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April 10, 2002
Kent State Sweeps Doubleheader from Penguins
Kent, Ohio -- The Youngstown State baseball team lost
both games of a doubleheader at Kent
State on Wednesday afternoon losing
3-2 and 7-2 in two seven-inning
contests at Gene Michael Field.
In game one, YSU (8-13) led 2-0 before Kent State (13-10)
scored three runs for the one-run
victory while in game two, the
Golden Flashes broke open a 2-2 tie
with a three-run homer by Casey
Ellis in the fifth.
YSU took a 2-0 lead in the first game when Kyle Penrod
doubled and scored on a one-out
double by Kendall Schlabach.
Schlabach scored on a two-out single
to left field by Tim Stacey.
Kent State scored a run off YSU starter Chris Dennis in the
fourth and in the fifth KSU catcher
Ryan Glass greeted YSU reliever Matt
Gnacinski (0-1) with a home run to
left. The Golden Flashes picked up
the go ahead run when Chris Welsch
scored on a throwing error by Ty
Furino.
In game two, YSU trailed 2-0 before Schlabach's two-run
single in the in fifth to score Matt
Speas and Kyle Smith tied the game.
But in the bottom of the fifth,
Casey Ellis belted a two-out
two-strike three-run homer over the
left-field fence off Jonathan Smart
(1-1) for the Golden Flashes. Kent
State added two runs in the sixth
and YSU threatened in the seventh
loading the bases, before leaving
all three runners.
For the two games, each team had 14 hits, and in game one YSU
outhit Kent State 7-5. However, YSU
committed four costly errors in the
two games leading to four of the 10
runs allowed being unearned.
The Penguins return to Horizon League action on Friday, April
12 when they play at Detroit. First
pitch for the game against the 6-14
Titans is 3 p.m. YSU and Detroit
play a doubleheader on Saturday and
a single-game on Sunday at the
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