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April 27, 2002
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - After Marshall (14-24, 5-9 Mid-American) opened this afternoon's doubleheader at University Heights with a 11-5 victory the Miami University (22-19, 9-6 MAC) baseball team rebounded in the nightcap to win in ten innings 13-10. Coming through in the clutch was junior Mike Galloway (St. Thomas, Ontario/Central Michigan) who stroked a two-RBI double in the tenth inning of the RedHawks second victory of the weekend series.
The Thundering Herd rocked Miami hurler Chris Leonard (Columbus, Ohio/St. Francis DeSales) for seven runs in the first frame of today's first game, and 11 runs overall. Prior to Marshall's seven-run first inning Galloway hit the first of five solo home runs for the Red and White in the first frame.
Two more solo home runs by junior Andi Scheidt (Cincinnati, Ohio/LaSalle) and freshman Sam Sellery (Carmel, Ind./Cathedral) in the third inning narrowed the gap to 7-3. The Thundering Herd, however, negated these two runs by scoring three more off Leonard in the bottom of the third to push the lead to 10-3.
Marshall went on to tally one more run off Leonard as the RedHawks managed just two more runs in the ballgame. Both runs were courtesy of solo shots by freshman Brian Canada (Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern) and junior Zach Schmidt (Cincinnati, Ohio/McNicholas). Schmidt's home run was his first of the season. Leonard who allowed 11 runs, ten of which were earned, falls to 2-3 while Marshall starter Grant Harper improves to 3-5 with the complete-game victory. All five hits that Harper allowed were home runs.
The Red and White regrouped in the second game by registering two runs in the first inning when junior Michael Carlin (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mt. Lebanon) bombed his fourth dinger of the weekend. Senior Billy Kieninger (Xenia, Ohio/Xenia), in his second start of the season, allowed Marshall to hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the first before settling down over the next five innings allowing just one run.
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Kieninger's performance on the hill was just what Miami needed as it tallied one run in the third inning, three in the fourth and one in the fifth to build a 7-2 advantage. Carlin doubled home Galloway in the third frame, while Schmidt recorded his second round-tripper of the afternoon in the fourth.
The RedHawks increased their lead to 10-3 with three more runs in the seventh inning. Carlin led off the inning with this third hit of the day, a single through the left side. Junior Adam Moos (Medina, Ohio/Medina) followed with a walk, and sophomore Ryan Edginton (Chester Springs, Pa./Arizona State) paved Carlin's path to the plate with an RBI single. With runners on second and third after Edginton's theft of second base, Schmidt layed down a perfect sacrifice bunt scoring Moos and moving Edginton to third. Edginton rounded out the scoring for Miami when Marshall's second basemen failed to run a routine ground ball into an out.
Facing a seven-run deficit Marshall rallied with one run in the seventh inning and two more in the eighth. Still four runs down in the ninth inning, the Thundering Herd used a three-run blast by Craig Dziedziejko and a solo shot by Marty Rini to knot the game at 10-10.
In their third extra-inning contest of the season the RedHawks rallied for three runs in the tenth stanza. Freshman Nolan McCue (Chicago, Ill./De La Salle) got things started with a one-out double to right-center field. The next RedHawk batter, Cook, reached on an error to put men on first and second. After Marshall hurler Chris Meadows struck out his second batter of the frame, Galloway hit a two-out double off the center-field wall to score both McCue and Cook. Galloway would later score on a double steal to put the RedHawks up 13-10.
Locking things up for Miami's ninth conference victory of the season in the bottom of the tenth inning was junior Adam Keel (Fairfield, Ohio/Fairfield). Keel ups his season mark to 2-4 by striking out two out of the three batters that he faced in the tenth inning.
The RedHawks and Marshall wrap up the weekend series tomorrow, April 28, with a nine-inning game at 1 p.m.
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