Central Michigan University
UAB
CMU Loses Twice to UAB
2/19/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Feb. 19, 2005
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The University of Alabama-Birmingham wrapped up a three-game sweep of Central Michigan University's baseball team with a pair of baseball wins here Saturday, 6-5 and 7-2.
The Chippewas are now 0-3 in 2005 while the Blazers are 3-0. Next up for CMU is a four-game set at Western Kentucky next Friday-Sunday.
The Chippewas blew a four-run lead in the first game on Saturday and were shutout over the final four innings on just one hit by reliever Ryan Huffman.
CMU scored three runs in the first and upped the lead to 4-0 with a solo tally in the third. However, the Blazers scored solo runs in the third and fourth, and then scored four more times off loser Jayson Ruhlman in the fifth.
The Chippewas got a superb pitching performance in relief from Nathan Pung. The 6-6 junior scattered three hits over three and one-third innings, not allowing a run. He walked one and whiffed two.
Ruhlman went the first four and two-thirds, giving up four hits, six runs (four earned) and walking three against five strikeouts.
In CMU's three-run first, Jim Geldhof doubled with two out and Kurtis Wells, Troy Moratti and Bryan Mitzel all walked to score one run. David Latour Jr. then singled in two more.
Latour singled in a run in the third after Moratti singled and Mitzel walked. The final CMU marker came in the fifth when Geldhof singled, stole second and score on Moratti's single.
Geldhof, Moratti and Latour all had two hits for the Chippewas.
CMU was out of it from the start of game two as the Blazers took a 7-0 lead into the ninth when the Chippewas scored twice on Mitzel's two-run homer. Wells doubled with one out and rode home of CMU's first homer of the season.
Geldhof led the CMU offense with two hits.
Senior Jason Cairns was the starter and loser for the Chippewas. He went six and two-third innings, scattering nine hits giving up five runs (four earned). Mike Kirschenheiter went the final one and one-third frames and gave up two earned runs.
