Central Michigan University Athletics
Central Michigan University
Kent State (MAC Tournament)
CMU Falls to Kent State, 6-0
5/26/2004 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 26, 2004
MOUNT PLEASANT - Andy Sonnanstine tossed a seven-hit shutout in leading Kent State University to a 6-0 victory over Central Michigan University here Wednesday afternoon in the opening round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
The No. 1-seeded Chippewas will meet No.-seeded Miami on Thursday at 10 a.m., with the loser heading home in the double-elimination tourney..
CMU, the MAC regular-season champion, is now 33-23 for the season while the Golden Flashes go to 32-24.
Sonnanstine hurled his first complete game of the season and shut out the Chippewas for the first time this year.
KSU scored once in the second and once in the third and it stayed 2-0 until the Golden Flashes, seeded No. 6, broke it open with one more in the eighth and three in the ninth.
Senior Ryan Cremeans was the tough-luck loser for the Chippewas. He went seven and two-third innings, allowing seven hits and three runs while walking two and striking out six. Jason Cairns gave up three runs in two-thirds innings of relief, two of them earned. Mark Lundquist went the final two-third of an inning and didn't allow a run.
Two Chippewas managed a pair of hits each, Jeremy Crum and Kurtis Wells. But, CMU left runners stranded at second base on six occasions and couldn't collect a key hit.
In other action on Wednesday, Eastern Michigan beat Ball State, 10-4, and Northern Illinois whipped Miami, 8-4. On Thursday following the CMU-Miami game, Ball State and Kent State will meet at 1 p.m., and EMU and Northern Illinois at 4 p.m.
