Central Michigan University
Marshall
CMU Captures Sixth Straight MAC Victory
5/1/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May. 1, 2005
MOUNT PLEASANT -- Central Michigan University capped a perfect Mid-American Conference weekend with a 12-4 baseball win over Marshall here Sunday.
The victory was the third straight over the Thundering Herd and CMU's sixth straight in MAC action.
The Chippewas are now 27-15 for the season and 9-6 in MAC action while Marshall falls to 13-25 and 6-9.
CMU pounded out 16 hits to raise its batting average for the season to .301 -- a jump of 23 points in the past 11 days.
Junior Troy Moratti led the hit parade on Sunday with four safeties while Jim Geldhof added three and Kurtis Wells, Bryan Mitzel and Brian Campbell chipped in with two each.
Mitzel knocked in four runs, three on his eighth homer of the season in the six-run fifth. J.T. Jones was the only other Chippewa with multiple RBI, plating two.
Marshall scored three runs in the first inning off CMU starter Jason Cairns.
CMU got two back in the third on a run-scoring triple by Moratti and a sacrifice fly by Jones.
It remained 3-2 in Marshall's favor until the six-run fifth that put the Chippewas ahead, 8-3. Jones tripled in one run and scored on Jim Geldhof's single. Mitzel knocked in three more with his towering homer to left and Ryan Peel later scored David Latour on a suicide squeeze.
CMU added two in the sixth and two more in the eighth.
Cairns picked up his fourth win against five losses, going five innings and allowing six hits and three earned runs. He walked three and struck out one.
Mark Lundquist tossed a scoreless sixth, James Ricchio fanned the two batters he faced in the eighth and Nathan Pung blanked MU in the ninth.
CMU is idle for final exams this week until a Friday home game with arch-rival Western Michigan at 3 p.m.
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