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Bowling Green State University
OHIO
Falcons Outlast Ohio, 19-14
April 01, 2001 | Baseball
April 1, 2001
Athens, Ohio - Sophomore first baseman Kelly Hunt and senior third baseman Scott Dukate each recorded four hits, including home runs, to spark a 19-hit Bowling Green attack as the Falcons outslugged Ohio 19-14 in Mid-American Conference baseball action Sunday at Bob Wren Stadium. Hunt finished the day with five RBIs and three runs scored, while Dukate added four runs and three RBIs. The game, called by darkness after eight innings, lasted three hours and five minutes and followed a rain delay of 3:32.
BGSU will visit Michigan on Tuesday, at 3 p.m., host Detroit on Wednesday, at 3 p.m., and will host Buffalo in a four-game series beginning next Friday.
With the wind blowing out to right field, offense was the standard. BGSU (14-7, 5-2) tallied five runs in the first before Ohio scored six unanswered to move ahead.
But the Falcons responded in their next at-bat, sending 15 men to the plate and scoring nine. The inning started with back-to-back doubles and a two-run home run by Hunt. After a flyout and an error put a runner on second with one out, three straight Falcons recorded hits to add three more runs. A sacrifice fly was followed by Dukate's home run, making the score 14-6.
Ohio chipped at the margin throughout the remainder of the contest. Three more runs in the bottom of the third and a single score in fourth made the score 14-10. But BGSU tallied two runs in the fifth to regain a six-run cushion, but the Bobcats answered with two runs in the seventh. The Falcons put the game away in the eighth with three runs, although Ohio tallied a pair in the eighth and had runners on first and second when the final out was recorded.
Ryan Lindquist (1-0), the second of four Falcon pitchers, picked up the win in 2 1/3 innings of relief, while Bobcats starter Marc Cornell (1-1) took the loss.
All totaled, 18 players recorded hits - 11 with more than one - while 17 crossed the plate. The teams used 10 pitchers.
(Story courtesy of University of Ohio Athletic Media Services)
