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Box Score 2 Kannapolis, N.C. -- The Youngstown State
baseball team lost 7-6 in extra innings to Long island, and it was
outscored 9-0 after a rain delay in a 10-4 loss to Fairfield on
Friday afternoon.
Drew Dosch homered in each game for the first two round-trippers
of his career, and Jeremy Banks also homered and drove in five
runs. They accounted for nine of YSU's 14 hits on the day, and no
other Penguin recorded multiple hits.
Against LIU Brooklyn, the Blackbirds held a 6-2 lead before the
Penguins forced extra innings. YSU scored two runs in the eighth on
RBI singles from Marcus Heath and Jake Kucek. A run scored on a
bases-loaded double play for YSU's first run in the ninth, and
Banks came through with a clutch RBI single that brought in David
Saluga with the tying run.
YSU could not capitalize on a one-out walk in the 10th, and LIU
Brooklyn scored an unearned run in the bottom half to escape with
the win. Chris Untereiner reached on an error by second baseman
Jack Graham to start the inning, but Nic Manuppelli was able to
retire the next two Blackbirds. He walked the next batter, and
Albert Faz singled in Untereiner for the game-winner.
Manuppelli allowed just the one unearned run in two innings of
relief for YSU, but he was charged with the loss. Chance
Fuglistahler struck out two in a scoreless 10th inning to earn the
win.
Against Fairfield in game two, YSU led 4-1 in the third inning
before a rain delay lasting more than an hour killed its momentum.
The Penguins managed just one hit the rest of the game.
Banks doubled in Dosch, who singled, in the first to give the
Guins a 1-0 lead. Dosch then homered to lead off the third, and
Banks followed with a two-run blast two batters later to make the
score 4-0.
Larry Cornelia doubled in two runs and scored on a sacrifice fly
for Fairfield in the bottom of the third, and the Stags took the
lead in the fifth on a two-run single from Mark Skrapits. Fairfield
extended its lead with five runs on three hits and an error in the
seventh.
YSU starter Pat Shedlock was charged with the loss, allowing
five runs in 4.2 innings. Seven of the 14 batters he retired struck
out. Kyle Capaldo, who did not allow a run in four innings, earned
the win for Fairfield.
The Penguins will play both Fairfield and Long Island again on
Sunday.