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Baseball
Game Recap
April 26,
2008
KU sweeps West Chester, clinches
playoff spot
KUTZTOWN, Pa. —
The Kutztown University baseball team swept West Chester
Saturday at North Campus Field to clinch a berth into the
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference playoffs.
Needing to win two
games at the start of the day, KU (25-21, 11-9 PSAC East) picked up
an 8-2 win in game one and held on to win game two 8-6.
KU will wait for
the outcome of Sunday’s doubleheader between Bloomsburg and
Mansfield to figure out whether it will be the No. 2 or No. 3 seed in the Eastern
Division. Millersville clinched the No. 1 seed in the East.
The Golden Bears
will return to the field for a doubleheader at 1 p.m. Sunday at
Wilmington (Del.). The non-conference games will close out the
regular season for KU.
Game 1:
Score by
Innings
R H E
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BOXSCORE
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West Chester........ 000 101 0 - 2 4 3
Kutztown............ 060 200 X - 8 13 1
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Game 2:
Score by Innings
R H E
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BOXSCORE
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West Chester........ 000 003 3 - 6 8 4
Kutztown............ 103 040 X - 8 5 1
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GORSKI
PITCHES KU TO 8-2 WIN OVER WEST CHESTER
KUTZTOWN, Pa. —
Darin Gorski (so. Mount Joy/Donegal) picked up his eighth win of
the season and the Golden Bears’ offense made it easy, as KU won 8-2
in the first game of their doubleheader with the Golden Rams at
North Campus Field.
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Darin
Gorski |
Gorski pitched his
sixth complete game, limiting West Chester to two runs — one earned
— on four hits and four walks. He had eight strikeouts.
At the plate, KU
was led by Corey Buletza (fr. St. Clair/Pottsville), who went
3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored.
Chad Lightcap (jr.
Boyertown/Boyertown) also had a big game, going 2-for-3 with
three RBIs and one run scored.
Lightcap’s three
RBIs came on one hit, a bases-clearing double in the bottom of the
second when KU plated six runs.
Buletza,
Garrison Rausch (sr. Allentown/Parkland), Nole Saylor (fr.
Boyertown/Boyertown) and Brett Wigder (fr. Trumbull,
Conn./Trumbull) hit consecutive singles to start the second
inning. Saylor’s hit brought home Buletza for the 1-0 lead.
Lightcap followed
with his three-RBI double, and Mike Kacelowicz (so.
Orwigsburg/Blue Mountain) doubled him home to make it 5-0.
James Quigley (fr.
Bensalem/Bensalem) made it three straight doubles with his hit
down the right-field line, scoring Kacelowicz for the 6-0 lead.
West Chester cut it
to 6-1 with a solo homer from Connor Thorp in the top of the fourth,
but KU countered in the bottom half with two runs. Buletza doubled
in Quigley and scored when Wigder reached on an error.
The Golden Rams
tacked on an unearned run in the top of the sixth.
GOLDEN BEARS HOLD ON TO WIN 8-6, CLINCH PLAYOFF SPOT
KUTZTOWN, Pa. —
The Golden Bears held off a late Golden Rams’ rally to win 8-6
and complete their doubleheader sweep Saturday at North Campus
Field.
Buletza led the
Golden Bears again, going 2-for-3 with three RBIs and a run scored.
Lightcap and Kacelowicz each scored two runs for KU, which jumped
out to a 4-0 lead after three innings and 8-0 after five.
West Chester,
however, posted three in the sixth and another three in the seventh
before Philip Rummel (sr. Exeter/West-Mont Christian) got
Brandon Wolfe to line out to first base for the final out.
Derick Reis (sr.
Jim Thorpe/Jim Thorpe) started for KU, pitching 5 1/3 innings.
He held West Chester to two runs on four hits and one walk. He
struck out four.
Quigley, who went
1-for-2 with two runs scored, singled in Kacelowicz to give KU the
early 1-0 lead in the first inning.
Jared Frey (so.
Mohrsville/Schuylkill Valley) singled in Wigder to move the
score to 2-0, and on Buletza’s RBI single that plated Lightcap,
Quigley came home on a throwing error to make it 4-0.
KU scored four runs
in the fifth inning, led by Buletza’s two-run double. Scott
Kacelowicz (so. Orwigsburg/Blue Mountain) and Rausch also had
RBI singles in the inning.
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