Central Michigan University
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Western Michigan
CMU Falls to Western, 9-4
5/3/2002 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 3, 2002
MOUNT PLEASANT - Western Michigan University took the first game of a four-game Mid-American Conference series with Central Michigan University here Friday afternoon, 9-4.
The Broncos are now 15-19 for the season and 6-9 in MAC play and CMU is 20-17 and 9-6.
It proved to be a bad day all around for the Chippewas as a ruling from the MAC took away their 9-8 victory over Northern Illinois from the previous weekend because of a "suspended game policy" in the MAC Handbook. The game was suspended in the bottom of the seventh on Saturday and could never be resumed on Sunday. Normally, that's a complete game but the MAC policy only deals with the first game of a series.
The Broncos took the early lead with a run in the second and then added another in the fourth to take a 2-0 lead.
Central got one back in the bottom of the fourth on a solo homer by Ryan Krueger, his third. The Chippewas loaded the bases with two outs but couldn't score.
WMU battled right back to cop a 4-1 lead with two runs in the fifth, one unearned. Chad Tarpley had an RBI double and James Gallas an RBI single.
The Chippewas came right back with two of their own in the fifth when David Latour was safe on an error and scored on a double by Tim Bullinger. Bullinger eventually scored on a grounder by Mike Gates to make it 4-3.
Western broke it open with a run in the sixth, three more in the seventh and one in the eighth on Tarpley's 12th homer of the season to capture a 9-3 lead.
Danny Gibbons doubled and scored on a single by Scott Pickens in the eighth inning to cut it to 9-4.
WMU's Pat Misch went the distance, scattering eight hits to raise his record to 5-1. He fanned 10 and walked two.
Dan Horvath picked up the loss for Central, dropping his record to 3-4. Gibbons and Pickens each had a couple of hits for the Chippewas.
The two teams get together in Kalamazoo for a pair of games on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m., before returning here on Sunday for a single contest at 1 p.m.
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