METAL MEETS LEATHER ... Wilmington's Jamison George connects as teammate Ben Buehner looks on. George had two hits against Ohio University Wednesday night.

Quakers lose at
Ohio University

Clark, Wolverton, George have two hits each

[Box Score]

May 3, 2006

Mike Cafarella

ATHENS — Wilmington College stayed closed to Division I Ohio University for four innings Wednesday night, but the Bobcats scored 10 unanswered runs down the stretch to hand the Quakers a 12-1 defeat.

The loss drops Wilmington to 14-17 on the season while Ohio moves to 16-21.

Wilmington's Taylor Clark (Morrow/McCallie, Tenn.) showed off his many talents for the Bob Wren Stadium crowd. The junior center fielder had two hits, drove in Wilmington's lone run and stole a base. Clark leads Wilmington with a .400 batting average and tops the squad with 46 hits, 32 runs, three triples and has stolen 13 bases in 15 attempts.

"Taylor is a football player, but he is really coming on," WC head coach Tony Haley said. "I told (assistant) coach (Aaron) Lawson that we need to get the rest of the guys to play like him. He gives 100 percent every time he steps on the field. When you do that, when you go hard every pitch, good things are going to happen. And they are pretty much going his way."

Senior second baseman Jimmy Wolverton (London/Madison Plains) had two singles and scored a run and junior right fielder Jamison George (Mount Sterling/Miami Trace) rapped a pair of hits. For the game, Wilmington totaled eight hits.

Sophomore right-hander Kenny Branscom (Chillicothe) started for WC but was forced out of the game in the second inning with a pulled muscle. Freshman Chris Lewis (Ostrander/Buckeye Valley) pitched three innings of six-hit ball and was followed to the mound by senior Clayton Reynolds (Blanchester), senior Matt Meyer (Columbus, Ind./Columbus East), sophomore Nick Borgmann (Milford) and freshman Brody Burson (Hillsboro/Lynchburg-Clay).

"Our pitchers really did a pretty nice job," Haley said. "We held some people back because we've got an OAC doubleheader Saturday, but the pitchers we put in the game tonight worked hard, threw strikes and battled every batter."

The Quakers host Notre Dame College 4 p.m. Friday in non-conference play before closing the season with an OAC doubleheader with Baldwin-Wallace 1 p.m. Saturday at Tewksbury-Delaney Field.