Bowling Green State University Athletics
Bowling Green State University
Wright State
BGSU Pounds WSU Tues., Host Michigan State Wed. Afternoon
March 27, 2007 | Baseball
March 27, 2007
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University baseball team banged out 11 runs on 17 hits in route to a road win at Wright State, 11-1. Sophomore Marty Baird earned the win by allowing a lone run in 5.0 innings pitched. Senior Adam Gumpf finished off the game by working the mound for the final four innings and picking up the save
Baird thwarted a Wright State scoring opportunity in the first by fooling Nick Alsop, striking him out looking. Baird fanned six Raiders through the first three innings of the ball game.
Senior Jeff Telmanik sent a pitch right back up the middle for an inning-opening single in the top of the second. A batter later, Junior Andrew Foster handed the Falcons a lead with a two-run bomb down the left-field line.
BGSU notched two more scores the following inning. Senior Eric Lawson wasted little time, hitting the first pitch he saw into left-center field for a two-base hit. Senior Kurt Wells then reached on fielder's choice after a successful bunt pushed Lawson to third base. Sophomore Ryan Shay followed with an RBI-single through the left side of the infield, scoring Lawson. The 6-foot-4, 215 pound Senior Josh Dietz laid down a sacrifice bunt to advance both runners into scoring position. Telmanik delivered the Falcons fourth run with a sacrifice fly into left field, but the inning was ended when got cut in a pickle between second and third base for out number three.
Lawson recorded his first homerun of the season, a solo shot in the fifth inning to give BGSU a 5-0 edge. Wright State trimmed the lead back to four runs in the home-half of the inning with a solo homerun of their own.
The Brown and Orange blew things wide open in a six-run seventh inning. Pitching follies by the Raiders early in the inning, including three wild pitches, a walk, a hit batsman and a passed ball, set Bowling Green up with a run scored and a runner on third base with no outs. The Falcons rode the momentum, cycling runners around the base path with a total of five hits in the inning.
Bowling Green hosts Michigan State Wednesday afternoon at Warren E. Steller Field. First pitch is scheduled for 2 PM.
