April 6, 2002

Box Score

KALAMAZOO, Mich. - Behind the accurate arm of senior starting pitcher Russ Bayer (Naperville, Ill./Naperville North) and the potent bat of junior Mike Galloway (St. Thomas, Ontario/Central Elgin/Central Michigan), the Miami baseball team salvaged the second game of a doubleheader, 4-2, against Western Michigan Saturday, April 6 at Haymes Field. The Broncos powered their way past the RedHawks in the first game, 9-2.

Bayer went the distance in an efficient 111-pitch performance, striking out seven and walking none en route to earning his Mid-American Conference-best fifth win of the year, against just one loss. It is Bayer's second complete game of the season.

With the game tied 2-2 in the fifth, Galloway took matters into his own hands, crushing a Clark Sterley offering far over the leftfield fence for his seventh home run of the season. The mammoth shot gave Miami a 3-2 lead.

Two innings later, Galloway hit his second solo blast of the game, this one to left-center off of reliever Nate Doorlag. It marks his first multi-homer game as a RedHawk and second of his career, the other one coming while as a freshman at Central Michigan.

Miami (14-10, 1-2) got out to a 2-0 lead on an RBI single by junior Michael Carlin (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mt. Lebanon) in the first and a third-inning infield error on which Galloway came around.

Western (9-10, 2-1) tied it in the fourth on a Chad Tarpley RBI sacrifice fly and a James Galla run-scoring single.

Galloway was 3-for-5 with two RBIs and three runs scored in the game while freshman Brian Canada (Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern) had two hits.

The Broncos got all the runs they needed in the first game in a three-run third inning. A balk by junior starter Adam Keel (Fairfield, Ohio/Fairfield) brought in the first one, and RBI singles later in the frame by Tarpley and Greg Graham made it 3-0.

The RedHawks cut the deficit in half in the sixth on a two-run double by junior David Cook (Columbus, Ohio/St. Francis De Sales), but Western exploded for five runs in the bottom of the inning to put the game away.

The series wraps up at 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 7 with a single game.