Baseball
Game Recaps

April 5, 2009

KU swept at home by West Chester Sunday

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — The Kutztown University baseball team dropped two games Sunday and its third straight Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference East contest to West Chester at North Campus Field.

The 14th-ranked Golden Bears (23-8, 9-3 PSAC East) lost 6-5 in eight innings and 8-1 in game two to No. 18 West Chester (26-9, 14-2 PSAC East).

KU and West Chester split their games on Saturday at West Chester. The Golden Rams won game one 13-8 and the Golden Bears won the second game 8-3.

The Golden Bears will host Columbia Union in a non-conference doubleheader at 1 p.m. Monday at North Campus Field.

Game 1:
Score by Innings              R  H  E
-------------------------------------  | BOXSCORE | RECAP |
WEST CHESTER.... 010 101 12 - 6 12  0
KUTZTOWN........ 200 011 01 - 5  9  3

Game 2:
Score by Innings              R  H  E
-------------------------------------  | BOXSCORE | RECAP |
West Chester.... 101 213 0 -  8 12  0
Kutztown........ 010 000 0 -  1  3  7

West Chester tops KU 6-5 in eight innings

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — The Golden Bears loaded the bases in the bottom of the eighth inning trailing by two runs, but managed only one run on a passed ball to fall to West Chester by a score of 6-5.

Jared Frey (jr. Mohrsville/Schuylkill Valley) hit a one-out single to get things started for KU in the bottom of the eighth. Back-to-back walks to Matt Kulbacki (jr. Hershey/Hershey) and Michael Dugan (so. Ocean City, N.J./Ocean City) loaded the bases, with each runner moving up a spot on a passed ball.

With the tying run on third and winning run on second, West Chester's Eric Carmichael got an pop out to second and a groundout to first to earn the win.

Darin Gorski (jr. Mount Joy/Donegal) started for the Golden Bears, going six innings. He allowed three runs, only two earned, striking out three and scattering seven hits along the way.

KU got two runs in the first inning off of a bases loaded walk and an RBI single by Frey.

Shayne Houck (fr. Boyertown/Boyertown) went 3-for-3 with two runs scored and Frey finished 2-for-4 with an RBI.

A two-out rally by the Golden Rams in the second cut the lead to 2-1and a run in the fourth tied the game up.

Charlie Kelly led of the extra inning frame with a home run, and an RBI single by Matt Cottelese turned out to be the deciding run.

The Golden Bears left eight runners stranded on the bases and committed three errors, one of which led to a run.

West Chester holds KU to three hits in 8-1 win

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — The Golden Bears scored a run in the second inning, but that was it as the Golden Rams scored eight runs on 12 hits in a 8-1 win Sunday.

Matt Kulbacki (jr. Hershey/Hershey) had one of KU's three hits, driving in James Quigley (so. Bensalem/Bensalem) to tie the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the second.

West Chester, however, scored seven runs of the next four innings to put the game out of reach. Only three runs were earned as KU committed seven errors.

Matt Cotellese and Blair Dameron led West Chester, recording seven of the team's 12 hits.

Cotellese finished a triple shy of the cycle, going 3-for-5 with three runs scored and an RBI. Dameron was 4-for-5, scoring two runs and driving in another.