TicketsBearcats Hammer KSU For 20th Win
UC opens TCU series Friday
Contact: Shawn Sell
5/5/2005
Dustin Alvey scored four runs in UC's win over Kentucky State. |
CINCINNATI, Ohio---The University of Cincinnati baseball team picked up its 20th win of the 2005 season with a convincing 18-0 pounding of Kentucky State on Thursday night in the UC Baseball Stadium.
The outcome of the contest was never really in doubt as the Bearcats pulled away with a 10-run third inning explosion. UC (20-23) pounded out a season-high 18 hits, while allowing the Thorobreds just four. Nick Buscemi (2-2) tossed four shutout innings to earn the win, while matching his career-high with five strikeouts. Brian Beltz also made his collegiate pitching debut hurling a pair of shutout frames.
The Bearcat offense got three hits from Mark Haske, while LaFringe Hayes, Mark Muscenti, Jon DeLuca and Dustin Alvey each added two. Brian Szarmach drove in a career-high five runs and Muscenti, Haske and Logan Parker tallied three RBI for the Bearcats.
UC got on the board with a three-spot in the first as Parker blasted his seventh homer of the year to deep right center with two men aboard. The Bearcats scored three more times in the second, with an RBI single by Muscenti and a sacrifice fly by Szarmach highlighting the frame.
The third inning was the Bearcats? breakout inning as 15 batters came to the plate. Muscenti started the scoring with his second RBI single, just prior to Haske?s two-run single up the middle. Two batters later with the bases loaded, Szarmach ripped his first career grand slam to right field. The long ball was Szarmach?s 10th of 2005. Hayes also came up big in the frame, belting his sixth triple of the year to left center to plate two runs.
UC rounded out its scoring in the fifth, getting a sacrifice fly from Muscenti and another run-scoring single from Haske for the final two runs.
In addition to Beltz pitching for the first time, a trio of Bearcat senior hurlers were able to bat for the first time in their respective careers. Kyle Markle, Justin Minges and Mike Foley all took a turn at the plate, with Foley picking up a single and also playing two innings at first base.
The Bearcats will now open a three-game series with TCU on Friday night in the UC Baseball Stadium. Lance Broadway, a 10-game winner, will get the start for TCU, taking on the Bearcats? Minges.