Bowling Green State University
BUFFALO
Baseball Snatches 9-7 Victory Over UB
May 12, 2007 | Baseball
May 12, 2007
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University baseball team fended off a ninth-inning surge to hold on for a 9-7 victory at Warren Steller Field Saturday afternoon. Senior Kurt Wells ballooned his season batting average to .347 by going 3-for-4 with RBI on the day.
BGSU jumped ahead early with three scores in the third inning. Senior Mike Barnard, the team's best bunter, did just that for a successful infield, bunt single to begin the third. Three consecutive walks handed the Falcons a 1-0 lead. Junior Andrew Foster then delivered a two-out single into right center field for a pair of RBI.
Buffalo responded immediately, plating two runs the following half-inning. Both scores were unearned, however, due to a dropped foul ball that would have been the third and final out of the inning.
Senior Jeff Telmanik stepped into the box as a pinch hitter to start the home-half of the fourth. The Anthony Wayne High School Product drove a pitch through the left side of the infield before advancing to second base on another perfectly-placed bunt by Barnard. Freshman Logan Meisler pushed Telmanik the final 180 feet to home plate with a single down the right field line. BGSU held a 4-2 lead after four frames.
Wells and Foster each tallied run-scoring at bats once again in the Falcons' four-run seventh inning. Foster's was a nicely executed sacrifice squeeze. Freshman Derek Spencer was responsible for the other two runs, swatting a two RBI-double into left field. Wells drove in yet another run in the eighth to give the Brown and Orange a 9-2 lead heading into the ninth.
UB would not go away quietly into the night, recording six hits and five runs to cut the lead to 9-7. With the winning run at the plate, Head Coach Danny Schmitz called upon Senior Adam Gumpf to make the trip from the bullpen to the mound. Gumpf fooled Buffalo's Shivam Bhan on strike three to end the rally and secure the Falcon victory.
This series rubber game is scheduled for Sunday afternoon at 1 PM.
