Bulldogs split at Youngstown
Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 17:49 EST
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Senior Joe Pauley and junior Colin Ziegel put together two of the best offensive performances of the season for the Bulldogs, but unfortunately it only resulted in one win against host Valparaiso on Friday and Saturday.
The baseball team hosted the Dayton Flyers in a pair of seven-inning non-conference games on April 23, but weren’t able to get the offense going, losing 6-2 and 19-2.
One bright spot on the day for Butler (8-26) was junior starting pitcher Joe Ochs, who returned after missing two weeks because of an injury. In four innings of work, he extended his scoreless innings streak to 21, while allowing just two hits and striking out two. The baseball team dropped both games on Sunday to host Cleveland State, 10-9 and 8-1, despite an early lead in the first.
The Bulldogs (8-24, 4-12) produced 17 hits in the first game, including three from freshman Grant Fillipitch and sophomore Kyle Schultz, and two each from junior Alex Montagano, sophomore Jason Jamerson and seniors Joe Pauley and Kyle McLaughlin.
Butler was down 1-0 after an inning of play, but quickly responded in the third with two runs to take the lead. The men’s tennis team lost in the Horizon League for the first time since 1996, ending its streak at 49 consecutive dual meets. UIC won 4-3 on Friday and also defeated the women’s team 5-2 on Saturday. The women’s team picked up a 6-0 victory earlier in the week against host IUPUI on April 16. The men’s soccer spring schedule concluded Saturday with an entertaining game at local area high school Warren Central. The men’s team executed well against the visiting Ohio State Buckeyes and came away with an impressive 3-1 victory over the 2007 national runner-up.
Senior Joe Pauley got the offense going in the opener, knocking out a two-run homer in the first inning for his team-leading fourth home run of the season. But that would be all the offense the team would produce until the ninth. The Penguins tied the game up in the second, before going up 4-2 in the seventh.
With two outs in the ninth, Pauley got on after being hit by a pitch to set up junior Colin Ziegel’s third home run of the season that tied the game at four. Junior Rick Betsch then followed with a walk, stole second and then stole third after a bad throw by the catcher. Senior Ryan Neat singled to score Betsch and put the Bulldogs up 5-4 to seal the victory.
Freshman Jared Wagoner held the Penguins scoreless in their half of the inning to pick up the save.
YSU came out swinging in the second game, producing 12 runs on 12 hits in the win. The score was tied at one after four innings of play before the Penguins erupted for four runs in the fifth, but the Bulldogs struck right back behind Pauley’s three-run homer in the sixth to pull within one.
But YSU answered with two runs in its half of the inning and four in the seventh to essentially put the game away.
The Bulldogs added one more run in the eighth from Pauley, who hit his third home run of the day and second of the game to give him six on the year.