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22
May

Wabash Eliminates Manchester From Baseball Sectional

The Wabash Apaches got off to a good start with a 4 run first, thanks in part to Tyler Brewers two out bases loaded double, scoring 4 runs in the first inning in route to a 13-1 five inning win over Manchester on opening night of the Wabash sectional.

The Apaches would pound out 10 hits, scoring 3 runs in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th innings. Starting pitcher Roger Davis had a strong outing, holding Manchester to just 3 hits and striking out 5.

The Squires scored their lone run in the 5th, with Cody Harlan driving home the run after Justin Lewis singled and Jake Semler doubled to put runners on 2nd and 3rd.

For Wabash Landon Cole was 2 for 3 with 2 doubles and 4 rbi’s. Kody Fuller had 2 hits & 1 rbi. Tyler Brewer had 1 hit, which was a double and 3 rbi’s. Kyle Kelsheimer had 1 hit. Grant Sailors had a 1 hit & 1 rbi. Shea Beauchamp had 1 hit, which was a 3 run home run. Justin Holley had 1 hit. Devin Bitzel had 1 hit.

For Manchester Justin Lewis, Branden Scott and Jake Semler each had 1 hit. Cody Harlan had 1 rbi.

Wabash, now 17-10, moves to the semi-finals where they will face Oak Hill.

Coach Stone – ” We got a great team effort on offense, defense and the mound tonight and that will have to continue if we are going to be successful in the rest of the tournament”

 

22
May

Baker All-MAC First Team

In addition to Ball State baseball’s Scott Baker being named the Mid-American Conference Pitcher of the Year, Baker and Billy Wellman received All-MAC First-Team honors, while Sean Godfrey was named to the second team.

Baker, who enters the MAC Tournament with an 11-1 record, owns a 1.63 earned-run average on the season. Baker has struck out 80 batters in 99.1 innings and allowed only 18 earned runs. Opponents are hitting only .218 against Baker, and he owns a 6-1 conference record with a 1.58 ERA in league games. Baker ranks fifth in the nation in pitching victories. He is 15th in the nation in complete games (5), 21st in ERA (1.63), 47th in strikeouts per inning (9.35) and 86th in strikeouts (80). Baker and Chris Marangon are tied for 14th nationally in games started with 14 apiece. Baker is the third Ball State pitcher to ever receive the MAC Pitcher of the Year award. Erik Morrison received the honor after the 2005 season, while Bryan Bullington won the award after the 2001 and 2002 campaigns.

Wellman, a junior third baseman, is batting .315 through 51 games and is second for the Cardinals with 35 runs-batted-in. He is second on the team with nine multi-RBI games and is second for the Cardinals with 17 multi-hit games. Wellman is fourth on the team with 12 doubles plus hit his fourth home run of the season in Ball State’s 14-3 win over Northern Illinois May 17.

Godfrey, a junior outfielder who hit his fifth home run of the season vs. Ohio April 27, is leading the team with a .325 batting average and a .485 slugging percentage. He is hitting .345 in Mid-American Conference games this season. Godfrey is second on the team with 14 doubles, five home runs and two triples. He has a team-best 22 multi-hit games in 2013 plus has six multi-RBI contests.

21
May

Knights Hit Three Homers-Fall To Luers

The Southwood baseball team played their final regular season game Tuesday, going 8 innings and falling to Ft. Wayne Luers 10-8.

Aided by home runs from Jacob Lloyd, Nathan Hollars and Brandin Frazier and hits from five other players and a good pitching performance from Brennan Kelly, the Knights were up 3 runs going to the 7th before giving up 3 in the 7th and 2 in the 8th.

Southwood 0 0 0 3 2 3 0 0 8
Ft. Luers 0 2 2 0 1 0 3 2 10

N Hollars 2-5 2R 12B 1HR 2RBI
J Blair 2-4
B Frazier 2-4 1R 1HR 1RBI
C Deeter 1-3 1R 1BB
C Gouviea 1-3 1R
J Lloyd 1-1 1R 1HR 1RBI
C Baxter 1-3 1BB 1RBI
B Kelly 0-1 1RBI

B Kelly 6 inn 4K 4BB 6H 4R 3ER
N Hollars (0-2) 1 2/3 2K 1BB 5H 5R 3ER
B Frazier 1/3 1K 0BB 0H 0R 0ER

Coaches Comments: Tonight was enjoyable night in terms of having a chance to honor our Seniors Colin Gouviea, Kyle Weaver, Casey Baxter. All three players had either a run or an RBI to contribute. Brennan Kelly pitched a great game and put us in position to win. Nathan Hollars had an excellent game at the plate, and deserved better on the mound. Jake Lloyd and Brandin Frazier also hit a couple of big home runs. We were up 3 runs in the 7th and need to find a way to close out games against solid teams like Luers.

21
May

Baker Selected Pitcher Of The Year

Scott Baker, a sophomore pitcher on the Ball State baseball team, has been named the Mid-American Conference Pitcher of the Year as selected by the league’s head coaches.

 

Baker tallied his 11th win of the season and improved to 11-1 with a five-hit, complete game win over Northern Illinois May 16. He earned his 10th win after limiting Toledo, who entered the game leading the MAC with a .290 batting average, to a .100 hitting mark in a 4-0 complete game shutout victory May 10.

Baker, who suffered his only defeat of the season in a 1-0 complete game loss at Miami University, owns a 1.63 earned-run average on the season.

 

Baker’s second victory of the year was at Lipscomb, which was the 600th career win for head coach Rich Maloney. His win at Western Michigan April 6, marked the 300th conference win in Maloney’s career.

 

Baker has struck out 80 batters in 99.1 innings and allowed only 18 earned runs. Opponents are hitting only .218 against Baker, and he owns a 6-1 conference record with a 1.58 ERA in league games.

