Bulldogs drop two at home to Dayton
Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 15:45 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 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. The baseball team rallied for a 5-4 win in the first game, before falling 12-5 in the second against host Youngstown State on Saturday.
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.
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.
In the first game, both teams were scoreless until the fifth, when the Flyers erupted for four runs and then added two more in the sixth. The Bulldogs’ rally attempt in their half of the sixth produced only two runs.
Freshman Grant Fillipitch led off with a single and eventually scored on an RBI single by senior Joe Pauley. Sophomore Kyle Schultz would also single to score junior Colin Ziegel from second. Senior Kyle McLaughlin finished 2-for-3 with two singles.
Dayton put on an offensive clinic in the second game, with 19 runs on 20 hits. Butler manufactured a pair of runs in the fourth behind senior Ryan Neat’s two-run double that scored Schultz and Ziegel. Schultz finished 2-for-3.