second to build up a 4-1 advantage before dropping a seven-spot in the third to go ahead by 10.
The Bulldogs threatened to come back in the game in the fourth, as Grant Fillipitch, Jason Jamerson and Ryan Neat led off the frame with three-straight singles to load the bases. Butler would only get two runs out of the inning, however, coming on an ensuing double-play and a wild pitch.
Butler added single runs in the seventh and ninth, as Hart connected on a 3-1 pitch for his second career home run before ripping an RBI double two innings later, but the effort would be too little too late.
Joe Ochs saw his streak of consecutive innings without an earned run end at 27, as the Hoosier tagged the junior southpaw for nine runs in dealing him his first defeat of the year.
Hart finished the day with a 3-for-5 effort at the plate with two RBI and two runs scored. Fillipitch added a pair of hits and a run.
Box Score
Cincinnati 13, Wright State 7
CINCINNATI -- The Wright State baseball team couldn't overcome six home runs from Cincinnati on Tuesday evening at Marge Schott Stadium, falling 13-7 to the Bearcats. Jeremy Hamilton and Casey McGrew each homered for the Green and Gold, but six WSU pitchers surrendered 13 runs in the loss.
The Bearcats got the scoring started in the first inning on a two out RBI single from Mike Spina off of WSU starting pitcher Jordan Wolfe. UC added a pair of runs in the second on a two-run home run from Ryan Baker.
Wolfe tossed a pair of innings and allowed three runs on three hits and was saddled with the loss. The sophomore falls to 0-1 on the season as he walked two and didn't strike a batter out in the start.
Cincinnati added a pair of runs in the third inning on WSU reliever Michael Woytek, as Spina connected on his 14 home run of the season, a two run blast.
Woytek tossed a scoreless fourth inning and WSU got the offense started with three runs in the top of the fifth inning. In the inning, John Kopilchack doubled, moved to second on a passed ball and scored on a Kyle Mossbarger ground out. Casey McGrew smacked his fourth home run of the season on the next pitch to end the day for UC starter Tyler Smith. Jeff Mercer drove in his 48th RBI of the season later in the inning to cut the UC lead 5-3.
The Bearcats would tally five runs in their half of the fifth inning on WSU reliever Michael Meintel. The two teams would trade single runs in the sixth inning to make it an 11-4 contest in favor of UC.
The Raiders collected three runs in the seventh inning off of UC relief pitcher Brian Sand. Aaron Field singled to lead off the inning and Jeremy Hamilton smacked his eighth home run of the season to cut the lead to 11-6. Ross Vagedes added an RBI double in the frame and WSU pulled within four runs at 11-7.
Baker and Spina each smacked their second home runs of the game in the seventh and eighth innings, respectively, to give Cincinnati a 13-7 lead.
Justin Parker collected three hits in the game, including his 52nd career double, and scored a run for the Green and Gold. Hamilton and Mossbarger each drove in a pair of RBI's in the contest, while McGrew and Vagedes each collected multi-hit contests against the Bearcats.
Box score not yet available.
Duquesne 7, Cleveland State 4
LORAIN, Ohio - Kyle Bischof had three hits, but Cleveland State dropped a 7-4 decision to Duquesne in nonconference action on Tuesday evening at The Pipe Yard. The loss extended CSU's season-high losing streak to six straight and dropped the Vikings to 20-26 this season.
The Dukes, who used seven pitchers, improved to 23-25-1.
The Dukes jumped on the board with a run in the first, but the Vikings used an RBI single from Bobby Cash and an RBI double by John Foco in the first inning to take a 2-1 lead.
However, the lead did not last long as Duquesne scored a run in the second to knot the game at 2-2 and added two more in the third to assume a 4-2 lead that the Dukes would not relinquish.
Derek Mechling delivered an RBI single in the second, while Bill Torre had a two-run single in the third.
Duquesne extended its lead to 7-2 with another run in the sixth and two more in the eighth on RBI's from Anthony Manley and Dante Plassio.
Tom Carter had a two-run single in the eighth for the Vikings to slice the lead to 7-4, but CSU would get no closer. However, the Vikings did have chances throughout the night.
In the third, CSU put runners on second and third with one out, but the inning ended when Foco and John Brown were retired on line drives to second and third base, respectively.
The Vikings led off the ninth with back-to-back singles by Travis Miller and Bischof. After Alex Kerins flied out, Cash hit a ground ball up the middle that the Dukes turned into a game-ending double play.
Bischof finished 3-for-5 with a run scored, while Foco and Carter both went 2-for-4.
CSU's Chris Bauman (1-2) took the loss, lasting four innings and giving up four runs (three earned) on six hits. Vasili Pahoulis worked the next two innings, while Brian Long, Sam Suitca and Jeremy Hartman each worked one inning.
Brian Bernardo started for the Dukes, giving up two runs on five hits in three innings. Lawrence Anderson, Joe Perotti, Nick Jones, Grant Gillespie, Andrew Heck and Danny Brown threw an inning each, combining to give up just two runs on seven hits with four strikeouts.
Anderson picked up the win to improve to 3-1 this season, while Brown earned his eighth save of the season.
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