April 26, 2002

Box Score

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Seven home runs catapulted the Miami University (21-18, 8-5 Mid-American) baseball team to an 18-6 victory at Marshall on Friday afternoon. For the second time this season junior Michael Carlin (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mt. Lebanon) hit three gopher balls in a single game while classmate Andi Scheidt (Cincinnati, Ohio/LaSalle) got in on the fun with two dongs of his own.

Freshman Sam Sellery (Carmel, Ind./Cathedral) started things off for the RedHawks in the first frame when he placed a one-out double into shallow left field. Sellery was the first of 16 RedHawks to cross the plate when junior Mike Galloway (St. Thomas, Ontario) hit an RBI single to right field, however, a bullet from the rightfielder caught Galloway who was trying to extend his single into a double. Carlin upped Miami's lead to 2-0 when he hit his first of three home runs on 0-0 pitch of Marshall's starter Chris Fritz.

The Red and White added another run to its tally in the second inning when Scheidt blasted a solo shot to left field. Scheidt's run was moot when the Thundering Herd struck with a single run in the bottom of the third inning to narrow the gap to 3-1.

Marshall never got any closer as senior hurler Shawn Landis (Pleasant Hill, Ohio/Dayton) tossed a splendid game, striking out a career-high eight batters and blanking the Thundering Herd in six out of nine innings. Landis' complete-game outing upped his season record to a perfect 4-0.

After Marshall's run cut the deficit to 3-1 the RedHawks went on to score 13 unanswered runs before the Thundering Herd were able to rattle Landis. Miami tallied one run in the fourth inning when junior Zach Schmidt (Cincinnati, Ohio/McNicholas) raced to the plate on a wild pitch.

The RedHawks broke the contest wide open in the fifth inning with four runs, and four more in the sixth frame. Carlin hit his second round-tripper of the game with no one on base and one out to push Miami's lead to 4-1. Freshman Paul Frietch (Montgomery, Ohio/Moeller) and sophomore Ryan Edginton (Chester Springs, Pa./Arizona State) followed with back-to-back singles, and the bases were loaded when Scheidt drew a base on balls. An RBI single down the right-field line by freshman Brian Canada (Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern) scored Frietch, and both Edginton and Scheidt touched the dish on Schmidt's two-RBI single.

Even though Marshall scored seven runs in the final two innings, the Thundering Herd couldn't make up the difference. The 16-1 lead was built in the sixth inning when Miami score four times, highlighted by a two-run dinger off Carlin's bat, his third of the game. Galloway hit a solo home run in the seventh inning and junior David Cook (Columbus, Ohio/St. Francis DeSales) finished off the Red and White's scoring with a three-run blast in the eighth frame.

The RedHawks and Marshall continue the weekend MAC series tomorrow, April 27, with a doubleheader at noon. The first pitch was moved from 1 p.m. to noon because of rain showers expected to hit West Virginia in the late afternoon.

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