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May 26, 2005
Brent Parks' Single In 11th Lifts Youngstown State to 4-3 Victory
Indianapolis -- Youngstown State
sophomore Brent Parks hit a two-out
single in the bottom of the 11th to
bring in Justin Banks and lift the
Penguins to a 4-3 victory over
UW-Milwaukee in the semi-finals of
the Horizon League Championship.
With the win, the Penguins advance to play UIC on Friday at 8
p.m. EST in the winner's bracket
final.
Banks reached on an infield single with one out in the 11th
and advanced to second when Charlie
Reschke's wild throw from third
bounced into the stands. UWM starter
Rick Cavaiani, who went all 10.2
innings for the Panthers, got Jim
Phillips to fly out to a diving Nick
Wichser in left for the second out,
but Parks took the right-handers'
2-2 offering into center for the
game-winner.
Parks finished as one of five Penguins to post two hits in
YSU's 11-hit attack. Kevin Libeg
allowed only one hit in three
innings of relief to pick up his
fourth win of the season while
starter Justin Thomas allowed three
runs on six hits in eight innings of
work. Cavaiani dropped to 2-9 on the
season.
The Panthers, who were held to just one run on five hits
against Thomas on Friday, jumped on
the junior lefty early with two runs
in the top of the first. Mike Goetz
reached with a bunt single past
Thomas to start the inning and Blake
Kangas hit his second home run of
the season to left two batters
later.
Cavaiani induced inning-ending double plays in the first and
second, but YSU finally broke
through in the third with three runs
on three hits to claim a one-run
advantage. Mike Turjanica hit a
leadoff triple to right and scored
one batter later when Josh Page
singled to center. After a J.D.
Hannan sacrifice, Brandon Caipen
tripled to left center to bring in
Page with the tying run. Erich
Diedrich followed with an RBI
groundout to bring in Caipen to put
YSU up 3-2.
But UWM struck again in the fifth to the score when Goetz
reached on another infield single
and scored on a Brooks Graff double.
Thomas finished with five strikeouts to bring his career
total to 250, which is one behind
school-record holder Dave Dravecky.
Cavaiani's 10.2 innings set the
Horizon League Tournament record for
innings pitched in a game.
The Penguins are now 2-0 all-time against the Panthers in
postseason play as they picked up
their first-ever Horizon League
Tournament win against UWM in 2003
with a 9-6 victory.
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