March 20, 2007

Munoz's Ninth-Inning Single Leads Penguins to Third Straight Win

    Bowling Green, Ohio -- Freshman shortstop Anthony Munoz hit a two-out, two-run single in the top of the ninth to lift Youngstown State to a 7-5 victory over Bowling Green on Tuesday afternoon at Steller Field.
    Munoz's game-winning single came after two walks and a two-out error. The win was YSU's third straight and fourth in its past six games. Bowling Green dropped its third straight and fell to 9-8 overall.
    YSU's last win over Bowling Green was April 19, 1994. The teams had not played since 1996.
    After Bowling Green scored two runs to tie the score in the bottom of the eighth, Falcons reliever Richie O'Brien walked Erich Diedrich to start the ninth. Lou Gattozzi's sacrifice moved Diedrich to second, and Tom Clayton walked to put two runners on with one out. After Rayce Robinson flied out, Eric Lawson made an error at second to set up Munoz's two-run single to left that scored Clayton and Diedrich.
    Andy Svitak got Ryan Shay to ground into a game-ending double play in the ninth after the Falcons put two runners on.
    Svitak earned his first win of the season, allowing two hits in 1.2 innings. Aaron Swenson allowed one run on two hits and five walks in 4.2 innings in his first career start for YSU.
    YSU manufactured a run in the second to take a 1-0 lead on a Rayce Robinson RBI single. Erich Diedrich hit a leadoff single up the middle and advanced on a Lou Gattozzi sacrifice bunt. Robinson then hit a two-out single to left to plate Diedrich.
    Bowling Green tied it in the fourth when Logan Meisler walked and came around to score, but YSU jumped ahead 4-1 with a three-run sixth. Sean Lucas brought in Page and Munoz on and infield single and error, and Eric Marzec drove in Lucas on an RBI groundout.
    The Falcons got two runs back in the bottom of the inning tied the score at 5-5 in the eighth on Andrew Foster's two-run single.
    The Penguins will play at Kent State tomorrow at 3 p.m.