TicketsFeb. 24, 2007
Game One Box Score | Game Two Box Score
GREENSBORO, N.C.---Cincinnati's bats came to life as the Bearcats finished a sweep of North Carolina A&T with a resounding 18-1 victory on Saturday at War Memorial Stadium. The thrashing came on the heels of a 4-1 triumph in game one of the twinbill.
There were many offensive heroes for the Bearcats (3-5) including Tony Campana who set a school record with six stolen bases. Brian Szarmach just missed a career-high with five RBI, while Campana scored a personal best four runs. Adam Yeager and Josh Harrison added four and three runs, respectively to the cause.
Lost in the offensive fireworks was the pitching performance of Michael Hill. Making his first start in a Cincinnati uniform, Hill was brilliant, yielding just two hits and no walks in six shutout innings, while striking out five. Hill departed after retiring 17 of the last 19 hitters he faced, including 15 straight at one point.
The Bearcats started early, jumping on Aggie starter Nick Rogers for five runs in the first two frames. Campana, who reached on an infield single and a walk in consecutive innings, was the catalyst, swiping four bases and scoring a pair of runs.
Cincinnati really broke the game open in the fourth, scoring five times to go up 10-0. RBI doubles by Cameron Satterwhite and Neall French, along with a Szarmach run-scoring single provided the highlights of the inning.
UC went right back to it in the sixth, posting four more runs, three on a bases clearing double by Szarmach. The Bearcats' final markers of the day came in the ninth when Cory Hodskins drew a bases loaded walk and Campana recorded an RBI groundout.
The lone run of the day for North Carolina A&T (1-3) came courtesy of a Phillip Brewington fielder's choice in the eighth.
Game 1 Recap
Cincinnati scored three times in the top of the eighth to snap a one-all tie, leading the Bearcats to a 4-1 win over North Carolina A&T in game one of Saturday's doubleheader. The Bearcats used an outstanding pitching effort from Dan Osterbrock to gain the win.
Osterbrock (1-0), one half of UC's stellar sophomore duo, allowed just one unearned run in the second inning in gaining his first win of the year. The Cincinnati native yielded just four hits and three walks, while striking out a career-high six.
After a Brian Szarmach homer in the second, the Bearcats didn't score again until the go-ahead outburst in the eighth. Tony Campana started the frame with a walk, stole second and went to third on a fly ball off of the bat of Michael Obyc. After Josh Harrison was hit by a pitch and stole second, Cameron Satterwhite lofted a deep fly ball to center that plated Campana and moved Harrison to third. UC added the insurance it would need with a run-scoring single by Szarmach and an RBI double by Adam Yeager.
North Carolina A&T got its lone run in the second when Kory Kinnear ripped a double off the right field wall and scored when a grounder eluded Harrison at second for an error.
Osterbrock stayed out of trouble for much of the contest, only to see the Aggies put together their most serious threat in the seventh when Kinnear and Joe McIntyre led the inning off with consecutive singles. Joe Wade tried to lay down a sacrifice bunt, but popped it up to Osterbrock who made an athletic play, before spinning and doubling pinch runner Phillip Brewington off of second.
Head coach Brian Cleary turned the ball over to Billy Welsh in the eighth and the junior recorded the final six outs for his second save of the season. Welsh has not allowed a run or a hit in 7.2 innings of work this year.
Tim Johnson, a former teammate of Campana's at UNC Asheville, was the hard luck loser of the pitching duel with Osterbrock, taking the loss after allowing two runs, four hits and four walks in seven innings. Johnson also recorded six strikeouts.
Szarmach paced the Cincinnati offense with two hits, two runs and two RBI, while Campana added a pair of hits, two walks and two stolen bases. Kinnear gathered two of the Aggies' four hits for the afternoon.
The Bearcats open the home portion of the schedule next weekend, hosting Dartmouth in a three-game series. Action gets underway on Saturday, with a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.