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Falcons Drop Doubleheader
April 08, 2007 | Baseball
April 8, 2007
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University baseball team fell victim to a doubleheader sweep by the hands of the Central Michigan Chippewas Sunday afternoon.
GAME ONE RECAP
Despite another strong performance from the Falcon pitching staff, Bowling Green dropped a 3-1 decision to the Chippewas. With a sputtering offensive attack, Junior Nick Cantrell and Senior Adam Gumpf continued to provide clutch pitching, stranding 13 CMU baserunners. Cantrell worked the mound for the first five innings before giving way to Gumpf, who hurled four scoreless innings.
In the bottom of the first inning, Sophomore Ryan Shay drew a walk and then looked to be picked off at first base. Head Coach Danny Schmitz argued that the pitcher balked and after a short meeting, the umpires agreed, forcing both teams to come back out from their respective dugouts with Shay at second base. Unfortunately, the Falcons failed to take advantage as the next batter sent a pitch to deep center field, but was ran down by the CMU center-fielder for the long fly ball.
Central Michigan's Noah Lankford recorded his second homerun in as many games in the top of the second. CMU then added two more scores in the fourth inning to take a three run advantage. Cantrell struck out CMU's Ben Humphrey with the high heat in a two-out, bases-loaded situation to end the scoring threat.
Shay reached first base again in home-half of the fourth with another free pass. Next up was Sophomore Marty Baird, and he connected on an RBI-double into the left-center field gap. Senior Jeff Telmanik capped off Bowling Green's hitting with a single in the bottom of the ninth before the Falcons eventually fell 3-1.
GAME TWO RECAP
The Brown and Orange struck first in the second game, putting a two-spot on the scoreboard in the third inning. Shay continued his strong day with a shot up the middle, good for a two-RBI single. CMU responded immediately in the next half inning, pushing five runs across the plate to take a 5-2 advantage.
The bases were full of Falcons with no outs in to begin the bottom of the fourth following back-to-back singles and a walk. Bowling Green's back-stop, Senior Mike Barnard, delivered a sacrifice fly for BGSU's third run of the contest. The scoring threat was then thwarted by the Chippewas' hurler as he retired the next two hitters.
The runs continued to come in the top of the fifth as Central Michigan managed to post three scores, leading 8-3 after four and a half innings. Each squad added one more run late in the game to produce the 9-4 score before the Chippewas tacked on five more runs in the ninth to produce a 14-4 score.
Sophomore Bryan Simon smacked his first career homer in the bottom of the ninth before the Falcons eventually lost, 14-6.
Bowling Green gets two days off before traveling to Notre Dame to take on the Fighting Irish on Wednesday, April 11th. The Falcons snapped Notre Dame's 23-game winning streak with an 11-8 victory last season at Frank Eck Stadium.
