University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
UNC Asheville
Coastal Carolina
Bulldogs Drop One-Run Game in Series Finale
04.20.2008 | Baseball
CONWAY, S.C.? In front of a national television audience on ESPNU, UNC Asheville's Michael Bogaert threw seven strong innings but No. 19 ranked Coastal Carolina pulled out a 3-2 victory in the final game of series on Sunday afternoon.
UNC Asheville (16-27, 2-10 Big South) falls to 0-6 in Big South road games with four of the six losses by one run. Half of the Dogs conference losses this season have been by one run.
David Sappelt's sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning made a winner out of Coastal Carolina (33-7, 10-2 Big South) reliever Pete Andrelczyk (4-0) who went two innings allowing just one hit.
Bogart (5-4) threw 127 pitches in seven plus innings. He allowed three runs (two earned) on 10 hits walking three and fanning three. The junior pitched out of a bases loaded jam in the seventh inning but allowed a lead off double to Tyler Bortnick to start the eighth inning.
Justin Schumer came on in relief of Bogart. Chance Gilmore laid down a sacrifice bunt and reached first base on a throwing error placing runners at first and third with no one out. Schumer struck out Rico Noel and walked Scott Woodward to load the bases. Sappelt's fly ball to center field scored Bortnick from third base with the game winner..
Coastal opened the scoring in the second inning. After two were out, Gilmore singled and stole second base. Noel singled to third base to score Gilmore and on the throw to the plate moved up to second where he would score on a RBI single by Woodward to put the Chanticleers up 2-0.
Asheville cut the CCU lead in half with an unearned run in the third inning. Kevin Mattison reached on an error in front of a single by Kevin Weidenbacher which moved Mattison to third base. Elliott Arrington followed with a RBI single to plate Mattison, but Weidenbacher was thrown out at third base for the second out of the inning.
The Bulldogs tied the game in the fifth. Catlin Carter double down the right field line with one out and scored on a RBI single by Weidenbacher who went 2-for-3 on the day. Arrington also had two hits on the afternoon and Beau Zinman went 3-for-4 to lead the Dogs 10 hit attack.
Asheville will return home on Tuesday, April 22, as it host future Big South rival Gardner-Webb at McCormick Field. First pitch is set for 7 p.m. and the game will be video streamed on bigsouthsports.com.
