May 7, 2010
Final Stats
ATHENS, Ohio-The Ohio baseball team rode a masterful performance by pitcher Jason Moulton to a 5-1 defeat of visiting Buffalo Friday evening at Bob Wren Stadium.
Ohio improved to 15-30 overall and 8-11 in the Mid-American Conference, while Buffalo dropped to 20-24 and 6-13 in the league.
Moulton (2-3) whiffed nine bulls in eight innings, yielding just one run on seven hits with one walk. Reliever Jason Moulton tossed the ninth inning and struck out a batter, while allowing a hit.
Buffalo starter Chaz Mye (3-6) took the loss, allowing five runs on 11 hits with two strikeouts and two walks in six and one-third innings. Reliever Jeffrey Hains had a respectable outing, surrendering just two walks with a strikeout in one and two-thirds innings of action.
Ohio third baseman Bryan Barnes had three RBIs to lead the hitting attack, while center fielder Gauntlett Eldemire went 3-for-4 with three runs scored. Shortstop Wesley O’Neill also registered a pair of hits.
Buffalo center fielder Adam Skonieczki had three hits for the visitors, while third baseman Brad Cochrane accounted for the team’s only run with a solo homer to left in the third inning.
Barnes knocked in first baseman Jerod Yakubik with a first-inning single up the middle for the Bobcats’ first run and tacked on another in the third when his sacrifice fly to center scored Eldemire.
He continued his offensive production in the fifth when he ripped a double (his 10th of the season) to right center to plate Eldemire again.
The duo struck again in the seventh when both came home on right fielder Adam Gecewich’s double off the wall in left field.
Ohio had a great deal of success getting its running game going as the squad swiped five bases off Buffalo’s battery. O’Neill, Yakubik, Eldemire (twice) and Barnes all recorded stolen bases for the home team.
The two teams are scheduled to play the second game of the series Saturday at 3 p.m. Ohio will honor its 1960, 1965 and 1970 (College World Series participant) teams in a pregame ceremony on “Alumni Dayâ€.
