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Top-seeded Ashland University and third-seeded Wisconsin-Parkside recorded victories Thursday (May 13) in first round games at the NCAA Division II North Central Regional Baseball Tournament. This year’s regional tournament is being held at AU’s Donges Field. Summaries on Thursday’s games can be found below. Wisconsin-Parkside 16, Grand Valley State 7 The teams were tied, 4-4 after one inning. Wisconsin-Parkside took the lead for good in the top of the fourth inning, pushing two runs across to take a 6-5 lead. Shortstop Justin Clarke had the key hit in the inning. His two-run single to left field off of GVSU starter and loser Jon Micoff (10-3) got the Rangers the lead. The winners added four more runs in the fifth and for good measure, scored six times in the top of the ninth inning. W-P third baseman Kevin Powell was 3-for-5 with a double and four RBI. First baseman Adam Brechtl was 3-for-4 and drove in one run. Left fielder Tim Baum had a double and went 2-for-3 with three RBI. Leadoff hitter Jim Healy belted a grand slam. Rangers starter Brandon Kellbach went eight inning to get the win, improving to 11-2. Kellbach allowed six runs, all earned, on 12 hits. He walked two and struck out four. First baseman Scott Allen led the Grand Valley (39-15) attack, going 3-for-4. Shortstop Ryan Lyster was 2-for-5 and Tim Hudnall came off the bench to go 2-for-2 with a triple. The Lakers were coming off a weekend that saw them go 3-0 and claim the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament championship in Ashland. Entering Thursday’s game, GVSU had won 26 of 29 games. Ashland 5, Northern Kentucky 1
A flash of lightning from Mother Nature halted play in the middle of the fifth inning. Fifty minutes later a lightning-like shot off the bat of AU senior catcher Josh Gaub sent the Eagles past the Norse. For much of four innings, the host Eagles (46-13) struggled against NKU starter Derrick Moaves. AU and NKU (37-24) were tied, 1-1 when a thunderstorm halted play in the fifth inning. When play resumed after 50 minutes, Moaves left in favor of Chad Anderson and Gaub hit Anderson’s first pitch for a two-run double to put AU in front, 3-1. That would be plenty of support for junior righthander Cody Castle, who hurled a complete game three-hitter. The complete game was Castle’s eighth of the season. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out four. Castle is 9-4. AU’s first run came home in the fifth on a double to left field by outfielder David Waters. That plated second baseman Mark Kahlenberg who had singled. AU added two runs in the seventh. One came home on a Brandon Cornell single and Gaub singled to bring Cornell home moments later. Ashland finished the game with eight hits. Gaub was 2-for-4 with three RBI and Waters was 2-for-4. Shaun Erie and Lewis Jones belted doubles for NKU. The loss went to Moeves, who fell to 7-4. The righthander allowed three runs on four hits with two walks and four strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings. North Central Region Tournament Friday
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