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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Bowling Green State University
EASTERN KENTUCKY
BGSU Defeats Colonels, 18-6
May 03, 2002 | Baseball
May 3, 2002
Bowling Green, Ohio - Bowling Green pounded out a season-high 23 hits, including eight for extra bases, en route to a 18-6 defeat of visiting Eastern Kentucky on Friday afternoon at Warren Steller Field. The game was a non-league contest for both teams.
BG scored in every inning but the second to notch its 21st win of the season.
EKU (14-30) held its only lead of the game in the first inning when Neil Sellers' single to center field scored Josh Anderson for a 1-0 Colonels lead. BG pitcher Kyle Knoblauch got Chris Clark to ground into a inning-ending double play with two men on to end the EKU threat, though.
The Falcon offense went to work in the bottom-half of the first inning. David Barkholz led off with a single to left field then moved to third on a double by Tim Newell, his team-leading 15th of the season. Second baseman Corey Loomis then roped a single to right-center field plating both runners and giving BG the lead for good, 2-1. One out later, Nick Elrod doubled to left-center field to score Loomis and give the Falcons a 3-1 lead after one inning.
Two more runs crossed home plate in the third thanks to an RBI-double by Len Elias, scoring Elrod, and an RBI-single by Andy Hudak, scoring Elias, for a 5-1 lead.
Loomis smacked a solo home run in the fourth inning (10th of the season) before BG put the game out of reach in the fifth inning with four runs and pushing its lead to 10-1.
A EKU run in the sixth, as well as one by BG in the sixth and seventh innings, made the lead 12-2.
A grand slam by EKU's Chris Clark in the eighth inning chased Knoblauch and moved the visitors to within six, 12-6. Reliever Ryan Lindquist entered and didn't allow another run by Eastern Kentucky.
Meanwhile, BG pushed the lead ahead with six runs in the bottom of the eighth inning thanks to five hits and a Colonels error. An RBI-single by Barkholz and two-RBI single by Newell preceeded a three-run homer by Elias, his fifth of the season, for the final 18-6 verdict.
Elias ended with a team-high four RBIs while Newell, Loomis and Elrod each contributed three runs-batted-in apiece. Elrod was a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate and contributed with Loomis to turn three double plays in the game.
Knoblauch moved to 4-1 on the season with the win, pitching seven and one-third innings, giving up six hits and six runs (grand slam), with four walks and three strikeouts. Lindquist allowed just one hit and one walk in one and two-thirds of an inning.
BG (21-19 overall) ends its series with Eastern Kentucky on Saturday with a doubleheader at 1 p.m. Both games are scheduled for seven innings at Warren Steller Field.
