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Lucky Seven In Seventh for Falcons, Defeat Tennessee Tech 10-8
March 15, 2002 | Baseball
March 15, 2002
Cookeville, Tenn. - Bowling Green rallied from a 5-0 deficit thanks to seven runs in the seventh inning of Thursday night's game at Tennessee Tech to post a 10-8 win over the Golden Eagles. The win is BG's third in a row.
After being held hitless by TTU's Cole Helms for the first four innings, the Falcons scored one in the fifth, two in the sixth and seven in the seventh.
Len Elias began the seventh with a walk and advanced to second on a Kelly Hunt single. Corey Loomis walked to load the bases for Andy Hudak, who singled in two runs and tied the score at 5-5. Jeff Warnock followed with an RBI-single to put the Falcons ahead by one. Nick Elrod was hit by a pitch to again load the bases before Kirk Jensen drew an RBI-walk for a 7-5 BG lead. After David Barkholz singled up the middle to score two more runs, Tim Newell recorded the first out of the inning with a sacrifice bunt, moving runners into scoring position. Elias, who began the inning, hit a sacrifice fly to left field to score Jensen for the seventh and final run of the inning and give the Falcons a 10-5 lead.
Tech (7-9 overall) wasn't done, though, after reliever Clayton Booth walked the bases loaded to begin the bottom of the seventh inning. Freshman Matt Hundley then entered the game and gave up a two-run single to Jake Allen to close the gap, 10-7. Tech scored one more run in the ninth but that was as close at they got as Hundley earned his first collegiate save.
Barkholz scored BG's lone run in the fifth and hit an RBI-single in the sixth, as did Jensen, for the other three Falcon runs.
BG's leadoff hitter, Barkholz, led the offense by finishing 3-for-6 with three RBI's and a run scored. Hudak was the only other Falcon with more than one hit, finishing 2-for-3 with two RBIs and two runs scored.
Ryan Lindquist (1-1) earned his first victory of the season by lasting six innings, allowing five runs (four earned), walking three and striking out one.
Bowling Green is now 4-1 in five games while on its Spring Break trip.
BG (5-7 overall) begins a three-game series at Western Kentucky on Friday at 4 p.m.
