Bowling Green State University Athletics
Bowling Green State University
Murray State
Baseball Begins Season With a Bang
February 25, 2006 | Baseball
Bowling Green wasted little time lighting the scoreboard, posting three runs in the opening inning. Even more impressive is the fact that the Brown and Orange rang up the trio of runs all with two outs after back-to-back Falcon groundouts started the game. Junior captain Eric Lawson was the first of five consecutive batters to record a single for Bowling Green, netting the three runs.
Junior Alan Brech compiled three strikeouts in just three innings while not allowing a hit. However, the south-paw was on a three-inning pitch count and turned it over to the bullpen early. The `Breds took advantage of his absence by knotting the score at 3-3 in the bottom of the fourth inning.
BGSU regained the lead with a pair of runs in the fifth. The Falcons started the inning back at the top of the batting order with Senior lead-off hitter Dash Yost hitting a single to right-center. After a sacrifice bunt and a Murray State throwing error advanced Yost to third, Senior Tyler Wasserman recorded the first of his two RBI with a single that drove Yost home. A second throwing error by the `Breds allowed Bowling Green to tack on the second run. Wasserman paced the Falcons with three hits in the contest.
It was déjà vu for the Falcons in the seventh, as Yost once again led off the inning with a single and later was driven in by Wasserman. Junior Josh Stewart sent Wasserman home with an RBI-double to extend the Falcons lead to 7-3.
Murray State responded in the home-half of the inning by trimming the deficit to one run. A sacrifice bunt by Jason Payton tied the game at 7-7 in the bottom of the ninth, forcing extra innings.
A sacrifice fly by Yost in the top of the tenth inning gave the Falcons an 8-7 lead heading into the bottom of the inning. Murray State gave BGSU a scare by advancing a baserunner to third. However, Sophomore Nick Cantrell ended the rally and picked up the win.
Bowling Green lit the scoreboard in the first inning to start game-two as well, this time it was all they would need. A Stewart RBI that scored Freshman Kevin Leady gave the Falcons the lone run of the second game.
Senior Tyler Saneholtz (1-0) got the win, allowing one hit, striking out one and walking two in 3-2/3 innings. Louisville transfer, Brian Hangbers, got his first save, allowing no hits, striking out three and walking two in 3-1/3 innings.
The Brown and Orange top off the three-game series Sunday (Feb. 26) at noon in Reagan Field.
