Bowling Green State University
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Oakland Defeats BGSU, 9-5
May 12, 2004 | Baseball
May 12, 2004
Bowling Green, Ohio - Oakland pounded out 15 hits and scored five runs over the final two innings to defeat Bowling Green Wednesday afternoon at Warren Steller Field, 9-5. The Grizzlies plated three runs in the eighth and two runs in the ninth for the win.
Each team plated a run in the first inning. Eric Lawson led off for BGSU and got all the way to third base via an error by the left fielder. Jeff Warnock promptly brought him home on a sacrifice fly to knot the game at 1-1.
The Falcons went on to score a run in the second, third, and fifth innings for a 4-1 lead. Bobby Majer singled home Jimmy Lipari in the second inning, Nolan Reimold singled home Warnock in the third inning, and Josh Stewart singled home Warnock in the fifth inning.
Oakland tied the game up in the sixth inning with three runs, two coming off of a home run by John Sullivan, for a 4-4 ballgame.
BGSU regained the lead in the seventh, 5-4, with a run via a Reimold groundout to the shortstop in which Warnock scored all the way from second base. However, the Grizzlies crossed three runners in the eighth inning off of reliever Neil Schmitz and another two in the ninth off of Matt Hundley (Ty Herriott two-run home run).
Schmitz (3-3) suffered the loss while OU's Scott Boleski (1-1) earned the win. Kyle Boehm picked up his third save of the year.
BGSU used eight different pitchers in the game with starter Greg Becker going the longest (two innings) with three hits, one run given up, and two walks.
Warnock (3-for-3, three runs scored) and Lipari (3-for-4, one run scored) each had three base hits while Stewart (2-for-3), Reimold (2-for-4) and Majer (2-for-4) each had a pair.
The Falcons fall to 25-15 overall while Oakland is now 18-28 overall.
BGSU returns to Mid-American Conference action this weekend with an important three-game series at rival Toledo (May 14-16). Friday's game at Scott Park begins at 3 p.m.
