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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Head to Kalamazoo With a MAC Tournament Berth on the Line
May 19, 2005 | Baseball
May 19, 2005
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It Comes Down to This
BGSU travels to Western Michigan this weekend (May 20-22) for a three-game series that will decide whether the Falcons earn a bid to the Mid-American Conference Tournament next week, May 25-28. BGSU currently sits in fourth place in the West Division with a 11-7 record, one-half game back of WMU (12-7). With two victories the Falcons will guarantee themselves a spot in its first MAC Tournament since 2002 when they won the regular-season championship. Just one win vs. the Broncos and BGSU will be hoping for either Kent State (vs. Miami) or Akron (vs. Ohio) to win just one game in their series.
BGSU vs. Western Michigan
The Falcons trail the all-time series, 49-67-0, vs. WMU. These two teams met in the last week of the 2004 season with BGSU taking two-of-three at Warren Steller Field. In 2003, WMU took three-of-four in Bowling Green.
JR Nolan Reimold Makes It a Hat Trick
JR Nolan Reimold earned honors from the MAC for the third time this season when he was named MAC West Co-Player of the Week on May 16. The right fielder smacked four home runs in a three-game series vs. Toledo last weekend and drove in a school-record tying eight RBIs on Friday, May 13. That game included a two-run homer and a grand slam by Reimold.
Nolan Reimold Does It Again
JR Nolan Reimold homered in his fourth-straight game on Tuesday, May 17, at Michigan. His two-run blast gave him 19 home runs on the season, three away from the single-season school record set by Kelly Hunt in 2002 (22). Hunt is the last BGSU player to homer in five-straight games. Reimold is fifth nationally in home runs per game (.41 pg), eighth nationally with a .772 slugging pct., and 20th nationally with 1.28 runs-batted-in per game.
Killer "Bs" - Badenhop and Brech
SR Burke Badenhop (9-2) and SO Alan Brech (7-1) have combined for half of BGSU's 32 victories this season. Badenhop's nine wins lead the MAC and are the most by a Falcon pitcher since Jason Kelley's school-record 12 wins in 1999. His 69.2 IPP and two complete games are a career-high and lead the Falcons, while his 55 strikeouts ties a career-high. His 3.75 ERA is third best on the BGSU staff. Brech leads the Falcons with a 3.19 ERA and 58 strikeouts. The southpaw is 4-0 with a 2.89 ERA in MAC play.
Hudak Making His Way Up the Record Books
SR Andy Hudak (Toledo, Ohio) is among the top-10 hitters all-time at BGSU in eight different categories, including RBIs (4th, 158), doubles (4th, 44), career batting avg. (5th, .373), total bases (6th, 334), runs scored (6th, 150), hits (8th, 206), base-on-balls (8th, 99), and career home runs (T-9th, 26).
Lawson's Streak
SO Eric Lawson has hit in 20 of his last 23 games with streaks of nine and eight games. Over that stretch he is batting a team-best .420 with 34 hits, 13 doubles, one triple, one home run, .642 slugging pct., and .495 on-base pct. The second baseman leads the Falcons with a .361 avg. and eight doubles in MAC play. Overall, he leads the team with 16 doubles and is third on the team in batting avg. (.352), runs (44), hits (56), and on-base pct. (.461).
