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May 24, 2003
Vikings Oust Penguins From Tournament, 10-4
Fairborn, Ohio -- The Youngstown State baseball team
could not stop a hot-hitting
Cleveland State squad on Saturday
afternoon at the Horizon League
Tournament, falling 10-4 in an
elimination game to the Vikings at
Nischwitz Stadium.
The Penguins end the season with a 27-28 mark while the
Vikings, who won for the third time
in the tournament, advance to
semifinal game later on Saturday
against Butler. In the contest,
Youngstown State committed four
errors and left the bases loaded in
the fifth and seventh innings.
Cleveland State (13-38) opened the game up in sixth when
Keith McLeod singled and Ben Smith
belted his fourth homer of the year
to left off reliever Justin Thomas.
The Vikings tacked on another run
when Eric Schmitz singled with the
bases loaded scoring Dominic Erney
to build a four-run lead.
One inning later, the Penguins committed two errors as Cory
Rojeck and Mario Angelo reached base
on miscues and both scored on a
sharp single by Smith putting CSU
ahead 9-3.
CSU added a run in the top of the ninth when McLeod doubled
to score Angelo. In the bottom of
the inning, Kendall Schlabach
doubled and after a wild pitch
scored on a groundout by Brandon
Caipen. Schlabach's double gave him
203 hits in his career to set the
school mark eclipsing the career
mark of 202 held by Todd Santore.
In the fourth, the Vikings scored twice without a hit. Steve
Chinn and Schmitz walked to open the
inning before moving up on a
sacrifice bunt by Rojeck. Chinn
scored on a sacrifice fly by Angelo
and after moving up to third on the
play, Schmitz scored on a wild-pitch
third strike to McLeod.
CSU increased the advantage to 4-2 in the fifth when Smith
walked to open the inning and scored
on a double by Doug Besozzi.
YSU, which swept a four-game series at CSU in April, pulled within
one in the fifth when Jim Phillips
tripled with two outs and scored on
a single by J.J. Newman. The next
two Penguins walked to load the
bases, but Charles Schultz popped up
to short to end the threat.
The Vikings pushed across their first run of the game in the
third inning when Smith singled with
one out and moved to second on a
Besozzi walk. Erney followed with a
grounder to short and Newman flipped
the ball to Justin Banks at second
for a force, but Banks threw the
ball wide of first allowing Smith to
come home from second.
The Penguins took a 2-0 lead in the second inning when Adam
Cox and Jim Lipinski came around to
score. Cox opened the inning with a
double and with one out scored on a
base hit by Lipinski. Lipinski moved
to second on a Brian Boone groundout
to third and scored on a single by
Phillips.
YSU sophomore Chris Dennis (1-1) took the loss pitching 4.1
innings while allowing just three
hits but had six walks to go along
with six strikeouts.
Pitching on two-days' rest, CSU's Matt Kaltenbach (7-7)
picked up the win throwing five
innings and striking out three.
Kaltenbach also earned the win in
the Vikings' play-in win over
Detroit for the seventh-seeded
Vikings. CSU's Jimmy Gulden pitched
the final four innings of the game
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