Central Michigan University
Eastern Michigan
Chippewas fall at Eastern, 7-5
4/12/2002 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 12, 2002
YPSILANTI - Eastern Michigan captured the first game of a four-game Mid-American Conference set with Central Michigan, 7-5, here Friday night.
EMU is now 7-2 in the MAC and 14-16 for the season while the Chippewas are 6-3 and 16-10. The two teams will play a twinbill here Saturday at 2 p.m.
CMU scored an unearned run in the first inning when Tommy Grubb doubled, went to third on a throwing error and scored on Keith Sampsell's single to left.
Eastern Michigan took the lead with three in the bottom of the first on a two-run homer by Greg Anglin and a solo homer by Ryan Goleski.
The Chippewas tied it in the second when Danny Gibbons singled and scored on Tim Groves' second homer of the season.
The Eagles regained the lead in the fourth with a solo homer to left by Luke Beeler, 4-3.
CMU tied it in the fifth, 4-4, when frosh Steve Sanfilippo drove the first pitch over the left field fence for his career first homer.
The game was to start at 6 p.m., but heavy rains delayed it to 7:47 p.m. It was delayed another 45 minutes in the fifth inning because of lightning.
Eastern scored an unearned run in the fifth when Tony Palazzolo struck out but was safe on a throwing error. He then scored on back-to-back singles with two out.
The see-saw battle continued with the Chippewas knotting it in the sixth, 5-5. Gibbons doubled and scored on a two-out single by Ryan Krueger.
The Eagles jumped right back in the lead in the bottom of the sixth on a two-run triple to left center by Brian Bixler on a ball that seemingly should have been caught.
Lefty Ryan Ford picked up the win with eight strikeouts and no walks. Dan Horvath had a career-high 14 strikeouts but lost to even his record at 2-2.
