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Baseball
Game Recap
May 1,
2008
Rummel pitches KU to PSAC Playoff Win
Kutztown 4,
Indiana (Pa.) 3
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LANCASTER, Pa. — Philip Rummel
(sr. Exeter/West-Mont Christian)
pitched a complete game to lead Kutztown University to a 4-3 win
over Indiana (Pa.) in game three of the Pennsylvania State Athletic
Conference (PSAC) Baseball Championship at Clipper Magazine Stadium.
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Philip
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The win advances KU (26-23) to Thursday's game 6 vs. Millersville,
which defeated Slippery Rock, 5-3, on Wednesday. Game 6 starts at 6
p.m. (listen)
Rummel (5-5) struck out six, allowing nine hits and three runs. All
three runs were unearned, however, as IUP took advantage of Rummel's
throwing error to plate its runs in the fifth.
With runners at first and second and one out, Shane Melhorn hit a
comebacker to Rummel. The pitcher attempted to retire the lead
runner, but his throw was wild, allowing Mark Woleslagle to score.
The Crimson Hawks added two more runs later in the inning, on a
sacrifice fly by Paul Bingham and a bloop RBI single by Shayne Busti
for a 3-0 lead.
IUP hurler Colby Betz cruised through five perfect innings, but the
Golden Bears rallied in the sixth.
Garrison Rausch
(sr. Allentown/Parkland)
led off with a single, the first batter to reach base for KU in the
game. It was the first of four straight singles — KU's only
hits in the game, as
Michael Dugan (r-fr. Ocean City, N.J./Ocean City)
singled and Brett Wigder (fr.
Trumbull, Conn./Trumbull)
drove in Rausch on a single. An RBI single by Chad Lightcap (jr.
Boyertown/Boyertown) made it 3-2, driving in Dugan.
Mike Kacelowicz
(so. Orwigsburg/Blue Mountain)
laid down a sacrifice bunt, but the throw to first was wild,
allowing Wigder to score the tying run, and putting runners at the
corners. Jared Frey (so.
Mohrsville/Schuylkill Valley)
grounded into a double play, but Lightcap scored on the play for a
4-3 KU lead.
IUP threatened in the top of the eighth, with runners at first and
second with one out, but Rummel got a strikeout and fly out to end
the inning. The Crimson Hawks got a runner to third with two outs in
the ninth, but Rummel notched his sixth strikeout to finish the
game.
Betz (7-1) went seven innings, allowing four hits and four runs, two
earned. He struck out six. Busti and Woleslagle were 2-for-4.
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