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Baseball
Game Recap
KU moves into fourth in PSAC East
with doubleheader sweep
April 19, 2008
KUTZTOWN, Pa. —
The Kutztown University baseball team evened its record in the
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference East with a doubleheader
sweep of East Stroudsburg Saturday at North Campus Field.
The Golden Bears
(21-19, 8-8 PSAC East) recorded 2-0 and 10-3 victories in back-to-back games against the Warriors.
KU is tied with Mansfield for third place in the PSAC East, while
West Chester and Millersville share the division lead at 10-6.
KU will play games
against Albright and Shippensburg before closing out the PSAC East
schedule with a four-game set against West Chester next Friday and
Saturday.
The Golden Bears
will play as the home team at First Energy Stadium, home of the
Reading Phillies, when they take on Albright at 6:30 p.m. Monday.
They will then travel to Shippensburg for a 3 p.m. game Tuesday.
Game 1:
Score by Innings R H E
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BOXSCORE
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RECAP |
East Stroudsburg.... 000 000 0 - 0 3 1
Kutztown............ 000 200 X - 2 4 1
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Game 2:
Score by Innings R H E
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BOXSCORE
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RECAP |
East Stroudsburg.... 300 000 0 - 3 5 2
Kutztown............ 320 140 X - 10 9 0
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GORSKI PICKS UP WIN NO. 7 IN 2-0 SHUTOUT OF WARRIORS
KUTZTOWN, Pa. —
After a shaky start, Darin Gorski (so. Mount Joy/Donegal)
settled down and collected a three-hit 2-0 shutout in the first game
of the Golden Bears doubleheader against the Warriors Saturday at
North Campus Field.
The Warriors had
two runners on with one out in the first inning, but a failed double
steal and a pop up ended the inning for East Stroudsburg.
Gorski cruised from
there. The KU sophomore struck out seven and allowed just three hits
to collect his fifth complete game of the season. It was his first
shutout victory and his seventh win overall.
The only offense he
needed came in the bottom of the fourth inning when Mike Kacelowicz
(so. Orwigsburg/Blue Mountain) and Chad Lightcap (jr.
Boyertown/Boyertown) led off the inning with back-to-back
singles.
East Stroudsburg
pitcher Dave Boyer loaded the bases with no outs by hitting James
Quigley (fr. Bensalem/Bensalem), before Jared Frey
(so. Mohrsville/Schuylkill Valley) smacked a two-run double to
give Gorski and the Golden Bears the lead.
Boyer held KU to
just four hits in the contest, with Corey Buletza (fr. St.
Clair/Pottsville) collecting the other Golden Bear hit.
LIGHTCAP LEADS GOLDEN BEARS TO 10-3 WIN IN GAME 2
KUTZTOWN, Pa. —
The Golden Bears’ bats came alive in the second game of their
doubleheader with the Warriors Saturday at North Campus Field as KU
won 10-3.
KU starting pitcher
Derick Reis (sr. Jim Thorpe/Jim Thorpe) allowed three early
runs in the first inning, but settled down from there and held the
Warriors scoreless the next four innings.
Justin Jachowicz
(sr. Summit Hill/Panther Valley) and Jordan Smith (fr. New
Milford/Blue Ridge) each pitched scoreless innings to help the
Golden Bears complete the sweep.
Lightcap, hitting
in the leadoff spot, went 2-for-3 with a double, two RBIs and three
runs scored.
Kacelowicz also had
a good game, reaching base in all four at-bats with two walks
and two doubles. He scored a run and drove in another.
After East
Stroudsburg scored three runs in the top of the first, KU countered
with a three-spot of its own in the bottom half to tie the game at
3-3.
Frey hit his second
RBI double of the day, plating Lightcap and Kacelowicz, and
Michael Dugan (r-fr. Ocean City, N.J./Ocean City) drove in Frey
with a groundout to second base.
KU took the lead
the very next inning, with Lightcap doubling in Nole Saylor (fr.
Boyertown/Boyertown) and Quigley bringing Lightcap home with a
single.
Lightcap made it
6-3, scoring on a wild pitch in the bottom of the fourth.
KU added four more
runs in the fifth on RBIs from Saylor, Mark Renda (r-fr.
Lansdale/North Penn), Lightcap and Kaceolowicz to make it 10-3.
Jeff Kistle (r-fr.
Sandyston, N.J./Kittatinny) led off the inning with a double and
scored on Saylor’s infield single.
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