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Baseball Takes Home Opener, 8-5
March 22, 2006 | Baseball
March 22, 2006
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - Bowling Green (8-8) compiled 14 hits in an 8-5 win over Oakland. Freshman Brian Hangbers (1-1) picked up the first win of his Falcon career while Junior Kurt Wells secured the victory and earned the save.
The Falcons wasted little time scoring their first run at Warren Steller field this season, etching a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first after an RBI-single by Tyler Wasserman.
The good times kept coming for BGSU as Sophomore Andrew Foster started the second inning with a single up the middle. After a walk by Junior Josh Dietz pushed Foster to second, Freshman Greg Feldkamp singled through the right side of the infield to pick up his sixth RBI of the season. Runs batted in by Freshman Ryan Shay and Wells inflated the Falcon lead to 4-0 after two frames.
BGSU and the Golden Grizzlies exchanged lone runs during the next two innings, making the score 5-1 heading into the fifth. Then Junior Jeff Telmanik pinch hit for Feldkamp in the home-half of the fifth and delivered a single to center field, driving home two runs to give the Falcons a 7-1 advantage.
Oakland was back in the game after a pair of Bowling Green fielding errors allowed the Grizzlies to score four unearned runs in the sixth, gashing the Falcon lead to just two runs at 7-5.
In the seventh, Foster added an insurance run by scoring his third run of the afternoon off an RBI-single by Dietz.
Wells, who started in center field and tallied two RBI, came in to pitch the ninth and secured the Falcon victory, 8-5.
Eight different Falcon hurlers combined for the four-hitter, allowing just one earned run. Shay had one his best days as a Falcon thus far, going 2-for-4 with an RBI and run scored.
Bowling Green begins Mid-American Conference play this weekend in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The Falcons and Eastern Michigan will match-up on Friday, March 24 at 3:00 PM.
