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BACKSTOP
VIEW ...Wilmington junior catcher Ben Butler is the focus
of attention as a pitch heads plateward.
Quakers drop tough-luck
twinbill at Mount Union
Both
games go to extra innings
[Game
1 Box Score]
[Game
2 Box Score]
April
22, 2006
Troy Brege |
ALLIANCE
— The baseball gods may have been smiling Saturday, but
not on the Wilmington College Quakers.
Wilmington
dropped a pair of Ohio Athletic Conference extra-inning games
at Mount Union. The Purple Raiders won game one, 6-5 in 13
innings, then took game two, 5-4, in eight innings.
"We played
well enough to win both games, but we didn't get it done,"
WC head coach Tony Haley said. "It just wasn't our day to
win any games at all."
Wilmington
(12-11 overall, 4-6 OAC) held the lead for most of the opener.
The Quakers' potent offense was limited to nine singles and
no extra-base hits in the 13-inning affair.
Shortstop
Greg Krieger (Bellefontaine) ripped three singles for Wilmington
while catcher Ben Butler (Beavercreek/Carroll) and DH Matt
Morris (Hamilton) drove in a pair of runs each.
Wilmington
was unable to hold a 4-3 lead in the seventh when the Raiders
scored to send the game to extras.
After
both teams scored a run in the ninth, the plate went untouched
until a bases-loaded walk gave the Raiders (19-11, 8-4) the
winning run in the 13th.
Game two
was more of the same as Wilmington opened a 4-1 lead in the
third inning when Butler and Morris drove in runs. Mount Union
got two runs off Wilmington starter Clayton Reynolds (Blanchester)
in the third, then tied the game in the fifth.
Wilmington
dodged a purple bullet in the seventh as Matt Meyer (Columbus,
Ind./Columbus East) worked out of a bases loaded, no-out jam
to send the game to extras. The eighth inning, though, did
not provide green-and-white magic as Mount Union scored the
game-winner on a one-out triple.
"Clayton
pitched another superb game today," Haley said. "It just didn't
happen for us. We didn't even talk about it when it was over.
We just went to the bus and headed home."
The Quakers
play an OAC doubleheader at Ohio Northern Wednesday.
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