Baseball
Game Recap

KU splits doubleheader with PSAC East foe Bloomsburg

March 29, 2008

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — The Kutztown University baseball team split a pair of games against Bloomsburg in their Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference East opener Saturday at North Campus Field.

The Golden Bears (11-11, 1-1 PSAC East) opened the doubleheader against the Huskies (6-18, 1-1 PSAC East) with a 5-1 win, but fell 1-0 in the second game.

KU and Bloomsburg will continue their series at 1 p.m. Sunday in Bloomsburg, a makeup doubleheader which was originally scheduled for Friday.

Game 1:
Kutztown 5, Bloomsburg 1  
Score by inning                   R  H  E
Bloomsburg.......... 001 000 0 -  1  4  2   | BOXSCORE | RECAP |
Kutztown............ 010 220 X -  5  7  1

Game 2:
Bloomsburg 1, Kutztown 0
Score by Innings                  R  H  E
Bloomsburg.......... 000 100 0 -  1  3  1     | BOXSCORE | RECAP |
Kutztown............ 000 000 0 -  0  5  0

Gorski picks up fourth win, shuts down Bloomsburg

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — Golden Bears starting pitcher Darin Gorski (so. Mount Joy/Donegal) held the Huskies to four hits and helped KU win 5-1 in the first game of a doubleheader against Bloomsburg at North Campus Field Saturday.

Gorski pitched a complete game, striking out four and allowing just one run over seven innings. Three of the four hits he allowed came in the top of the third, where Preston Hitchcock’s RBI single plated Carlos Medina to tie the game at 1.

KU scored two runs in back-to-back innings to pull away for the win.

Jared Frey (so. Mohrsville/Schuylkill Valley) provided the big hit, smashing a two-RBI double to center field in the bottom of the fourth, bringing home Chad Lightcap (jr. Boyertown/Boyertown) and James Quigley (fr. Bensalem/Bensalem), to give KU a 3-1 lead. The Golden Bears loaded the bases after Frey’s double, but couldn’t manage any more runs in the inning.

Lightcap scored again in the fifth, crossing home plate after a passed ball.

Quigley also scored in the fifth on a single from catcher Matt Kulbacki (so. Hershey/Hershey), who was 2-for-2, to make it 5-1. 

Bloomsburg shuts out KU 1-0

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — The Golden Bears tried to rally in the bottom of the seventh, but Bloomsburg closed the door on its 1-0 win in the second game of the doubleheader Saturday at North Campus Field.

Derick Reis (sr. Jim Thorpe/Jim Thorpe) started for KU, holding Bloomsburg to three hits and one walk over 5.2 innings, but the Golden Bears’ offense stranded eight baserunners.

Reis only struggled in the fourth inning, when Bloomsburg’s Tyler Gansner singled in Preston Hitchcock for the 1-0 lead.

That was all Huskies starting pitcher Chris Tressler needed, as he held KU to four hits over six innings. He struck out three and worked himself out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of third.

Grant Kernaghan came in for the Huskies in the seventh to collect the save, despite allowing a one-out single to Golden Bears pinch-hitter Mark Renda (r-fr. Lansdale/North Penn).