Team defeats George Mason, 11-5, and North Florida 10-8, now 6-0.
No. 30 Ohio State picked up two wins Saturday to improve to 6-0 on the season. The Buckeyes defeated North Florida, 10-8, in the nightcap after defeating George Mason, 11-5, earlier in the day.
Against North Florida, Ohio State scored eight two-out runs while amassing double digit runs and hits for the third consecutive game. Ohio State built a 9-3 lead through its half of the sixth inning on the strength of four hits and three RBI from Zach Hurley and two hits and three RBI from Dan Burkhart.
North Florida (2-6), behind four home runs for the game and a five-run sixth inning, made it a game of it at 10-8 heading into the eighth inning. The Ospreys loaded the bases with one out, but Jake Hale got a strikeout and a ground out to end the inning and preserve the Buckeyes’ two-run lead.
After holding the Buckeyes in check in the top of the ninth, the Ospreys came right back and put two men on in the top of the ninth with nobody out. But Hale got an infield pop out, a ground-out force play at second off a heads-up play by Matt Streng, and a strikeout to secure his second save of the season and 13th of his career. Hale pitched the final 1.2 innings.
Starter Dean Wolosiansky got the win with 5.2 innings of work. The sophomore picked up his first win this year after allowing eight hits and six earned runs while striking out six and walking three.
Hurley led a spirited offensive attack for Ohio State with a career-high five hits and career-high four RBI. The junior from Cincinnati had a double, triple and three singles. Michael Arp had a couple of hits, a run and an RBI. A total of eight different Buckeyes had either an RBI or a run scored in the game.
In the first game Ohio State broke open a tight game with six runs off five hits in the fifth inning to defeat George Mason, 11-5. Hurley, enjoying a birthday weekend with the team along with pitcher Josh Barrera, led off the fifth with a home run to right field to increase Ohio State’s lead to 2-0. Then with one out in the inning, six consecutive Buckeyes reached base, including run-scoring singles by Burkhart, Cory Rupert, Ryan Dew and Arp. An RBI groundout by Tyler Engle drove in the sixth run of the inning and the Buckeyes cruised from there.
Starting pitcher Alex Wimmers went 5.2 innings to pick up his second win of the season. The sophomore from Cincinnati scattered eight hits, allowed just one earned run, struck out seven and walked three.
Wimmers wasn’t quite as sharp as he was one week ago in a win over Notre Dame, but he was effective when he needed to be. He got out of a two-out, bases loaded jam in the second inning and he loaded them up in the third, as well, with a hit and a pair of walks. With one out, he struck out Shane Davis and he followed with a ground out to get out of the inning without surrendering a run.
Ohio State grabbed the lead, 1-0, in the fourth as Rupert reached on a one-out infield single and Dew moved him to third with a perfect, hit-and-run single to left. Arp followed with a line drive single to right to drive in the first run of the game and the first run this season off Kevin Crum, a solid freshman starter for the Patriots who lasted 4.1 innings and dropped to 1-1 on the year.
Wimmers’ first easy inning – he struck out the side in the fourth – sparked the Buckeyes because one-half inning later they sent 10 men to the plate in the decisive, six-run fifth.
Dew homered for a second consecutive game, a solo shot in the seventh, for his third hit of the game. He led a middle of the lineup attack as the No. 6 hitter Rupert, No. 7 Dew and No. 8 Arp each had multiple hits against the Patriots while combining for four runs scored and five RBI. Arp had three hits and Michael Stephens had his first three-hit game as a Buckeye while contributing a pair of runs and steals, respectively.
The Buckeyes conclude their four-games-in-Jacksonville weekend by taking on Connecticut at 11 a.m. at Harmon Stadium…weather permitting.
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
Buckeyes Defeat Ospreys, 11-6; Now 4-0
Dan Burkhart and Ryan Dew combine for seven RBI; Rucinski gets win
No. 30 Ohio State improved to 4-0 with an 11-6 win over North Florida Friday at Harmon Stadium on the campus of UNF. Dan Burkhart had four hits and four RBI and Ryan Dew had three RBI to lead the offensive charge.
Six errors by North Florida and a host of other oddities turned the game into a strange affair.
Ohio State scored its first, first-inning runs of the season by tallying two runs off two hits, two errors, a wild pitch and a past ball. Burkhart had a two-RBI single to drive home Ohio State’s runs.
UNF tied it in its half of the first as Michael Smith hit his first collegiate home run – a two-run shot – out of the park in left field.
No runs were scored in the second, but at the end of two the crowd of 874 fans on hand had seen three errors, a wild pitch, a passed ball, a pop-out double play to the catcher, and a runner caught stealing.
And by the end of the third inning things had gotten even weirder. Ohio State scored four unearned runs in their half of the third on two, two-run home runs to right center field by Burkhart and Dew. The plays were aided by a called third strike passed ball that put Michael Stephens on first base, a line drive to short that was ruled an intentional drop, thus negating a sure double play with Stephens off first, and a catcher’s interference. Burkhart and Dew took advantage of the miscues by bashing their first home runs of the season.
