Hard-Hitting Eagles Baseball Team Takes Two From Warriors
April 18, 2004

Complete Box Scores
Game 1       Game 2

Like an oldies radio station, the hits just kept on coming Sunday (Apr. 18) at Ashland University’s Donges Field.

The Eagles piled up 32 hits and scored 26 runs while sweeping Wayne State, 8-4 and 18-1. The sweep gives the Eagles a 32-10 mark, 14-4 in Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play. AU is in first place in the GLIAC. Wayne State, still in the hunt for the fourth and final GLIAC tournament playoff spot, is 16-22 and 9-9.

The first game was tied, 4-4 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning. AU broke open the game by scoring four times off of WSU starter and loser, Sean O’Connor. Junior outfielder Allen Ayers led the Eagles, going 2-for-4 with an RBI and a stolen base. Ayers is 17-for-17 in stolen base attempts this season.

AU starter Cody Castle didn’t get a decision. He went 5 2/3 innings and gave up four runs on six hits. He walked four and struck out three. The win went to lefthander Ryan Douglas, who didn’t give up a hit in the final 1 1/3 innings. Douglas, who walked two and struck out a pair of hitters, is 4-2.

Jon Weisman went 2-for-2 with a homer for WSU. Outfielder Dan Surratt had a two-run single.

Wayne State utilized five pitchers in the second game in an attempt to curb the AU attack. Ashland scored seven runs in the first inning and pushed across two more runs in the second and third frames. The game became a route in the fourth when the Eagles scored six more times.

Senior catcher Josh Gaub belted his third homer of the year on the way to a 2-for-4 day. He had four RBI. Senior outfielder Brandon Cornell had three hits, including a double and a triple. Senior shortstop Eric McDaniel, senior second baseman Mark Kahlenberg and freshman third baseman Casey Jirsa all went 2-for-3 and had two RBI. Outfielder Adam Wilson was 3-for-4.

Freshman righthander Josh Davidson allowed no runs on one hit over the front five innings to raise his record to 6-2. Davidson went 2-0 for the week, last Wednesday he won at Mercyhurst. Davidson walked two Warriors and had five strikeouts. Righthanders Matt Pignato and Chad Moore each pitched an inning out of the bullpen.

AU will play at Ohio Dominican on Wednesday (Apr. 21) at 3:30 p.m.