Bowling Green State University
FINDLAY
Falcons Win Non-League Game With Findlay
March 24, 2009 | Baseball
March 24, 2009
BOWLNG GREEN, OHIO - The Bowling Green State University baseball team scored in every inning except one on their way to a 10-5 nonconference win over Findlay Tuesday afternoon at Steller Field. BG never scored more than two runs in any inning, but did put at least one run on the board in every frame except the seventh.
The Falcons used four different pitchers in the game and 17 different players in the field and at the plate. Sophomore Charles Wooten started and picked up his second career victory going two innings on a predetermined pitch count while freshman Steven Barrett retired all six batters he faced in the final two innings of his first appearance of the season to get the save.
Barrett entered the game with no outs and one run in for the Oilers, and the bases loaded. The Falcons had a 9-4 lead at the time. He proceeded to stop the rally getting a strikeout, a ground out, that scored a run, and a fly out. In the ninth, the Troy, Mich. native induced a fly out and a ground out sandwiched around a strike out.
Freshman Kacy Dwornik (2.0 innings) and Phil Hettlinger (2.1 innings) also pitched for Bowling Green.
The Falcons, who are now 8-11 on the season, had eight different players drive in a run and eight different player collect at least one hit. The Falcons stranded 15 runners in the game as Findlay pitchers issued 13 walks and the Oilers were guilty of five errors in addition to BG's 10 hits.
Senior shortstop Ryan Shay collected two hits, as did junior outfielder Mark Galvin. Both also had an RBI.
The Falcons scored a run in the first when junior Clay Duncan walked to force in the first run of the game. Freshman center fielder Patrick Martin singled in the only run of the second inning and the Falcons struck twice in the third inning on an RBI single by senior second baseman Ryan Price and a sacrifice fly from junior outfielder David Borcherdt.
BG scored twice in the fourth inning to make it 6-2 on an RBI triple by Galvin, who extended his hitting streak to a career-best nine games with his two hits, and a wild pitch that allowed Galvin to score.
Bowling Green scored a single run in the fifth on a RBI double by Shay, and twice in the sixth to make it 9-3 on consecutive walks that forced in a run and a sacrifice fly by junior Logan Meisler. Bowling Green scored its last run in the eighth inning on another wild pitch by Findlay.
The Falcons left the bases loaded in the first, fifth and sixth innings and left two runners stranded in two other innings.
Junior Tyler Elkins saw his 13-game hitting streak come to an end when failed to get a hit in four at-bats. Elkins, who leads the team hitting .418, did not get the ball out of the infield in any of his five plate appearances. Elkins hit .466 (27-of-58) during his hitting streak with nine RBI and 14 runs scored.
Findlay dropped to 3-14 with the loss.
The Falcons have another nonconference home game tomorrow (Wednesday) against Cleveland State at Steller Field before hitting the road for the first time in Mid-American Conference play against Northern Illinois this weekend, who swept Buffalo in their first weekend of league action.
