March 24, 2007

Engle, 17 Hits Lead Penguins to 8-4 Victory Over Butler

    Indianapolis -- Youngstown State banged out 17 hits and Lucas Engle struck out 10 hitters in an 8-4 complete game victory over Butler on Saturday.
    Sean Lucas, Erich Diedrich and Josh Page had three hits apiece for the Penguins, who improved to 5-11 overall and 1-0 in the Horizon League.
    Game two of the scheduled doubleheader was suspended at the end of the second inning with the Penguins ahead 2-0. That game will be finished Sunday before the finale beginning at noon.
    Engle allowed three earned runs on six hits and three walks to earn his third straight decision. His 10 strikeouts were a career high and the most by any Penguin pitcher this season. He also threw the first complete game of the season for YSU.
    Page singled in Diedrich in the second and Diedrich drove Koehnlein home in the third to give the Penguins a 2-0 lead.
    Butler scored three runs on three straight hits in the third to go up 3-2, but YSU answered with four runs on four hits in the fourth to take the lead for good at 6-3.
    YSU got two insurance runs in the eighth to go up 8-3, and Butler got a run in the ninth for the final tally.
    Lucas drove in two runs and scored twice while Diedrich had two RBIs. Dustin Wachter also doubled and scored for the Penguins.
    Brian Bokowy allowed all eight runs on 16 hits in 7.1 innings for Butler to drop to 3-2.