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 Matt Cunningham had two hits in a 9-4 loss to Ashland on Sunday. |
May 4, 2008
DETROIT - The 18th-ranked Wayne State baseball team (30-14, 23-4 GLIAC) dropped a 9-4 decision to 28th-ranked Ashland (34-13, 16-7 GLIAC) in the first game of a doubleheader Sunday afternoon.
Despite drawing eight walks, Wayne State managed just five hits, two of which came courtesy of Matt Cunningham (Gregory, Mich./Chelsea), who also drove in a run and scored a run.
A two-run homer in the top of the first by Joshua Petkac gave Ashland a 2-0 lead, but WSU answered with a run in the bottom of the inning as Adam Kaminski (Clinton Twp., Mich./Mt. Clemens) was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
The Eagles scored seven straight runs until a sacrifice fly by Drew Churchward (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer) in the sixth. An RBI double by Kaminski and an RBI single by Cunningham in the bottom of the seventh made it a 9-4 game.
The pitching duties for WSU were split between starter John Kessick (Niles, Mich.), who worked the first 3.2 innings and fell to 3-2 on the season, and Justin Mazur (Macomb, Mich./De La Salle) who pitched the final 3.1 innings.
NOTES
Michael Wiseman (White Lake, Mich./Lakeland) totaled three of Wayne State's eight walks ... Cunningham snapped an 0-for-14 skid with a single in the fourth ... Kaminski posted his seventh multiple-RBI game and extended his hitting streak to 10 games ... with the win, Ashland clinched a spot in the GLIAC Tournament.