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Falcons Drop Two to Eastern Michigan on Saturday, 3-2 and 13-11
March 29, 2003 | Baseball
March 29, 2003
Bowling Green, Ohio - Bowling Green lost 3-2 against Eastern Michigan in a completion of a game started on Friday night in Ypsilanti, Mich., and dropped a 13-11 decision in the second game played Saturday afternoon. Both games were played at Warren Steller Field.
Game one on Saturday resumed in the bottom of the third inning with EMU holding a 2-0 lead. Kyle Knoblauch had started the game on the mound for BGSU on Friday night, but sophomore Tyler Saneholtz took over in the bottom of the third inning with one out and two Eagle runners on base.
Saneholtz retired the first two batters he faced and allowed one run in the fourth inning. The right-hander allowed just two hits over the final four innings he pitched, allowing one run on four hits, four walks and three strikeouts in five and two-third innings of work.
BGSU started a comeback in the fifth inning with three consecutive singles to load the bases with one out. The Falcons then scored via a sacrifice fly by David Barkholz to score Nate Henschen.
The Falcons added another run in the top of the sixth inning when Nolan Reimold reached on a single, stole second base, and then scored off of a RBI-single from Kelly Hunt, cutting EMU's lead to 3-2. Kevin Longstreth then doubled to put runners on second and third base, but BGSU did not score another run.
Both teams stranded 10 runners in the one-run EMU victory. Knoblauch suffered the loss, dropping to 1-2 on the season despite having a 0.00 ERA over 23.1 innings pitched this season. Both Hunt and Reimold had three hits in the game.
In the second game played on Saturday, which was a seven-inning affair originally scheduled as the first game of a doubleheader, the Falcons scored nine runs in the first three innings to take a 9-2 lead. EMU, however, scored in the final six innings of the game for the 13-11, comeback victory.
BGSU scored its first run off of an RBI-single by Hunt in the first inning. The Falcons then scored five runs off of five hits in the second inning, including a bases-clearing triple by freshman Josh Baughman. EMU scored its first two runs in the top of the third inning before BGSU scored three more runs in the bottom of the third frame, two coming thanks to a two-run single by Hunt, for its 9-2 lead.
David Barkholz hit a solo home run in the fifth inning, followed by a sacrifice fly by Jeff Warnock, to give BGSU a 11-4 lead after five innings.
EMU scored a run in both the fourth and fifth innings, three in the sixth inning and four in the top of the seventh inning to tie the game at 11-11. Then the Eagles plated the go-ahead two runs in the top of the eighth inning.
Falcon reliever Neil Schmitz suffered the loss, pitching one and one third innings, allowing four runs (two earned), with three walks and two strikeouts.
BGSU fell to 4-10 overall and 2-2 in the Mid-American Conference while EMU improved to 5-10 overall and 2-0 in the MAC.
Kelly Hunt finished 5-for-6 in the two games with four RBI and three walks.
The two teams will play a doubleheader at 12 noon on Sunday back in Ypsilanti, Mich. The first game will be a seven-inning contest with the nightcap being a nine-inning game.
