Eastern Michigan Athletics
Friday, April 1
Bowling Green, Ohio
3 p.m.
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Matt Hitt
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EMU Baseball Uses Season-High 19 Hits in 13-11 Win Over BGSU
4/1/2011 11:47:12 PM | Baseball
Seven Eagles recorded multi-hit games as EMU tallied a season-high total for hits in itsfourth straight MAC win.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (EMUEagles.com) – Junior catcher Matt Hitt's career day led seven Eastern Michigan University baseball players to record multi-hit games as the Eagles outlasted a Bowling Green State University squad, which supplied a valiant ninth-inning comeback effort, 13-11, in game one of a Mid-American Conference cross-divisional series at Steller Field, Friday, April 1.
Hitt turned in a 4-for-5 day at the plate with three doubles, six RBI and a run scored from the eighth spot in the batting order. The Fishers, Ind. native doubled his RBI total entering the contest and helped the Eagles to a 4-0 start in league play.
Trailing 13-5 entering the bottom of the ninth, the Falcons pushed six runs across before Joe Battistelli came in to get the final two outs and his second save of the season.
Senior Robert Wendzicki pitched 5.1 innings in yet another strong start to pick up his second straight victory and move to 2-2 on the season. Cody Apthorpe lasted just 2.1 innings for BGSU as he took the loss to fall to 2-3 on the year.
The Eagles, who pounded out a season-high 19 hits, improve to 17-9 overall, 4-0 in the MAC, while the Falcons, who posted a 13-hit day, fall to 8-12 (2-2 MAC).
EMU jumped out to a quick 6-0 lead after three innings, chasing the BGSU starter out of the game in the process. Lee Longo accounted for the game's first run with an RBI double in the top of the first. Longo finished the day 3-for-4 with a two runs batted in.
After another run in the second, the Green and White then tallied four more in the third. The inning was highlighted by an RBI double by both Ben Magsig and Hitt to give the Eagles a 6-0 advantage.
The Falcons got two back in the fourth. The first came right off the bat with a leadoff homerun by Jon Berti, his second of the season, followed by Ryan Schlater's solo shot two batters later.
The deficit would shrink in half to 6-3 after Tim Combs plunked Matt Vannett with the bases loaded. The senior reliever would settle down to get the next two batters out to get out of the bases loaded jam without further damage.
After a four-run seventh ballooned the EMU lead to 10-3, the Eagles really blew the game wide open with a three-run ninth to make it 13-5 and left the Falcons just three outs to make up an eight-run deficit.
BGSU wouldn't go away quietly as they mounted a comeback that will have EMU reliever Kyle Peterson trying to forget the night rather quickly. The hard-throwing righty allowed all six runs on six hits, five of those hits coming in succession, before Battistelli came in to get the final two outs.
The Eagles survived a scare, but improve to 4-0 nonetheless for the first time since 2007. That year, EMU went on to become MAC West Division Champions, league regular season champions and it posted an impressive 21-4 league ledger.
The Eagles will look to go 5-0 tomorrow when senior Corey Chaffins takes the hill against BGSU right-hander Mike Bruns. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m. at Steller Field.
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (EMUEagles.com) – Junior catcher Matt Hitt's career day led seven Eastern Michigan University baseball players to record multi-hit games as the Eagles outlasted a Bowling Green State University squad, which supplied a valiant ninth-inning comeback effort, 13-11, in game one of a Mid-American Conference cross-divisional series at Steller Field, Friday, April 1.
Hitt turned in a 4-for-5 day at the plate with three doubles, six RBI and a run scored from the eighth spot in the batting order. The Fishers, Ind. native doubled his RBI total entering the contest and helped the Eagles to a 4-0 start in league play.
Trailing 13-5 entering the bottom of the ninth, the Falcons pushed six runs across before Joe Battistelli came in to get the final two outs and his second save of the season.
Senior Robert Wendzicki pitched 5.1 innings in yet another strong start to pick up his second straight victory and move to 2-2 on the season. Cody Apthorpe lasted just 2.1 innings for BGSU as he took the loss to fall to 2-3 on the year.
The Eagles, who pounded out a season-high 19 hits, improve to 17-9 overall, 4-0 in the MAC, while the Falcons, who posted a 13-hit day, fall to 8-12 (2-2 MAC).
EMU jumped out to a quick 6-0 lead after three innings, chasing the BGSU starter out of the game in the process. Lee Longo accounted for the game's first run with an RBI double in the top of the first. Longo finished the day 3-for-4 with a two runs batted in.
After another run in the second, the Green and White then tallied four more in the third. The inning was highlighted by an RBI double by both Ben Magsig and Hitt to give the Eagles a 6-0 advantage.
The Falcons got two back in the fourth. The first came right off the bat with a leadoff homerun by Jon Berti, his second of the season, followed by Ryan Schlater's solo shot two batters later.
The deficit would shrink in half to 6-3 after Tim Combs plunked Matt Vannett with the bases loaded. The senior reliever would settle down to get the next two batters out to get out of the bases loaded jam without further damage.
After a four-run seventh ballooned the EMU lead to 10-3, the Eagles really blew the game wide open with a three-run ninth to make it 13-5 and left the Falcons just three outs to make up an eight-run deficit.
BGSU wouldn't go away quietly as they mounted a comeback that will have EMU reliever Kyle Peterson trying to forget the night rather quickly. The hard-throwing righty allowed all six runs on six hits, five of those hits coming in succession, before Battistelli came in to get the final two outs.
The Eagles survived a scare, but improve to 4-0 nonetheless for the first time since 2007. That year, EMU went on to become MAC West Division Champions, league regular season champions and it posted an impressive 21-4 league ledger.
The Eagles will look to go 5-0 tomorrow when senior Corey Chaffins takes the hill against BGSU right-hander Mike Bruns. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m. at Steller Field.
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