University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
UNC Asheville
Central Michigan
Bulldogs Drop Second Game of Double Header
02.28.2009 | Baseball
ASHEVILLE,N.C. ? UNC Asheville and Central Michigan played eight innings before the second game of their double-header has halted by darkness with the Chippewas leading 15-6. The game has been suspended until 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. However freezing rain and snow have caused the game to end after eight innings.
Central Michigan (3-4) jumped out early scoring two runs in the top of the first off Asheville starter Ryan Dull. After walks to Rhett Goodmiller and Casey Ingle were sandwiched around a single by Matt Faiman, the Chips had the bases loaded with one out. Nate Theunnissen hit a sacrifice fly to center field to plate Goodmiller. Faiman then stole third base and came home on a wild throw.
Asheville (2-6) answered in the bottom of the inning. Catlin Carter led off with a single to center field. He was sacrificed to second base and scored on a RBI single by Reed Krieser who is 4-for-4 in the game. Kreiser went to third base on a hit by Beau Zinman and scored on a RBI single by Cody Buch.
Kreiser gave the Bulldogs the lead with a solo home run to left field in the third inning. It was his second home run of the year.
CMU tied the game for the second time with an unearned run in the fourth. Theunnissen reached on an error to start the inning. He would score on a wild pitch as the Chips did not have a hit in the inning.
Asheville pushed three runs across in the fifth inning. Kevin Weidenbacher singled to lead off the inning and moved to second base on a balk by CMU starter Devan Kline. After Kreiser singled to put runners at the corners, Kline was called of another balk that plated Weidenbacher. After a pitching change, Zinman delivered a RBI-double to left field. Buch had a RBI ground out that made the score 6-3.
Zach Cooper (1-0) picked up the win as he settled in for CMU and pitched the next 3.2 innings allowing just four hits. His effort kept CMU in the game until the Chips exploded in the top of the seventh inning.
CMU scored eight times in the seventh taking advantage of sloppy fielding by UNC Asheville. With one on and one out, Schumer came into pitch for the Bulldogs. His first pitch was hit on one hope to third base for what looked like an inning ending double play but the throw to second was low and both runners were safe. The next batter hit a groundball to short stop that was bobbled just enough to allow Ricky Clark to beat the throw to first to keep the inning alive. The next eight batters all reached base by either hit or walk highlighted by a two-RBI single by Faiman that gave CMU the lead.
Faiman added a two-run home run in the eighth as the Chippewas added four more runs off the Asheville bullpen.
Schumer takes the loss fot the Bulldogs and drops to 0-2. UNC Asheville will travel to Clemson on Wednesday for a 4 p.m. game. The game can be heard live on uncabulldogs.com
