Baseball Tops Dayton 10-9 in Slugfest – Ohio State Buckeyes
4/14/1998 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
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%^$April 14, 1998%^$
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%^$COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State baseball team used three homeruns to slug its way past the Dayton Flyers 10-9 in Bill Davis Stadium Tuesday night. Ohio State improved to 10-9 overall, while Dayton falls to 14-9. Kevin Goodrum picked up the win for OSU, and improved to 2-0 on the year. Mike Pritchard surrendered only a solo homerun in the seventh inning, but took the loss for Dayton and falls to 0-1. %^$
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%^$ Dayton got things rolling early, roughing up freshman lefthander Kevin Goodrum for five hits -including three doubles – and four runs in the top of the first inning. Pat Bell led off the game with a two-bagger, and one out later scored on a single by Ryan Fleming. Clean-up batter Jason Siegfried singled home Fleming, who had taken second on a Goodrum wild pitch. Two batters later, Matt Shipley knocked a two-run double off the centerfield wall, scoring Siegfried and Brooks Vogel and giving the Flyers a 4-0 lead out of the gates. UD extended its lead to 6-0 in the top of the second. Drew Stall walked and eventually scored on a passed ball. Leadoff hitter Bell reached on a bunt and eventually was the second half of a Flyer double steal to put UD up by six. Dayton threatened again in the third, but a throw on a rope by OSU leftfielder Jason Trott ended the inning. Shipley led off the frame with a double, and tried to score a two-out single by Stall. Trott rifled the ball on one hop to Buckeye catcher Tom Durant, however, nailing Shipley by two steps. %^$
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%^$OSU got on the board in its half of the third. Mike Lockwood started the rally with a one-out double off the wall in left-centerfield. Senior captain Mark Carek then took an outside pitch to rightfield, scoring Lockwood. Ohio State All-American Dan Seimetz drew a walk, putting men on first and second with only one out for the Buckeyes. The two runners eventually both advanced into scoring position with two out on a wild pitch, but a diving catch by Dayton leftfielder Pat Bell on a Jason Trott line drive ended the Buckeye threat. %^$
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%^$ The Buckeyes picked up another run in their half of the fourth. Dan Zabloudil tripled off the centerfield wall, then scored on a sacrifice fly by Marcello Garofalo. Ohio State trailed 6-2 after four innings. Goodrum settled down midway through the game, retiring six straight through the fourth and fifth innings. Not one Flyer batter got the ball out of the infield during the fourth or fifth, and Goodrum fanned a pair. %^$
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%^$As Goodrum settled in, the Ohio State offense heated up. Seimetz led off the bottom of the fifth with a walk, and Tom Durant followed with a towering homerun over the 370 mark in leftfield. Dayton starter John Bishop proceeded to nail Trott in the back, and was immediately lifted in favor of senior Ryan VonSossan. The OSU bats couldn’t be slowed down however. Chad Ehrnsberger drew a walk, and one out later Marcello Garofalo doubled to left field, scoring Ehrnsberger. One out later and at the top of the order, Lockwood slammed his ninth homerun of the year over the rightfield wall, putting OSU up 8-6 OSU played longball again in the seventh when Seimetz led off the inning with a towering shot down the rightfield line, giving the Buckeyes a 9-6 advantage. %^$
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%^$Kurt Fullenkamp relieved Goodrum in the sixth and found himself in trouble in the seventh. Siegfried led off the inning with a double to center. One out later, Shipley knocked a two-run shot over the leftfield wall to bring Dayton within one, 9-8. OSU All-American Justin Fry entered the game in the eighth to protect the lead, and retired the side in order. Ohio State then picked up an insurance run in the eighth when Carek scored on a single by Ehrnsberger. %^$
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%^$Mike Stafford pitched the final frame for Ohio State, and after surrendering a homerun to Shipley, collected his fifth save of the season. %^$
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