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Baseball
Game Recap
Kulbacki's grand
slam lifts KU baseball over Lock Haven 10-2
February 21, 2008
Kutztown 10,
Lock Haven 2
BOXSCORE
HAMPTON, Va. —
Lock Haven scored the first two runs in the top of the second,
but the Kutztown University baseball team scored the next 10 runs to
win 10-2 in the opening day of the 2008 Builder Invitational at War
Memorial Field in Hampton, Va., Thursday.
Matt Kulbacki |
KU (1-4) held
Lock Haven (0-1) to just three hits in the non-conference win.
The Golden Bears managed 10 runs on six hits — the biggest one
coming from Matt Kulbacki (so. Hershey/Hershey).
Leading 3-2,
Kulbacki blew the game open with his grand slam in the sixth inning,
giving the Golden Bears a 7-2 lead.
Mike Kacelowicz
(so. Orwigsburg/Blue Mountain) also had a good day at the plate,
going 1-for-4 with a double, two RBIs, two walks and two runs
scored.
The Golden Bears’
first win of the season was accredited to starting pitcher Philip
Rummel (sr. Exeter/West-Mont Christian), who allowed two runs on
three hits in six innings of work. Rummel struck out seven batters,
while walking four.
KU struck out a
total of 12 Lock Haven batters as Justin Jachowicz (sr. Summit
Hill/Panther Valley), Ryan Cassidy (so. Langhorne/Archbishop
Wood) and Trent Mertz (fr. Kutztown/Kutztown) each
pitched scoreless and hitless innings to close out the contest.
Cassidy and Mertz
each struck out two batters, while Jachowicz had one punch out.
Lock Haven had just
one baserunner in the final three innings.
Chad Lightcap (jr.
Boyertown/Boyertown) and Corey Buletza (fr. St.
Clair/Pottsville) each had a single and a run scored for the
Golden Bears, while Mark Renda (r-fr. Lansdale/North Penn)
went 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored.
Michael Dugan
(r-fr. Ocean City, N.J./Ocean City), Jeff Kistle (r-fr.
Sandyston, N.J./Kittatinny) and Nole Saylor (fr.
Boyertown/Boyertown), who had a single, all scored a run for KU.
Update: With
Friday's game postponed due to rain, KU will return to
the diamond at noon Saturday to meet the host of the 2008 Builder
Invitational, Apprentice School, which defeated Bloomsburg 6-5
Thursday.
Score by Innings
R H E
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Lock Haven.......... 020 000 000 - 2 3 2
Kutztown............ 010 204 12X - 10 6 1
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2B - Matt McCamley; KACELOWICZ, Mike HR - KULBACKI, Matt
PITCHING:
Lock Haven IP H R ER
BB SO AB BF
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Josh Rote, L 5.0 2 3 1 7
7 19 26
Tyler Rumsey 0.1 1 4 4 3
1 2 5
David Masteller 1.1 1 1 0 2 2 4
7
Dan Knapp 0.1 0 0
0 1 1 1 3
Eric Christensen 1.0 2 2 2 1 2 5
6
Kutztown
IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
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Philip Rummel, W 6.0 3 2 1 4 7 19 25
Justin Jachowicz 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 3
4
Ryan Cassidy 1.0 0 0 0 0
2 3 3
Trent Mertz 1.0 0 0 0
0 2 3 3
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