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YPSILANTI, Mich.— The Ohio baseball team (16-15, 10-9 MAC) continues to be dominant against Eastern Michigan (13-19, 9-10), winning both games in today's doubleheader (April 16). The Bobcats secured a 12-4 victory in game one, following it up with a 14-8 win in game two.
GAME ONE
Eastern Michigan struck first, scoring one run off a fielding error in the first. The Bobcats were trailing, 1-0, until the third; senior
Colin Kasperbauer (Sioux City, Iowa) tied the game with a double down the left field line. Kasperbauer later scored when fifth year
Spencer Harbert (Middletown, Del.) singled, giving Ohio a 2-1 lead.
Ohio broke ahead in the fifth, scoring seven runs and ending the inning with a 9-1 lead with three singles, two doubles, one triple. In the bottom of the inning, two Eastern Michigan home runs cut into the Bobcats' lead. The Bobcats wrapped up scoring in the sixth; senior
Will Sturek (Minnetonka, Minn.) drove in senior
Mason Minzey (Grand Blanc, Mich.) with a single up the middle, followed by a two-run home run by graduate student
Cael Baker (Gahanna, Ohio) to put the final score at 12-4.
Individually, Baker went 2-for-2 with three RBIs, one double and one home run while Harbert, Kasperbauer and Minzey all went 2-for-4. On the mound, redshirt sophomore
Jacob Tate (Louisville, Tn.) started, pitching 4.1 innings with four strikeouts.
GAME TWO
The Bobcats took an early lead, jumping ahead 2-0 with an RBI single from Minzey and a passed ball. In the second, Eastern Michigan got on the board with a bases loaded walk, putting the score at 2-1. Ohio bounced back the next inning, scoring their third run with a single from senior
Michael Richardson (Cambridge, Md.) Baker extended the lead to 5-1 with a double before Richardson scored on a passed ball. A double from Minzey and a single from Richardson in the fourth extended Ohio's lead to 8-1 before the Eagles drove in their second run in the bottom of the inning.
Eastern Michigan cut into the Bobcat's lead in the fifth, putting the score at 8-4 with a double and a single. After the Bobcats scored two more runs in the sixth, two Eastern Michigan doubles in the bottom of the inning put the score at 10-7.
An RBI single from Harbert drove in Ohio's 11th run in the eight. The Bobcats tacked on three more insurance runs in the top of the ninth with two singles and an error. The Eagles hit a home run in the bottom of the inning, putting the final score at 14-8.
Overall, the Bobcats registered 15 hits and finished the game with a .952 on-base percentage. On the mound, freshman
Hudson Boncal (Coronal, Calif.) got the start, pitching 4.1 innings with two strikeouts.
UP NEXT
The Bobcats wrap up their series against Eastern Michigan at 1 p.m. tomorrow (April 17).
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