Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Cavs split with MATC-Milwaukee

The Western Baseball team split a doubleheader with conference rival MATC-Milwaukee today, winning the first game 8-7 and dropping the second game 9-0. In the first game, Western needed extra innings to beat the Stormers. The Stormers came back to score two runs in the 7th innings to tie the game at 7. Western would score one run in the bottom of the 8th on a RBI single by Nick Scultz. Ryan Seidel earned the victory in relief, pitching 1 innings of scoreless baseball. Ricky Bates started the game going 7 innings giving up 7 runs (3 earned) on 5 hits while striking out 6 and walking 8. Offensively the Cavs were led by James Corwith who was 3-5 with a homerun and 3 RBIS, Nick Schultz, who was 3-5, and Ben Levendoski 2-4 with 2 runs scored

In the second game the Cavs sent mutiple pitchers to the mound. Having played 6 games in 3 days the Cavs pitching staff was pretty depleted. Ryan Seidel started the game going 2 innings giving up 2 runs on 2 hits while striking out 2 and walking 2. He was relieved by Nick Schultz, who pitched 1 inning giving up 4 runs on 5 hits. Brad Gilberts pitched 2 innings giving up 1 run. He was relieved by Adam Bozinski pitched 1 innings giving up 2 runs. Franklin Willis finished the game pitching the last inning. Offensively the Cavs were led by Ricky Bates, who was 2-3, and Corey Jessesky, who was 2-3. With the split the Cavs improve to 11-8.

NOTES: The Cavs now have 11 wins, they are 1 win from doubling the totals wins of last season.

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