Central Michigan University Athletics
Central Michigan University
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Chippewas fall to Eastern Michigan, 11-9
4/14/2002 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 14, 2002
YPSILANTI - Eastern Michigan University scored five times in the eighth inning to claim an 11-9 Mid-American Conference win over Central Michigan University here Sunday in the final game of the four-game series.
The Eagles took three of the games to raise their record to 16-17 for the season and 9-3 in MAC action. CMU is now 17-12 overall and 7-5 in league play.
Eastern Michigan jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first when Chippewa starter Gavin Gillette walked the first two batters, and both scored on a single to left by Ryan Goleski that got by Ryan Krueger.
The Chippewas bounced back to tie it in the top of the fourth, thanks to a couple of walks by EMU starter Tom Gallus. Tim Groves plated both runs with a crisp single to center, scoring Keith Sampsell and Ryan Krueger.
EMU came right back with four in its half of the fourth on only one hit, a two-run homer by Jesse Cogswell. Two walks and a hit batsman off Gillette helped the Eagle cause.
Gallus walked Tim Bullinger and Tommy Grubb to open the fifth, and both scored to cut the Chippewa deficit to 6-4. Mike Gates drove in one with ground out and Sampsell doubled in the other.
The Chippewas tied it with two in the seventh but wasted a chance to break it wide open. Grubb and Danny Gibbons singled and Gates doubled in Grubb. Gibbons then scored on a balk. However, with the bases loaded and one out, CMU failed to push in the go-ahead run.
Central Michigan took its first lead of the game with three unearned runs in the eighth on a couple of walks, two errors and Krueger's RBI single.
Eastern answered with five runs in the bottom of the eighth off CMU relief ace, Travis Osborn, who had not allowed an earned run this season. He was tagged for five hits, two more than he had given up in his previous eight outings. Goleski's two-run single put the Eagles ahead, 10-9. Osborn sustained the loss and his record is 0-1.
Gillette left in the bottom of the sixth after hurling five and two-third innings. He gave up just two hits but five walks and two hit batters led to six runs, five of them earned.
CMU plays at Notre Dame on Monday at 6 p.m. (CST).