 

Baker ranks fifth in the nation in pitching victories. He is 15th in the nation in complete games (5), 21st in ERA (1.63), 47th in strikeouts per inning (9.35) and 86th in strikeouts (80). Baker and Chris Marangon are tied for 14th nationally in games started with 14 apiece.

 

Baker is the third Ball State pitcher to ever receive the award. Erik Morrison received the honor after the 2005 season, while Bryan Bullington won the award after the 2001 and 2002 campaigns.

 

The Cardinals will open play in the 2013 MAC Tournament Wednesday at 9 a.m. as the No. 4 seed and will face the fifth-seeded Miami University Red Hawks.

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21
May

Knights Fall In Slug Fest

The Southwood baseball team fell in a slug fest Monday to Northwestern, falling to the Wildcats 23-13 in five innings.

The Knights kept right with the hard hitting Cats early, leading 3-2 after one, trailing 9-8 after two and leading 12-11 after three.

In the top of the 5th Northwestern exploded for 12 runs, with the Knights getting just one back in the bottom of the inning for the final score.

Northwestern 2  7  2  0  12   23
Southwood  3  5  4 0 1 13

N Hollars 4-4 with 2 HR 4 Runs 6RBI 3SB
Kyle Weaver 0-1 3 Runs
J Blair 2-3 2 Runs
Cole 2-3 1 R 1 RBI
Lloyd 2-3 1R 1RBI
Gouviea 1-2 1R
L Elliott 3-3 3 Runs

Pitching
J Blair 2Inn 9 R 8 ER
K Weaver 3 INN 12 R 1 ER

20
May

Roser Grand Slam Sparks Norse

A first inning grand slam from Andy Roser sparked the Northfield offense to a 9-5 win over Belmont Monday.

In the first Colin Dawes led off with a walk. Adam Roser was then hit ny a pitch and followed by a Keaffaber infield single. Andy Roser the cranked a grand slam to give Northfield a 4-1 lead. Drake Richter rbi ground out scored Andy Maggart who had doubled and went to 3rd on an error (5-1).

Belmont would come back to score 3 runs in the top of the second. Colin Dawes would lead off the bottom of the inning with a home run, giving Northfield a 6-4 lead.

Andy Roser would single home a run in the 4th with brother Adam knocking in a run in the 5th. Andy Roser would triple in the 6th with Shane Vigar driving him home for the 9-5 win.

Ryan Keaffaber earned his 8th win in relief to move into a tie for #3 all-time in Indiana with his 43rd win of his career.

Andy Maggart pitched 3 innings allowing 4 runs, 2 earned on 6 hits. He struck out 3. Joseph Ross pitched a scoreless 7th allowing a walk and striking out one.

Keaffaber added 2 hits as did Adam Roser and Joseph Ross. Collin Dawes added a solo home run.

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Joseph Ross

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Bryce Kendall

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Dallas Hovey

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Jared Kirtlan

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Austin Curless

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Nick Reinking

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The Norse are 23-3 and play North Miami in their sectional opener on Thursday at 7pm.

20
May

Apaches Fall In Final Regular Season Game

The Wabash baseball team had one bad inning Monday, falling to Peru 5-2 in their final regular season game.

Wabash was up 2-0 heading to the 5th when Peru erupted for 4 runs to take a 4-2 lead. The Tigers tacked on one more in the 6th as the hard hitting Apaches could muster just 4 hits in the game.

Landon Cole (Wabash) 5 IP, 2 ER, 7 H, 0 SO, 0 BB
Justin Holley (Wabash) 2 IP, 1 ER, 2 H, 2 SO, 2 BB

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3B

HR

RBI

K

BB

SB

Grant Sailors

4

1

1

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Devin Bitzel

3

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2

1

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Justin Holley

3

1

1

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Landon Cole

3

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Sam Thomas

2

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Isiah Smith

2

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Shea Beauchamp

2

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Jared Clark

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Tyler Brewer

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Kyle Kelsheimer

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Roger Davis

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Kody Fuller

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19
May

Knights Stumble At Maconaquah Invite

The Southwood baseball team played in the Maconaquah Invite Satuerday at Bunker Hill. The Knights fell 9-3 to Maconaqauh in game one, then lost a tough 4-3 decison to Northwestern in game two.

In game one Maconaquah scored in four different innings, while the Knights picked up all three of their runs in the 3rd.

Kyle Weaver 2-2 1 R 2 BB 1 SB
Nathan Hollars 0-2 2BB 1 RBI
Jake Lloyd 1-3 1BB
B Frazier 0-3 1BB 1RBI
C Gouviea 1-3 1 R
L Elliott 1-3 1R

Southwood left the bases loaded twice.

C Gouviea 5 inn 2BB 11H 9R 9ER
C Hinrichsen 1inn 1H

Coach Holtzleiter ” We had a lot of chances to score runs we left the bases loaded twice, we did not situationally hit and it cost us several runs. Clay came in and pitched well and Collin battled through 5 innings.”

In game two the Knights took a 1-0 lead in the first and were tied 2-2 after three. Northwestern picked up two runs in the 5th, with the Knights getting one back in the 5th, just falling short.

N Hollars 1-4 2R 3SB
J Blair 1-4 1R 1RBI
R Cole 2-4 1SB
J Lloyd 2BB 1RBI
L Elliott 1-3

B Frazier 5 inn 1K 3BB 8H 4R 3ER
C Hinrichsen 2 INN 3K 1H 0R

Coach Holtzleiter ” This was a well played game, ultimately what decided the game was a ball that got stuck in the webbing of a glove costing us an out. I was happy with the way we played. Brandin Frazier and Clay pitched great. It is a tremendous sign for our program when we can throw two Freshman on the mound and still compete.”

 

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