Falcons Continue To ‘Roll Along’; Defeat Dayton, 6-3

Tuesday, April 20

Bowling Green, Ohio

3:00 p.m.

Bowling Green State University

University of Dayton

April 20, 2010 | Baseball

By: by Ryan Gasser, Athletic Communications Graduate Assistant

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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- The Falcons scored in four consecutive innings and extended their current winning streak to four games after their 6-3 win over the Dayton Flyers on Tuesday evening. Mark Galvin extended his career-long hit streak to ten games while Jon Berti led the way, scoring three times and swiping two bases in the Falcon win. Overshadowing all of the team's accomplishments was freshman starting pitcher, Cody Apthorpe, who earned his first collegiate win after his longest outing of the season.

The Bowling Green offensive outburst in the third inning solidified the win when the Falcons scored two runs with no outs and finished the frame scoring three times, adding to their 2-0 lead. Berti hit a long fly ball that rolled around in the right field corner leading to a stand-up, leadoff triple. Brandon McFarland, who earned his third start of the season at designated hitter, doubled into the left center field gap to plate Berti and make it a 3-0 game in favor of the Brown and Orange. After a single from Clay Duncan put runners at the corners, left fielder David Borcherdt singled in another run with a base hit up the middle. Matthew Pitzulo recorded an RBI in his third consecutive game with a RBI single to center field, increase the Falcon lead to five.

After Bowling Green pushed across its sixth run of the game in the fifth inning, Dayton began a small comeback but only halved the Falcon lead with a two-run seventh. Both runs came unearned in the inning after an error extended the inning, allowing a pair of runs to score.

Apthorpe earned his first win wearing brown and orange after throwing 6.2 innings, his longest outing of his young career, and added three strikeouts while four-hitting the Flyers. After allowed both unearned runs in the seventh inning, he surrendered the Falcons' 6-3 lead to Charles Wooten. Wooten tossed 2.1 innings of two-hit baseball allowing no runs while earning the long save, his third of the season.

Four Falcons had two hits on the day and five recorded RBIs. Clay Duncan went 2-for-2 with a pair of RBI while right fielder Mark Galvin hit 2-for-3, extending his career-high and current active team-high ten game hit streak. With the team's 12 hits on the day, the Falcons have now recorded at least ten hits in seven of their last eight games.

Bowling Green extends its win streak to a season-high four games and its overall record now stands at 14-18-1. BGSU will now prepare for a showdown against MAC-west foe Western Michigan in a non-conference game Wednesday with a 3 p.m. first pitch.

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