Central Michigan University
Marshall
CMU Rolls to Fifth Straight MAC Win
4/30/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 30, 2005
MOUNT PLEASANT -- A pair of true freshmen led Central Michigan Univesity to an 8-1 Mid-American Conference baseball win over Marshall University here Saturday.
The win was CMU's fifth in a row in conference play, upping its record to 8-6 in loop play and 26-15 for the season. Marshall falls to 6-8 and 13-24.
Frosh right-hander Josh Collmenter, a 6-4, 235-pounder from Homer, tossed a complete game for the Chippewas to raise his record to 5-1. He allowed five hits and one earned run while striking out 11 against one walk.
Freshman Noah Lankford, an infielder/designated hitter from Cincinnati, Ohio, did the damage at the plate. He drove in three runs with a two-run single and a bases-loaded walk.
CMU scored a run in the first inning when Jim Geldhof walked with two outs and scored on a double by Kurtis Wells.
Marshall tied it with a run in the third on a sacrifice fly by Adam Ptacek.
The Chippewas broke it open in the sixth and chased tough-luck starter Chris Cummings by scoring three runs on one hit. Lankford drove in the go-ahead runs with his single to left and the third run came in on a sacrifice fly by Ryan Peel.
CMU added a run in the seventh when Wells doubled and scored on Lankford's bases-loaded walk. Wells now has 19 doubles for the season, one shy of Dan Cronkight's school record of 20 set in 1985.
The Chippewas capped the scoring in the eighth with three more runs on three hits. J.T. Jones had an RBI single in the inning and Wells an RBI on a bouncing ball off the pitcher. The third run scored on a wild pitch.
CMU managed only two hits and two runs off Cummings (3-2). He did walk four while striking out three.
Troy Moratti and Wells were the lone Chippewas with two hits.
Game three of the series is set for Sunday at 1 p.m.
