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Baseball Team Defeats Bradley In Ten Innings
March 14, 2009 | Baseball
March 14, 2009
WINTER HAVEN, FLA. - The Bowling Green State University baseball team concluded their spring trip on a winning note with an 11-10 victory, in 10 innings, over Bradley Saturday afternoon at Chain Lakes Stadium in Winter Haven, Fla. With the victory, Bowling Green completes their spring trip with a 5-3 record while improving to 5-9 on the season. Bradley is now 3-7 on the season.
The Falcon, playing their second game of the day, they lost 15-7 Saturday morning to Indiana, scored a run in the bottom of the 10th inning for the win. With one out in the 10th, junior Tyler Elkins doubled to left center and moved to third on a ground out by senior Brian Hangbers. Junior third baseman Derek Spencer then stroked the game-winning single to center to score Elkins.
The hit by Spencer made sophomore Clay Duncan, normally an infielder/outfielder, the winning pitcher going the final 1.1 innings. Duncan had pitched an inning in the Connecticut game on Tuesday, his first appearance in a Falcon uniform as a pitcher.
Freshman Ross Gerdeman started and pitched the first five innings allowing four earned runs for the Falcons. Hangbers and sophomore Charles Wooten also pitched for BG.
The Falcons, who had 14 hits in the game, were led by Spencer who had three hits, three runs scored and four RBI. Spencer had 13 RBI in BG's eight games in Florida and he now has 17 RBI for the season. Senior shortstop Ryan Shay had three hits and three runs scored while Elkins added three hits and a pair of RBI and runs scored.
The Falcons built a 9-3 lead after the first three frames with three runs in each of the first three innings. Spencer had a two-run double to key the rally in the first inning and Elkins' two-run double in the third for the big blow in that inning.
BG took a 10-5 lead into the top of the ninth, but the Braves scored five runs in the inning to force an extra frame where Spencer won it with his two-out single.
Bowling Green will head home Sunday morning to open the home portion of their 2009 season against Michigan State on Tuesday (March 17). Following a game Wednesday at Cleveland State, BG begins defense of its Mid-American Conference overall and divisional titles in 2008 next weekend (March 20-22) hosting preseason West Division favorite Western Michigan.
Bradley 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 5 0 - 10 18 0 Bowling Green 3 3 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 - 11 14 0
