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EMU Topped By West Virginia, 4-0
3/19/2010 5:30:10 PM | Baseball
Eagles manage just five hits in the loss and are shut out for the first time this season
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MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (EMUEagles.com) – For the first time this season, the Eastern Michigan University baseball team was held scoreless through nine innings, as the West Virginia University Mountaineers topped the Eagles, 4-0, on Friday afternoon, March 19, at Hawley Field.
The Eagles have dropped four games in-a-row and fall to 5-11 with the loss, while the Mountaineers move to 8-9 with the victory.
The Eagles managed only five hits in the loss and were shut out for the first time since a 1-0 seven inning loss on May 5 of last season to Oakland University. The last time EMU was held scoreless through nine innings was March 8, 2009, when the team fell, 10-0, to Louisiana Tech University.
Junior pitcher Corey Chaffins (New London, Ohio-New London) took the loss for the Eagles, his first of the season. Chaffins (2-1) pitched a complete game, giving up four runs on seven hits and two walks, while striking out five batters.
True freshman Daniel Russell (Grandville, Mich.-Grandville) had a team-best two hits on the afternoon, as he finished 2-for-4 at the plate.
West Virginia put the first runs on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth, as Matt Malloy hit a two-out solo home run over the left field wall to break the scoreless tie and make it a 1-0 game. The Mountaineers added to their lead an inning later, tacking on three more runs to put the Eagles down, 4-0.
EMU threatened in the top of the ninth to put a pair of runners on base with one out, but the Mountaineers ended the game with a double play to take game one of the four-game series.
EMU and WVU play a doubleheader at Hawley Field tomorrow, March 20, with game one beginning at 1 p.m.
