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April 29, 2006
Strong Start to Game One Leads YSU to Split With Butler
Niles, Ohio -- Youngstown State
banged out 15 hits and got eight
strong innings from starter Lucas
Engle in a 10-4 victory in the first
game of a Saturday doubleheader
against Butler at Eastwood Field.
Josh Page and Justin Banks had three hits apiece and hit solo
homers as the Penguins had 15 hits
in game one, but Brian Deter held
YSU to one run in Butler's 5-1
victory in game two.
With the split the Penguins moved to 18-25 overall and 9-11
in Horizon League games, and Butler
moved to 16-26 and 9-14.
YSU played some of its best ball all season through the first
six innings of game one. The offense
poured out eight runs on 13 hits,
and Engle held the Bulldogs to one
hit and one run in the fourth
inning.
After Engle struck out the side in the top of the first, Page
put the Penguins up when he hit a
2-0 pitch from Bryan Bokowy over the
left field fence for his first
career home run. The sophomore added
an RBI single in YSU's two-run
fourth, and Banks' solo blast to
left started the Penguins' five-run
fifth.
The Bulldogs scored a run in each of the third innings, and
YSU added an unearned run in the
eighth for the final.
Engle allowed three runs on six hits and struck out five in
his eight innings to earn his fourth
win of the season. Bokowy fell to
3-3 after being charged with eight
runs on 10 hits in 4 2/3 innings.
In game two, Butler jumped out to a 4-0 lead with three runs
in the third and one in the fifth.
In the third, Jeff Brown singled
home Kyle McLaughlin on one of his
three hits of the game, and Joe
Dempsey hit a two-out, two-run homer
to left off of starter Eric Shaffer.
Dempsey then singled in Brown with
one out in the fifth to put the
Bulldogs up four.
YSU posted seven hits and had two runners on in each of the
fourth, fifth and sixth innings, but
Deter allowed only one run on Brent
Parks' leadoff homer in the fifth.
The Bulldogs added an unearned run in the eighth for the
final tally.
Shaffer allowed all five Butler runs on 11 hits in 7 1/3
innings to drop to 3-5 on the year.
Deter allowed seven hits and struck
out four in the complete game
victory, which was his fourth of the
year.
The Penguins and Bulldogs will play the rubber game of the
series tomorrow at 1 p.m. at
Eastwood Field.
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