Eastern Michigan Athletics
Eastern Michigan University
Louisville
Baseball Rolls Past Louisville, 9-2
3/2/2006 7:09:36 PM | Baseball
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
– The Eastern Michigan University baseball team cruised past Louisville, 9-2, Thursday afternoon at Jim Patterson Stadium behind the arm of junior George Biddle (1-1). Biddle was brilliant on the mound pitching eight innings of scoreless work tallying four strikeouts while only giving up four hits out of 35 batters faced.With the win, the Eagles improve to 3-5 on the season while the Cardinals fall to 2-7 overall.
Eastern Michigan tallied 15 total hits and were led offensively by sophomore Jeff Davis and junior Derek Lehrman. Davis went 3-for-5 from the plate with three runs scored with Lehrman going 3-for-5 with one RBI and two runs scored. Sophomore Steve Bradshaw also went 2-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored. Louisville was led by Derrick Alfonso who hit 2-for-4 with one run scored. Freshman Aaron Powell also added his second homerun of the season on a solo shot in the eighth inning.
The game was scoreless throughout the first four innings before EMU got things going with a Trumaine Riley single up the middle to score Lehrman from third for 1-0 lead. The Eagles kept the pressure on adding three more runs behind RBI from Kyle Road and Bradshaw increasing its lead to 4-0.
EMU added a run in the seventh, as Davis scored on a wild pitch, along with two more in both the eighth and ninth innings for a commanding 9-0 advantage. The Eagles were unable to preserve the shutout as the Cardinals got two runs in the bottom of the ninth for a 9-2 final.
The second game of the four game series between EMU and Louisville is set for Friday, March 3, at 3 p.m.
