TicketsBearcats Miss Sweep With 12-1 Loss To 49ers
UC back in action Tuesday
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5/9/2004
Steve Pickerell extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a double in Sunday's loss to Charlotte. |
CHARLOTTE, N.C.?Charlotte scored 10 runs in the first two innings and never looked back as they avoided a series sweep, rolling past Cincinnati 12-1 on Sunday afternoon in college baseball action.
The 49ers? Zach Treadway went the distance on the mound, limiting the Bearcats to just eight hits in a game shortened to seven innings by Conference USA?s Sunday run rule. The senior from Oxford, Ohio struck out four, while walking just one in improving to 4-6 on the year. UC falls to 12-35 on the year and 5-19 in C-USA, while Charlotte is now 20-26 and 9-15 in league play.
Cincinnati pushed its lone run of the day across in the third inning when a Pat LeMasters? groundout brought home Erik Eitel. Another highlight for the Bearcats came in the second inning when Steve Pickerell doubled to continue his career-best hitting streak, stretching it to 13 games.
Charlotte started the fireworks early touching starting pitcher Jim Olds (0-2) for four first inning runs. Jamie Rusco had the big hit of the inning with his 14th home run of the season with a man on. The second inning proved to be more of the same as the 49ers exploded for six runs, sending 10 batters to the plate and sending Olds to the showers early. Errors plagued the Bearcats in the frame, though as three of the runs plated in the second were unearned.
The 49ers rounded out the day?s scoring with single runs in the fourth and fifth innings. In the fourth, Kris Rochelle plated Randall Poplin with an RBI single and one inning later, Adam Willard homered to right, his seventh blast of the season.
Both Tommy Bowker and Adam Floyd registered three hits each, while Willard drove in three runs and Rusco two. Cincinnati?s only player with multiple hits was Mark Muscenti, who went 2-for-4 with a double.
The Bearcats will return to action on Tuesday, traveling to Ball State for a 3 p.m. contest. UC?s next C-USA action comes next weekend, when the Bearcats visit Memphis for a three-game set.