Bowling Green State University Athletics
BGSU Takes Doubleheader from Marshall, 9-8 & 6-4
April 20, 2002 | Baseball
April 20, 2002
Bowling Green, Ohio - Bowling Green rallied for a 9-8 victory in game one and held on for a 6-4 decision in the nightcap to complete a doubleheader sweep over visiting Marshall University on Saturday at Warren Steller Field.
The wins gave BGSU a four-game winning streak and moved them to .500 for the first time this season (16-16 overall).
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.
Runs were scored more proportionately in game two of the doubleheader. Marshall went ahead in the second inning with an RBI-single from Renshaw, 1-0. MU scored two more in the third inning off of a sacrifice fly by Matt White, and when David Colangelo came home on a throwing error by Loomis, for a 3-0 lead.
An RBI-single by Loomis in the home-half of the third cut into Marshall's lead and a three-run homer by Andy Hudak in the fourth inning gave the Falcons the lead, 4-3.
The Herd thundered back, though, tying the score in the top of the fifth inning via a sacrifice fly to right field by Clay DeSantis, 4-4. That would be all Marshall scored, however, as BGSU scored the go-ahead run in the bottom of the fifth and an insurance run in the eighth. Loomis hit his second triple of the day in the fifth inning and scored on a Hunt single, then Hunt was part of a double steal in the eighth and came home on a wild pitch.
BGSU starter Tyler Saneholtz (3-1) went eight innings for the win. He scattered nine hits (one double), allowed four runs (two earned), while walking two and striking out four. Neil Schmitz picked up his fifth save of the season by pitching a perfect ninth inning (two strikeouts). Marshall's Grant Harper (2-5) picked up the loss.
BGSU (16-16 overall, 7-5 MAC) concludes its home series with Marshall (13-20 overall, 4-6 MAC) on Sunday at 1 p.m.
