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Baseball Edges Buffalo, 4-2
4/2/2006 5:26:58 PM | Baseball
Eagles win eighth straight to move into first place tie in MAC West Division
YPSILANTI, Mich. –The Eastern Michigan University baseball completed a series sweep against Buffalo (5-20, 0-6 MAC) with a 4-2 victory here Sunday afternoon at Oestrike Stadium in a Mid-American Conference game. Today’s win is the eighth consecutive for the Eagles (12-11, 5-1 MAC) and moves them into a first place tie in the MAC West Division standings.
Junior Derek Lehrman led the way offensively for EMU going 2-for-3 with two doubles that drove in three out of four EMU runs.
Senior Will Stewardson (2-0) picked up his second win of the season going 6.1 innings with five strikeouts, four shattered hits and three walks while only giving up two runs on 27 batters faced. Freshman Kevin Wammes chalked up his first career save.
For the second straight game, Buffalo got on the board first as Dan Quinn scored on an EMU error for a ` 1-0 advantage. Eastern responded as Aaron Powel scored on a throwing error and Lehrman drove in Trumaine Riley with his first double of the game to give the Eagles a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the second inning.
The same combination struck again for the Eagles in the bottom of the fourth inning as Powel reach on an error, Riley singled to left center field and Lehrman drove both of them in with his second double increasing the lead to 4-1.
Buffalo added another run in the top of the seventh on a Mike Folli single which scored Frank Jagoda to cut the Eagle lead to 4-2.
With the bases leaded in the top of the eighth and two outs, Wammes came in and forced UB’s James Piazza to fly out to center field ending the Buffalo threat. The Bulls mounted another threat in the top of the ninth inning with runners on first and third with only one out. Wammes rose to the occasion again and tallied back-to-back strikeouts to closeout the game for a 4-2 victory.
EMU will host Concordia University in a doubleheader at Oestrike Stadium on Tuesday, April 4, at 4 p.m. Both games with be seven innings in length.
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