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Bowling Green State University
MIAMI (OH)
Falcon Baseball Drops 10-Inning Contest, 5-4
April 28, 2006 | Baseball
April 28, 2006
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University baseball team lost a heartbreaker Friday afternoon, a 5-4 defeat in 10 innings against Miami. The Falcons drop to 22-18 overall and 9-7 in conference play.
It looked good early as Junior Josh Stewart and Senior Tyler Wasserman recorded back-to-back, two-out hits in the first to give BGSU a 1-0 lead. The previous 11 home games in which Bowling Green had scored at least one first-inning run, they went on to win. Unfortunately, that streak ended on Friday.
The series opener was so closely contested that neither team held a lead greater than one run at any point, exchanging one-run innings throughout the game.
After a ninth-inning RedHawk run gave them a 5-4 advantage, Junior Eric Lawson opened the home-half of the ninth with a single up the middle. However, Lawson's single was followed by a double play. With two outs and trailing by one run, Stewart belted a no-doubt homerun over the left field wall to force extra innings.
With the bases loaded and two outs in the tenth, Sophomore Nick Cantrell was able to get Geoff Orr to hit a grounder, but a Falcon fielding error allowed Orr to reach safely and handed Miami a 5-4 lead.
Freshman Brandon McFarland roped a pitch into right center for a double in the tenth before being left stranded to end the game.
BGSU and the RedHawks do it again tomorrow afternoon at 1 PM inside Warren Steller Field.
