Bowling Green State University
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Buffalo Upends Falcons, 3-2
April 09, 2004 | Baseball
April 9, 2004
Buffalo, N.Y. - One run proved to be the difference as host Buffalo plated one extra player for a 3-2 victory over visiting Bowling Green on Friday afternoon in Buffalo, N.Y. The Falcons were held to four hits while the Bulls knocked out 10 hits.
The Falcons got on the board first in the second inning when sophomore Nolan Reimold led off with his fourth homer of the season, a solo-blast to left field, for a 1-0 BGSU lead. UB came right back and tied the game in the bottom of the second inning with a David Amaro RBI-single.
The score stayed knotted at 1-1 until the seventh inning. Jeff Warnock led off with a walk and moved to second base when Tyler Wasserman beat out a sacrifice bunt. Jimmy Lipari then laid down a sacrifice bunt to put runners on second and third with just one out. David Barkholz grounded out to second base, scoring Warnock, for a 2-1 Falcon edge. After Eric Lawson was hit by a pitch, Andy Hudak fouled out to the first baseman to end the inning.
In the bottom of the seventh the Bulls plated two runs to take its first lead of the game, 3-2. Dave Brozyna entered in the eighth and held the lead for Buffalo, allowing no hits and no runs on two strikeouts over the final two innings.
Junior Tyler Saneholtz (3-2) suffered the loss for the Falcons, pitching eight innings and allowing just three runs with one walk and two strikeouts. BGSU stranded eight runners while Buffalo left six on base.
Reimold finished 2-for-4 while Barkholz and Warnock were the only other Falcons with hits.
BGSU drops to 14-7 overall and 3-4 in the Mid-American Conference. UB improves to 7-18 overall and 1-2 in the league. The two teams will play on Saturday afternoon in the second game of a three-game series at 1 p.m.
