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Box Score 2 Milwaukee, Wis. -- Milwaukee senior Dan
Buchholz hit a walk-off three-run home run in his final swing at
Henry Aaron Field to lift the Panthers to an 8-7 victory in 14
innings in game two of Saturday's doubleheader. YSU had the tying
run at the plate in the ninth in game one before falling 8-5.
With the two losses, Youngstown State finishes the regular
season at 21-32 overall and 9-17 in the Horizon League. The
Penguins will enter the Horizon League Tournament as the sixth seed
and play on Wednesday at 3 p.m. Central.
In game two, the Penguins got a solid outing from freshman
starter Kevin McCulloh. Making his first conference start, the
right-hander held the Panthers to three runs on 10 hits while
striking out seven batters in seven innings. He left with a 5-3
lead, but UWM rallied to tie the score on a two-out single in the
ninth.
Neither team scored until two runs came in on Eric Hymel's
single in the top of the 14th for YSU. In the bottom of the 14th,
the No. 9 batter Jonathan Capasso reached with a leadoff single and
Shaun Wegner drew a one-out walk. That set the stage for Buchholz,
who hit Trent Wood's 2-2 offering over the wall in left center.
Hymel went 3-for-3, and C.J. Morris had four hits to lead
Youngstown State in the nightcap.
Joe Iacobucci's RBI single brought in Jacke Healey in the first
inning to give YSU a 1-0 lead, and Padraic Williams and Derek Carr
had RBIs in the third. Milwaukee scored twice in the third and
another run in the fourth to tie the score at 3-3.
Tom Clayton's 10th home run of the season put the Penguins ahead
5-3 in the eighth, but UWM got two-out runs in both the eighth and
ninth innings to send the game to extra innings.
In game one, YSU fell behind 7-1 before making things
interesting late. The Penguins scored twice in the eighth to make
it 7-3, and UWM added an insurance run in the bottom half to go up
8-3.
Morris hit a two-run homer in the top of the ninth to make the
score 8-5, and the Penguins got two more runners on before Clayton
grounded out to end the game.
The Panthers score three runs, two of which were unearned, in
the second inning to go ahead 3-0. Healey doubled and scored on
Clayton's grounder to get YSU on the board in the sixth, but UWM
tacked on four run runs in the bottom half to go ahead 7-1. YSU got
two unearned runs in the eighth to climb to within 7-3, but
Wegner's two-out double gave UWM a five-run margin.
The Penguins were held to five hits in the opener as UWM starter
Chad Pierce allowed just one earned run in eight innings.