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Bowling Green State University
MIAMI (OH)
Baseball Falls At Miami, 12-2
April 22, 2000 | Baseball
April 22, 2000
Oxford, OH -
Bowling Green had its seven-game winning streak snapped with a 12-2 loss in Saturday's nightcap in Oxford. Seven of Miami's 12 runs were unearned.
The RedHawks scored four times on four hits in the first inning and added three runs on two hits in the third inning.
BG's fourth inning run was scored by Kenny Burdine, who had a one-out single and scored on Lee Morrison's two-out single to center field. The Falcons final run came on Corey Loomis' pinch-hit home run leading off the sixth inning.
Joe Cheney started for BG and allowed eight hits in three innings. Six of the seven runs charged to Cheney were unearned. Deryck Griffith pitched the final three innings and allowed five runs (four earned) on nine hits. The 17 hits by Miami were the most allowed by the BG pitching staff in a game this season.
Bowling Green is now 21-14-1 overall and 10-2 in the Mid-American Conference. Miami enters Sunday's 1 p.m. doubleheader at BG with an overall mark 24-15 and a MAC record of 8-6.
Bowling Green 0-0-0 1-0-1 0 --- 2- 6-4 Miami 4-0-3 2-0-3 X --- 12-17-1
WP-Chris Leonard (2-1), LP-Joe Cheney (2-4)
Batteries: BGSU - Joe Cheney, Deryck Griffith (4) and Tim Newell, Brad Simon (6).Miami - Chris Leonard, Tim Wagner (7) and George Stegmiller.
BG hitting leaders: Corey Loomis (1-1, HR, RBI), Shaun Rice (1-1), Lee Morrison (1-3, RBI), Matt Best (1-2)
