TicketsNov. 6, 2006
CINCINNATI, Ohio---Nick Maragas doubled twice and homered to lead the Red team to an 8-5 victory in game two of Cincinnati's annual intrasquad World Series on Sunday afternoon at Marge Schott Stadium. With the victory, the Red team now holds a 1-0-1 lead in the best of five series that will wrap up the fall practice season for the Bearcats.
Team Red pounded out 13 hits on the afternoon, with Jamel Scott collecting three and Adam Yeager and Kyle Rapp tacking on two apiece. Brian Garman picked up the win on the hill, hurling three shutout innings of relief.
The Black team collected five hits for the game, including a pair by Brian Szarmach. Ryan Baker homered for the second time in as many days to highlight the afternoon for the Black team.
Both teams put up runs in the first inning, with Red's coming on a Rapp single that plated Josh Harrison. The Black team answered with Baker's bomb to right center off of Nick Buscemi.
The Black team would assume a 3-1 lead after three frames with single runs in each of the second and third innings. In the second, freshman Michael Earley led off with a double and came around to score on two ground ball outs, the second coming off the bat of John Virostko. In the third, Cameron Satterwhite reached on a one out error and following a single by Szarmach, trotted home on a Cory Hodskins RBI double.
The Red team then exploded for six runs over the next three innings to take a lead it would not relinquish. In the fourth, Red used the long ball to tie the game at three, with Rapp doubling to lead off the inning and two batters later scoring on Maragas' two-run blast to right. A three-run outburst was on tap in the fifth with a Harrison RBI single highlighting the scoring. Red finished its explosion in the sixth when Keith Kampe scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Harrison.
In the seventh, the Black team got one of the runs back to pull within 7-4. Tony Campana led off with a walk and promptly stole two bases, before scoring on a Szarmach sacrifice fly. The Red team rebuilt its four-run cushion in its half of the eighth inning as Scott tripled and scored on a Yeager groundout. The scoring for the afternoon was finished up in the last of the ninth as Baker came home on a Hodskins sacrifice fly.
Game three of the World Series will take place on Friday (Nov. 10), with first pitch at 2:30 p.m.