Baseball opens MAC play with series win at Ohio, third-straight series win
An offensive outburst in the eighth inning Saturday led to baseball clinching its third-straight series victory of the season with a 10-2 win at Ohio.
The win at Athens also insured a series victory in the opening weekend of Mid-American Conference play.
After piecing together a run in the first and fifth innings the Bobcats tied the game with two runs in the seventh inning off senior right-handed pitcher, Pat Kaminska.
The Chippewas didn't stick around with Ohio for long as they took the lead with an RBI single from sophomore Morgan Oliver.
The Regnier brothers added a RBI each with junior Nick was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and sophomore Logan hit a sacrifice fly to tack on another tally.
Junior Tyler Huntey was back to his MAC Player of the Week form as he hit a two-run RBI double before junior Cody Leichman added the sixth CMU run in the eighth inning. What was a 2-2 game when Kaminska ended the seventh inning was a comfortable 8-2 lead in the middle of the eighth.
Kaminska, along with senior Kenton San Miguel, kept the Bobcats at two while the Chippewas added two more unneeded runs in the ninth.
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In the opener it was a pair of runs in the third and fourth innings leading to the 6-3 win in Athens.
Leichman hit a two-run triple in the third inning as he hit three RBIs in the game while Logan Regnier added a two-run RBI single in the fourth to take a lead his team wouldn't relinquish.
Junior right-handed ace Jordan Foley got the start went 6 1/3 innings as he received the win.
He was aided by sophomore left-handed pitcher Adam Aldred who threw 2 2/3 innings in relief as he picked up the save.