UNF put two men on its half of the third, but Michael Stephens made a diving catch in center and Michael Arp nailed a runner at the plate for the team’s first outfield assist of the season to keep the score 6-2 at the end of three.
UNF starter Phil Rorabaugh ran into trouble in the fifth by way of a hit batsmen and a double. Reliever Tucker Pryor allowed two runs after taking over for Rorabaugh, on a single by Cory Rupert and a sacrifice fly by Dew.
North Florida closed the gap to 8-4 in the fifth on another two-run home run, this one by Brian Wilson. Two batters later, Drew Rucinski relieved starter Andrew Armstrong, who went 4.1 innings and allowed eight hits, four runs and three walks in a no decision. After giving up a walk to load the bases with one out, Rucinski got Ryan Puskar to line to first for a double play to end the inning.
Ohio State extended the lead to 9-4 in the sixth, scoring a run on a wild pitch, and the team added two more unearned runs in the seventh, compliments of a three-error UNF inning that allowed the Buckeyes to have six outs.
In addition to the errors, North North Florida, a team that led Mississippi State late and only lost to Michigan by one, hit three batters, threw two wild pitches, had a catcher’s interference and a player caught stealing, gave up six unearned runs, hit into three double plays, only walked two batters, hit four home runs and outhit Ohio State, 13-11.
Rucinski got the win to improve to 2-0 this season. Jake Hale pitched a scoreless ninth inning, getting two strikeouts in the process.
The two teams will go at it again Saturday night at 7 p.m. Although some rain is in the forecast for Saturday, Ohio State is scheduled to play George Mason at 3 p.m. at UNF’s Harmon Stadium followed by a second game against North Florida. Sophomores Alex Wimmers and Dean Wolosiansky are the scheduled starters in the two games, respectively.
Game Notes & Recap
No. 30 Ohio State improved to 4-0 with an 11-6 win over North Florida Friday at Harmon Stadium on the campus of UNF. Dan Burkhart had four hits and four RBI and Ryan Dew had three RBI to lead the offensive charge.
Six errors by North Florida and a host of other oddities turned the game into a strange affair.
Ohio State scored its first, first-inning runs of the season by tallying two runs off two hits, two errors, a wild pitch and a past ball. Burkhart had a two-RBI single to drive home Ohio State’s runs.
UNF tied it in its half of the first as Michael Smith hit his first collegiate home run – a two-run shot – out of the park in left field.
No runs were scored in the second, but at the end of two the crowd of 874 fans on hand had seen three errors, a wild pitch, a passed ball, a pop-out double play to the catcher, and a runner caught stealing.
And by the end of the third inning things had gotten even weirder. Ohio State scored four unearned runs in their half of the third on two, two-run home runs to right center field by Burkhart and Dew. The plays were aided by a called third strike passed ball that put Michael Stephens on first base, a line drive to short that was ruled an intentional drop, thus negating a sure double play with Stephens off first, and a catcher’s interference. Burkhart and Dew took advantage of the miscues by bashing their first home runs of the season.
UNF put two men on its half of the third, but Michael Stephens made a diving catch in center and Michael Arp nailed a runner at the plate for the team’s first outfield assist of the season to keep the score 6-2 at the end of three.
UNF starter Phil Rorabaugh ran into trouble in the fifth by way of a hit batsmen and a double. Reliever Tucker Pryor allowed two runs after taking over for Rorabaugh, on a single by Cory Rupert and a sacrifice fly by Dew.
North Florida closed the gap to 8-4 in the fifth on another two-run home run, this one by Brian Wilson. Two batters later, Drew Rucinski relieved starter Andrew Armstrong, who went 4.1 innings and allowed eight hits, four runs and three walks in a no decision. After giving up a walk to load the bases with one out, Rucinski got Ryan Puskar to line to first for a double play to end the inning.
Ohio State extended the lead to 9-4 in the sixth, scoring a run on a wild pitch, and the team added two more unearned runs in the seventh, compliments of a three-error UNF inning that allowed the Buckeyes to have six outs.
In addition to the errors, North North Florida, a team that led Mississippi State late and only lost to Michigan by one, hit three batters, threw two wild pitches, had a catcher’s interference and a player caught stealing, gave up six unearned runs, hit into three double plays, only walked two batters, hit four home runs and outhit Ohio State, 13-11.
Rucinski got the win to improve to 2-0 this season. Jake Hale pitched a scoreless ninth inning, getting two strikeouts in the process.
The two teams will go at it again Saturday night at 7 p.m. Although some rain is in the forecast for Saturday, Ohio State is scheduled to play George Mason at 3 p.m. at UNF’s Harmon Stadium followed by a second game against North Florida. Sophomores Alex Wimmers and Dean Wolosiansky are the scheduled starters in the two games, respectively.
Game Notes & Recap
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