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Depew Earns 500th Career Win as Bucknell Baseball Defeats Bowling Green, 10-7
3/9/2009 8:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 9, 2009
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - Andrew Brouse (Kreamer, Pa./Midd-West) hit a home run for the second consecutive game and Doug Shribman (Marblehead, Mass./Belmont Hill) blasted a pinch-hit two-run home run in seventh to give Bucknell the lead for good as the Bison baseball team defeated Bowling Green 10-7 Monday afternoon at Chain of Lakes Park. It was the second consecutive win for Bucknell (2-7), which also earned longtime head coach Gene Depew his 500th career victory.
The two teams combined for 27 hits in the contest with the Bison accounting for 13. Six Bucknell players posted two hits apiece with Brouse leading the way with a 2-for-5 showing to go along with two runs scored and three runs batted in. Six Falcons also had two-hit games as all but two members of their starting lineup had at least one hit.
Bowling Green (2-7), which is averaging nearly nine runs a game over its last three contests, scored in each of the first five innings, but the Bucknell bullpen held the Falcons without a run over the final four frames.
Brouse, who equaled his career high with his third home run this season, got things started with a deep home run to left center that plated three runs. However, Bowling Green tallied two in the bottom of the inning and added one in the second and two more in the third.
The first three hitters in the Falcons' lineup recorded hits in the bottom of the first before Bison starter Eric Jarrett (Jersey Shore, Pa./Jersey Shore) settled down and struck out two of the final three hitters in the inning. Jarrett, who pitched 5.0 innings, scattered six hits and two walks over his final four innings. He was charged with all seven runs in the contest.
Daniel Hart (Levittown, N.Y./Island Trees), who earned his first win of the season and improved to 3-0 in his career, went 1.1 innings before Michael Dallanegra (Shoreham, N.Y./Shoreham-Wading River) relieved him with runners on first and second and one out in the seventh. Dallanegra retired both hitters he faced and then gave way to freshman Alex Cillo (Williamsport, Pa./Loyalsock Township), who earned the save by holding Bowling Green scoreless over the final two frames.
Trailing 5-3, Bucknell evened the score in the top of the fourth. B.J. LaRosa (Jacksonville, Fla./Episcopal) led off with a hard grounder to second that resulted in an error. Ben Allen (Port Royal, Pa./Juniata), who extended his hitting streak to eight games, doubled him home with a ball that hit high off the left field wall. Ben Yoder (Belleville, Pa./Indian Valley)followed with an RBI single to left center to tie the score.
Bowling Green went back in front in the bottom of the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Clay Duncan, who also had two walks and a single in the contest. Bucknell quickly responded with a run in the fifth on a triple by LaRosa after right fielder Jon Berti came up short on a diving catch. Drew Constable (West Chester, Pa./Henderson), who had a hard one-out single up the middle, scored on the triple.
A two-out double by Ryan Schlater in the bottom of the fifth put the Falcons back on top, 7-6, but that was all the scoring in the game for Bowling Green as it managed just five hits against the Bison bullpen.
An RBI single by Constable tied the score in the top of the seventh and then Shribman, who was pinch hitting for Russell Seidell (Granville, Ohio/Granville), hit a long two-run home run to left center, giving Bucknell the lead for good. The Bison tacked on an insurance run in the ninth on a bases-loaded wild pitch by reliever Phil Hettlinger.
Bowling Green starter Ross Gerdeman went 4.0 innings and yielded five of Bucknell's 10 runs. Freshman Kacy Dwornik (0-1) relieved him and gave up five runs and seven hits while striking out four in 4.1 innings of work. He was shouldered with his first loss of the season.
With the win, Depew improved to 500-579-7 in his 28 years on the Bison bench.
Bucknell will continue its Spring Break trip in Florida on Tuesday morning against Eastern Kentucky. First pitch is slated for 9 a.m.
