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April 10, 2001
Baseball: Penguins Rally for 10-6 Win at Akron
Akron, Ohio --
The Youngstown State baseball team
scored seven runs in the top of the
eighth to overcome a three-run
deficit to beat Akron 10-6 at Canal
Park on Tuesday night. The victory,
YSU's fourth straight helps the
Penguins improve to 13-13-1 on the
season entering Wednesday's game at
Kent State.
Kendall Schlabach, who entered the game second in the nation
in batting average, went 3-for-6
with three runs scored and first
baseman Jim Lipinski was 3-for-4
with two RBI. Joe Marzano homered
for YSU in the eighth as the
Penguins banged out 11 hits to
offset six errors.
Akron led 6-3 moving into the top of the eighth inning. With
one out, third baseman Adam Cox
singled and shortstop James
Swearengen doubled to knock out
Zips’ starter Justin Lucas. Reliever
Ben Shepherd then yielded
back-to-back singles before Marzano
delivered a two-run home run down
the left field line to give YSU an
8-6 advantage. But the Penguins were
not finished. A walk, a double and
an error enabled the visitors to
plate two huge insurance runs and
make it 10-6.
The Zips missed on several chances to have a bigger lead for
the later stages of the game. A
failed suicide squeeze, a caught
stealing at third to end the fourth
frame, a line out double play with
the bases loaded in the sixth all
contributed to keep Youngstown State
in the game. The Zips fanned 11
times and could not fully capitalize
on six YSU errors and eight walks.
Shepherd was tagged with the loss and slipped to 1-1.
Jonathan Smart (4-2) pitched 4.1
innings of effective relief for YSU
and earned the win. Mike Abdalla
struck out two of the three batters
he faced in the ninth to shut the
door.
The Penguins play at Kent on Wednesday with the first pitch
slated for 3 p.m. |
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