Central Michigan University
Northern Illinois
Chippewas Complete Sweep at NIU
4/24/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 24, 2005
DeKALB, Ill. - It was just a matter of time until the Central Michigan University baseball team started hitting.
Maybe it took a break in the weather the wrong way to do it -- from warm to bitter cold for the Chippewas to get rolling.
Whatever the case, CMU capped a three-game Mid-American Conference sweep here Sunday afternoon with a 17-hit, 15-6 victory over Northern Illinois University.
The Chippewas scored 41 runs and pounded out 51 hits to move their record back to 6-6 in MAC play and 24-14 for the season. The Huskies fall to 10-26 and 1-11 in the league.
CMU raised its batting average 10 points, from .282 to .292, during the NIU set.
The Chippewas scored four times in the first inning on Sunday and finished it off with five more in the ninth.
Troy Moratti had four hits and drove in a run for CMU while Kurtis Wells added four hits and plated two. Noah Lankford had three hits and two RBI and J.T. Jones had just one hit but knocked in three with a bases-loaded double in the ninth. Bryan Mitzel had three hits.
Junior right-hander Mark Lundquist, the lone Chippewa hurler not to allow a run, picked up the win in relief of starter Jason Cairns. Lundquist went one and one-third innings to raise his record to 3-0.
Cairns went the first three and two-third innings, allowing three runs and one earned. Jayson Ruhlman followed Lundquist and tossed two and two-third innings, giving up two runs (one earned). Nathan Pung closed the game out, going the final one and one-third innings. He gave up an earned run.
The Chippewas return to action on Wednesday night against Michigan State at Lansing's Olds Park. First pitch is set for 7 p.m.
