Baseball
Game Recaps

April 11, 2009

KU takes two from Bloomsburg Saturday at North Campus Field

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — Shayne Houck (fr. Barto/Boyertown) had five RBIs to lead the Kutztown University baseball team to a doubleheader sweep of Bloomsburg Saturday at North Campus Field.

KU won the first game of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference East doubleheader 9-6 and then added a 6-1 win in game two.

Houck combined to go 4-for-7 with five RBIs, four runs scored and a homer.

KU (26-9, 12-4 PSAC East) has now won five of six against Bloomsburg (14-24, 5-15 PSAC East) this season.

The Golden Bears will return to the field for a non-conference pair of games against Columbia Union at 1 p.m. Tuesday.

Game 1:
Score by Innings                 R  H  E
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Bloomsburg.......... 020 000 4 - 6 12 4
Kutztown............ 420 003 X - 9  7 1
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Game 2:
Score by Innings                 R H E
----------------------------------------- | BOXSCORE | RECAP |
Bloomsburg.......... 001 000 0 - 1 7 3
Kutztown............ 000 060 X - 6 6 0
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Houck homers, drives in three in 9-6 win

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — Shayne Houck (fr. Barto/Boyertown) finished 3-for-4 with three RBIs and three runs scored in the Golden Bears’ 9-6 win over Bloomsburg in game one of their doubleheader Saturday.

Houck hit an RBI single in the four-run first inning and a solo homer in KU’s two-run second inning.

KU added three more runs in the bottom of the sixth to give starter Ryan Cassidy (jr. Langhorne/Archbishop Wood) a 9-2 lead heading into the bottom of the seventh.

Bloomsburg, however, rallied for four runs off of six hits against closer Jason Herr (so. Harrisburg/C.D. East) to cut it to 9-6. Herr forced the game-ending groundout with the tying run at the plate to complete Cassidy’s sixth win of the season.

The early offense proved to be the difference for the Golden Bears.

In the first, Houck’s single drove in Corey Buletza (so. St. Clair/Pottsville), who reached on an error, to make it 1-0.

Back-to-back one-out walks issued to Mike Kacelowicz (jr. Orwigsburg/Blue Mountain) and Chad Lightcap (sr. Boyertown/Boyertown) loaded the bases and scored a run for KU to make it 2-0.

Jared Frey (jr. Mohrsville/Schuylkill Valley) capped the scoring in the first, driving in two more runs with a bases-loaded single.

In the second inning, after Bloomsburg cut KU’s lead to 4-2, Houck homered to center field with one out and Lightcap hit a sacrifice fly to record his second of three RBIs in the game, scoring James Quigley (so. Bensalem/Bensalem).

KU added three runs in the sixth after Buletza reached on an error. He led off the inning striking out, but the catcher couldn’t handle the pitch and when he attempted to throw it to first base, he threw it away, allowing Buletza to reach second.

Houck hit an RBI single two batters later and scored on Lightcap’s groundout. Quigley, who also reached on an error, scored on a passed ball.

Frey and Kacelowicz each finished with two hits, and Buletza and Quigley each scored twice.

Maini, big sixth-inning rally lifts KU to 6-1 win

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — Bloomsburg pitcher Mitch Troy had a no-hitter through five innings, but six hits in the fifth inning fueled the Golden Bears' come-from-behind 6-1 win in the second game of their doubleheader Saturday.

KU hit three doubles in the inning, including a two-run double by Mike Kacelowicz (jr. Orwigsburg/Blue Mountain) to right-center to cap the six-run rally.

Chad Lightcap (sr. Boyertown/Boyertown) and Jeff Kistle (so. Sandyston, N.J./Kittatinny) broke the no-hitter with doubles in the fifth. In between their two-base hits, Dom Fantanarosa (sr. Coatesville/Coatesville) was hit by a pitch.

Lightcap scored on Kistle's double to tie the game at 1-1, and after Mark Renda (so. Lansdale/North Penn) singled in Fantanarosa for the lead, Shayne Houck (fr. Barto/Boyertown) hit a two-RBI single.

James Quigley (so. Bensalem/Bensalem) followed with the fifth hit of the inning and Kacelowicz drove in Houck and Quigley for the 6-1 lead.

Adam Maini (jr. Macungie/Emmaus) picked up the win, pitching six innings, allowing one run on six hits. He struck out seven for his fifth win of the season.

The only run Maini gave up came in the third after Tony Donofry, who hit a one-out triple, scored on a groundout.

Lightcap's double in the sixth gives him 48 for his career, one shy of the school record.