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Ball State Posts 5-3 Win Over CMU
4/18/2004 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 18, 2004
MOUNT PLEASANT - Two Ball State University right-handers held Central Michigan University to just six hits en route to a 5-3 Mid-American Conference baseball win here Sunday afternoon.
The win moved the Cardinals into a tie for first place in the MAC West with the Chippewas. BSU is now 8-4 and CMU is 6-3. For the season, the visitors are now 18-15 and the Chippewas 17-17.
Andrew Anderson (4-2) went the first seven and two-third innings for BSU to get the win while Ryan DeGeteer collected his first save with one and one-third scoreless innings of relief.
Ball State scored first with a solo run in the second inning when Jason Bucholtz singled with two outs and raced home on a double to the fence in right by Kiel Holman.
The Chippewas tied it at 1-1 in the bottom of the third with an unearned run. Chase Welker was safe on an error, was sacrificed to second and scored on a single to right by Eric Cannon.
The Cardinals moved back on top in the fifth with a single run to cop a 2-1 lead on a walk and three singles, Kyle Dygert's infield single knocking in the run.
CMU knotted it at 2-2 in the bottom of the fifth on a double down the right field line by Derek Schaller and Jeremy Crum's single to right.
Ball State scored three unearned runs in the top of the sixth to go ahead, 5-2. Marc Franz had a two-run single for the Cardinals off reliever David LeMieux who contributed to the three runs with two costly errors.
The Chippewas posted another unearned run in the bottom of the eighth when Cannon singled and Jim Geldhof walked. A BSU error on a grounder by Kurtis Wells brought in Cannon but Cardinal reliever DeGeeter struck out David Latour with runners on second and third to end the inning.
The loser for CMU was starter Ryan Cremeans (3-2). He allowed nine hits and three runs, two earned in five innings.
Cannon led CMU with three hits.
CMU returns to action at home on Tuesday against Saginaw Valley at 3 p.m., before playing at Michigan State on Wednesday at 3 p.m.
