The Cavaliers are 16-26, 12-18 in Region I play. The Thunderbirds are 5-2 against them this year.
This is a loser-out game in the NAIA Region I tournament. The Cavaliers lost their first-round game to Lewis-Clark State 11-3.
Concordia's key players include Roberto Reyes (.343), Ryan Sussenguth (.320), Sean Myrom (.289), Jimmy Rudig (.343, 2 home runs), Brennan Ingram (.287), Ben Lanier (.285, 4 home runs), Ross Conway (3-5, 6.75 ERA), Brett Hawley (3-5, 4.50 ERA), Kyle Corwin (1-3, 10.17 ERA), and Ben Rue (3-5, 2.15 ERA).
The Cavaliers' head coach is Rob Vance, who is in his tenth year.
Lewis-Clark State 3, UBC 1
Written by Administrator
Sunday, 24 February 2008
If the story of the Western Oregon game was stolen bases, the story of this one was double plays; the Thunderbirds got five of them, and they played a major role in keeping the Birds in this one all the way.
The Birds got the early lead this time, on a home run in the third inning by 1B Scott Webster. This held up for 1 1/2 innings. The Warriors evened it in the fourth with an RBI double by Kyle Greene, and scored the rest of their runs in the fifth. The first of those two runs was set up by a particularly bad error. With a runner on first, LF Nic Benton put down a very good bunt. Benton had beaten it to first base, but 2B Alex White threw to first anyway, and the throw went over the head of Webster. The result was a run scored, and Benton on third base. He scored on a sacrifice fly by SS Brent Wyatt.
The Birds managed only five hits against the Warriors. L-C State used four pitchers, and the last one, Mike Guerrero, was especially effective. He put the lights out for the last three innings, allowing one hit, and striking out six of the 11 batters he faced. He struck out the side when he came on in the seventh, and struck out two in the ninth.
The Thunderbirds' best chance to score came in the second, when they had runners on second and third with two outs. LF Nic Lendvoy opened the sixth inning with a double, but he was thrown out when the next batter flied out to right field, and Lendvoy didn't get back in time.
Starter Mark Hardy went six innings, allowed ten hits. (The box score says two earned runs, but it probably should have been one.) Former Warrior Ashton Florko went the rest of the way, and was sharp; one hit and two strikeouts in two innings of work. Hardy got the loss, and reliever Brian Hibbs got the win. Lendvoy got three of the Thunderbirds' five hits. DH Zach Adam was 3-4 for the Warriors, but the Thunderbirds shut down CF Paul Martin, who terrorized opposing pitchers in the two games the Warriors played the previous day.
The Thunderbirds went 0-4 in the Guardian Plumbing, Heating, and Air Conditioning Tournament.
I am not enthused by your remark about earned runs. Reconstruct the inning without the error. Ashenbrener would have been on second after the bunt. The fly to right was deep enough for him to advance to third, and the grounder to second would have scored him. Please try to be less of a HOMER when you write your stories.
2. 02-27-2008 09:46
Denny G, your comment about the scorer's decision was informative, interesting, and appreciated.
My general attitude with this site is, the game comes first, and I do my best to be fair to opposing teams and players. Like everyone else, I don't always get it right.
actually if you do reconstruct the inning without the error, ashenbrenner wouldnt have scored, because even if the fly ball to RF is deep enough to advance him to 3rd, he wouldn't have scored on the groundball to second base, because that would have been the 3rd out, if the bunt was recorded as an out before, so i think it should only be 1 earned run, i agree with bob.
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