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CMU Captures 11th Straight MAC Win, 6-4
5/14/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 14, 2005
BUFFALO,N.Y. -- The Central Michigan University bats were silent here Saturday but it didn't stop the streaking Chippewas from claiming their 11th straight Mid-American Conference win.
CMU had just five hits but it proved enough in the 6-4 victory over the Bulls from the University at Buffalo.
The win, CMU's 10th overall, raised the Chippewa record to 34-15 for the season and 14-6 in MAC action -- virtually assuring the defending MAC champions of a spot in the 2005 conference tourney.
The Bulls fall to 15-29-1 and 2-13-1.
The final game of the series is set for here Sunday at 1 p.m.
Trailing 2-0, the Chippewas scored three times in the top of the fifth to take a lead it never relinquished. David Latour Jr. singled and stole second. Jeremy Crum then walked and both were sacrificed up a base by Derek Schaller. Ryan Peel then launched a drive to deep right center that went off the top of the right fielder's glove and was ruled an error. Two runs scored and Peel ended up on third. Troy Moratti then scored Peel on a grounder.
Crum walked to open the seventh and was sacrificed to second by Schaller. He took third on a fly out and scored on a wild pitch to make it 4-2.
The Chippewas added two insurance runs in the ninth when Bryan Mitzel walked and was pinch run for by Eric Cannon. Latour then doubled in Cannon. Latour stole third and scored on a suicide bunt by Schaller -- his third sacrifice bunt of the game.
Those two runs proved valuable as UB freshman Mike Folli slugged a two-run homer in the ninth off CMU reliever Mark Lundquist.
Freshman Josh Collmenter improved his record to 7-1 for the Chippewas. He went the first seven and two-third innings, allowing 10 hits and two earned runs. He didn't walk a batter and struck out five.
Lundquist collected his second save with one and one-third innings of work. He gave up two hits and two earned runs against no walks and two strikeouts.
Chris McGraw sustained the loss to drop to 1-5. He went eight innings and gave up just three hits and four runs, two earned. He walked four and struck out five.
