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Baseball
Game Recap
Pitching powers
KU to doubleheader sweep of Mansfield Sunday
April 6, 2008
KUTZTOWN, Pa. —
The Kutztown University baseball team swept Mansfield in a pair
of Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference East games Sunday at North
Campus Field.
KU (14-14, 4-4 PSAC
East) was led by solid pitching, holding Mansfield (21-10, 5-3 PSAC
East) to a combined seven hits in the two games. The Golden Bears
won 3-1 in the first game and 5-2 in the second.
The Golden Bears
will travel to Lincoln University for a doubleheader at 1 p.m.
Monday. The game was originally scheduled for last Friday at home,
but rain pushed the game to Monday on the road.
Game 1
Score by Innings
R H E
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Mansfield University 000 000 1 - 1 3 1
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BOXSCORE
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Kutztown............ 000 003 X - 3 4 0
Game 2
Score by Innings
R H E
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Mansfield University 000 010 1 - 2 4 1
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BOXSCORE
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Kutztown............ 200 120 X - 5 11 2
LIGHTCAP'S THREE-RUN BLAST LIFTS KU TO 3-1 WIN
KUTZTOWN, Pa. —
Darin Gorski (so. Mount Joy/Donegal) had his perfect game
spoiled in the top of the seventh, but Chad Lightcap (jr.
Boyertown/Boyertown) made sure Gorski got the win with his
three-run homer in the Golden Bears’ 3-1 win Sunday.
With two outs and
two runners on in the bottom of the sixth inning, Lightcap blasted a
home run over the center field wall for the 3-0 lead.
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Chad Lightcap |
At that point,
Gorski had faced the minimum on the mound, but a single by Ryan
Giblin with one out in the seventh broke up the perfect game. Chris
Miller singled Giblin in to cut the lead to 3-1, but Gorski struck
out Jared Johnson and got Nate Grove to ground out with the bases
loaded to end the game.
Gorski (5-2)
finished with five strikeouts. He allowed one run on three hits and
a walk.
Mansfield pitcher
Justin Garcia threw a strong game, as well, holding the Golden Bears
to just four hits. Lightcap finished with two of those hits, going
2-for-3 with a double and a homer.
All three runs for
KU were unearned as Mark Renda (r-fr. Lansdale/North Penn)
reached on an error to give the Golden Bears two runners on with no
outs. Garcia recorded the next two outs, but couldn’t retire
Lightcap.
Corey Buletza (fr.
St. Clair/Pottsville), who singled and scored on Lightcap’s
homer, finished 1-for-2.
REIS PITCHES
KU TO 5-2 WIN OVER MANSFIELD
KUTZTOWN, Pa. —
Mike Kacelowicz (so. Orwigsburg/Blue Mountain) scored two runs
for the Golden Bears as KU completed its doubleheader sweep of
Mansfield with a 5-2 win Sunday at North Campus Field.
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Derick Reis |
Kacelowicz led off
the game with a single and scored on Lightcap’s RBI single.
Lightcap
later scored when Buletza hit into a fielder’s choice to give the
Golden Bears a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first.
Kacelowicz, who
went 2-for-3 with a walk, scored again in the fourth inning after he
reached on a two-out single. He moved to second on a wild pitch and
then scored on a single from Jared Frey (so.
Mohrsville/Schuylkill Valley).
KU added another
two runs in the sixth inning, as Buletza, who singled to lead off
the inning, scored on a throwing error. On that same error,
Garrison Rausch (sr. Allentown/Parkland) moved from first to
third, setting up a sacrifice fly by Jeff Kistle (r-fr. Sandyston,
N.J./Kittatinny).
Derick Reis (sr.
Jim Thorpe/Jim Thorpe) started on the mound for the Golden
Bears, pitching 5.1 innings, while striking out four. He allowed one
run on three hits and one walk.
Justin Jachowicz
(sr. Summit Hill/Panther Valley) and Mike Bucklin (so.
Shillington/Governor Mifflin) pitched in relief of Reis.
Jachowicz finished up the sixth inning for Reis, collecting
back-to-back outs, and Bucklin came in the top of the seventh,
surrendering one run on one hit and a walk.
Lightcap and
Buletza each finished 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI.
Mansfield’s Chris
Miller scored two runs, both off of RBIs by Nate Grove.
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