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Northern Illinois Falls 4-1 to Bowling Green in Series Finale
March 30, 2008
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - In a reoccurring theme of its weekend series, Northern Illinois dropped a close low-scoring game to Bowling Green with Sunday's contest going to the home team by a 4-1 count. The Huskies were unable to take advantage of four doubles and five Falcon errors in the game and as a result, fell to 9-14 overall and 3-3 in the MAC. "Offensively, we simply could not get anything going this weekend," said head coach Ed Mathey. "We had runners at second and third and no one out in the fifth and couldn't get a run home and you just can't have that. That was a big momentum swing and they came right back in their at bat and got three runs. Their pitchers did a nice job against us today and throughout the series and I thought our pitchers threw well enough to win, we just didn't generate any offensive support." Bowling Green struck first with a third inning RBI double by Ryan Shay for a 1-0 lead. The Falcons posted a three-run fifth, capped by Derek Spencer's double, to gain a four-run advantage. Northern Illinois chipped away at the deficit and got its first run of the game in the top of the sixth inning. With runners at the corners, Justin Behm (Downers Grove, Ill./North) reached on an error that allowed Danny Reed (Lindstrom, Minn./North Iowa Area CC) to score from third. Matt Jernstad (Oswego, Ill./Oswego) took the loss (0-3) for the Huskies after going 5.2 innings with five hits and three earned runs in the start. Kevin Leady (2-1) notched the win and Nick Cantrell earned his first save for Bowling Green (11-7, 3-0). The Huskies return to action Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. against Illinois State in the first of a five-game homestand at Ralph McKinzie Field. Tuesday's game can be heard locally on WLBK (1360-AM) and worldwide on NIUHuskies.com. HUSKIE TRACKS -NIU-
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