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BGSU Rallies for 9-8 Win Over Marshall
April 20, 2002 | Baseball
April 20, 2002
Bowling Green, Ohio - Bowling Green rallied for a 9-8 victory with five runs in the sixth inning in game one of a doubleheader against Marshall University on Saturday at Warren Steller Field.
In the seven-inning affair, all of the 17 runs scored came in three innings. Junior second baseman Corey Loomis broke open a scoreless game in the third inning with an RBI-triple to right-center field, scoring David Barkholz, for a 1-0 Falcon lead. First baseman Kelly Hunt extended the lead with a two-run homer to right field and shortstop Nick Elrod hit a solo homer down the right-field line for the four Falcon runs.
The lead held until the sixth inning when Marshall plated eight runs off of six hits. Four-straight singles scored two runs for the Herd and a wild pitch by reliever Burke Badenhop scored Mike Koitsopolous. Then, with the bases loaded, first baseman Craig Dziedziejko doubled down the right-field line for a 7-4 MU lead. An RBI-single from Homer Renshaw scored Gregg Hiller and the final Marshall run.
But, BGSU regained the lead in the bottom of the sixth. The Falcons had four walks, one intentional walk and a hit batsmen to help them score five runs. BGSU had just two hits in the half-inning, a two-run single by Hunt and a two-run double by Elrod.
Reliever Neil Schmitz (1-1), who entered in the sixth, retired the side in order in the top of the seventh inning for the win. Hunt finished with four RBIs while Elrod had three. Renshaw was the only Marshall player with more than one hit (2-for-3). Brian Shade (3-2) picked up the loss for Marshall.
