 12
is SU's Magic Number Again as Mountaineers Win
First Game, Sweep LC
Photo: Senior Oliver Stogsdill homered in
the fourth inning of Saturday's first game.
For the second time in less than a day,
Schreiner rallied from a big early deficit,
scored 12 runs in the game and won, 12-10,
against visiting Louisiana in the first game of
a doubleheader. In the second game,
freshman Marcus Myhaver's bunt single in the
bottom of the 9th scored the winning run as SU
outlasted the Wildcats, 17-16. Ironically,
Schreiner (6-7) is 4-0 in games when the
Mountaineers score exactly 12 runs.
Despite extremely windy conditions, the first
couple innings of the first game were played
with a modest amount of scoring. SU junior
starter Colton Hermes was solid through his
first three innings and the score was tied 2-2
going into the fourth. That's when things
got interesting. Hermes gave up five hits
in the inning and was replaced by sophomore
Michael Houser. Houser got out of the
inning without further damage but the
Mountaineers still trailed Louisiana College
(5-8) 7-2 at that point. Schreiner's bats
answered in their half of the fourth.
Myhaver and senior Oliver Stogsdill each hit two
run homers and senior Ray Martinez also drove in
a run as SU tied the score at 7-all.
Houser ran into trouble in the fifth and was
replaced by freshman Korey Rose but not before
giving up two doubles and a single which scored
two more runs.
In the bottom of the fifth, Schreiner took a
lead it would hold thanks to Rose's pitching.
Three straight batters (juniors Eric Crenwelge
and J.D. Escobar, and Martinez) walked to
start the inning. All three runners
scored. Crenwelge scored on a wild pitch,
Escobar scored on Myhaver's RBI groundout and
Martinez scored on Rose's SAC fly.
Rose (2-1) was strong again on the mound and
earned the win by going the final 2-1/3 innings,
giving up one run and only two hits while
striking out three. Myhaver, in addition
to hitting his first collegiate home run, drove
in four and scored twice. Stogsdill and
senior Richard Sanchez also had two hits.
In the second game, there were a lot of big
numbers early in the game. SU hung eight
runs on the Wildcats in the first but saw LC
post back-to-back six run innings off SU
freshman starter Matt Valley. Valley was
only charged with five earned runs as SU errors
allowed six more runners to score. Still,
SU trailed 14-9, before rallying in the fourth
for six runs. Schreiner's reliever Brandon
Pape did a great job in the middle innings
shutting out the Cats. He went 5-1/3
innings allowing only two runs and four hits.
He was in position for the win when he left
after the eighth inning. Senior A.J. Mann
allowed the tying run in the top of the ninth.
In their frame, SU loaded the bases with none
out when Myhaver perfectly executed a suicide
squeeze to plate the winning run.
Myhaver had a
career on Saturday. He was 7-for-11 at the
plate, drove in 9 runs and scored four more.
Martinez has quietly been even better over the
past week. He's been an opposing pitcher's
nightmare in the past four games, going
10-for-13 and adding 9 walks. He's been on
base 19 of the last 22 times he's gone to bat
and scored 10 runs. Crenwelge went 3-for-5
with four RBI in the second game. |
