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Central Missouri
Mavericks and Mules Each Score Victories In Double
Apr 24, 2009 | Baseball, General
Box Score - Game 1
Box Score - Game 2
WARRENSBURG, Mo. – The UNO baseball team took one of two games from Central Missouri, winning 5-1 and losing 9-7 in the first of two doubleheaders at Crane Stadium this weekend. The series pits the 28th and 29th ranked teams in the country. With the split, the Mavericks are now 35-14 on the year and 25-9 in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.
The two schools square off again on Saturday in a doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m. The game time has been moved up due to the threat of inclement weather.
Game 1
Both teams scored all of their runs in the first three innings of the seven-inning opening game as the Mavericks won, 5-1. #Brian Goliber went 2-for-2 with two RBI and a run scored while Evan Porter and Andrew Hansen# each had two hits and a run batted in.
After giving up a run in the bottom of the first, the Mavericks got two in the second. Hansen singled home #Brian Strawn#, who had led off the inning with a hit, to tie the game at one. Porter than knocked in the second run with an infield single that brought home Goliber who had walked.
The Mavs got three more in the top of the third. #Mat Eikmeier's double down the left field line scored Brett Koehn# who had led off the inning with a walk. Goliber then doubled home two more to make it 5-1.
#Chris Kessinger# went the distance, allowing seven hits and one unearned run to improve to 6-4 on the season. He didn't record a strikeout and had three walks.
Game 2
The Mules matched the Mavericks hit for hit to win the second game, 9-7. Each team had twelve hits. Koehn led the Mavericks with two hits and two RBI. Hansen, Porter and #Drew Schwab# also had two hits each.
The Mavericks trailed 7-6 in the fifth when Strawn dropped down a bunt and reached on a fielder's choice. Schwab, who had led off the inning with a double, advanced to third on the bunt and came home on a throwing error by pitcher Nick Phillips to tie the game.
In the bottom of the inning, the Mules retook the lead for good. Colin Murphy doubled to left field to score John Oropeza.
UNO had a 3-0 lead after the first half inning. Hansen led off the game with a double and scored when Porter followed with a single and the Mules committed a throwing error. Koehn then hit a two-run homer to left.
Central Missouri countered with four in the bottom of the first and two more in the second inning to lead 6-3 before UNO tied the game with three runs in the top of the third. Schwab had an RBI single and Strawn a two-run base hit up the middle to make it 6-6.
The Mules led 7-6 by the end of the third on a sacrifice fly by Murphy.
#Ben Percival# took the loss for UNO. He allowed nine runs, eight earned, on 12 hits while pitching eight innings. He struck out two and didn't walk a batter. He is now 9-2 on the year.
