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 Paul LaMantia hit a home run and totaled four RBI against Findlay. |
March 28, 2009
DETROIT - For the second straight game, the Wayne State University baseball team (12-10, 6-2 GLIAC) put together an eight-run third inning and scored 15 runs altogether. In the first game of Saturday's doubleheader against the University of Findlay (4-17, 2-6 GLIAC), WSU came away with a 15-2 victory.
Adam Kaminski (Clinton Twp., Mich./Mt. Clemens) went 3-for-4 and collected a career-high six runs batted in, while Paul LaMantia (Tecumseh, Ont./St. Anne's) had two hits, scored two runs and drove in four. Matthew Williams (Detroit, Mich./Royal Oak Shrine) posted his team-best fifth three-hit game and scored three runs.
A two-run single by LaMantia gave Wayne State a 2-0 lead in the first inning. The Warriors went ahead by five in the second frame after Kyle Vesey (Brighton, Mich.) scored on a throwing error by UF starting pitcher Preston Zachrich and Kaminski hit a two-run single through the right side.
Findlay put a run on the board in the top of the third on an RBI single by Kyle Wilson.
Seven of the eight runs Wayne State scored in the bottom half were unearned, stemming from two defensive miscues by the Oilers.
LaMantia struck out to lead off the inning but reached on a passed ball. After Phil Swanson (Rochester Hills, Mich./Stoney Creek) singled and Charlie Dunneback (Lansing, Mich./Grand Ledge) walked, Williams plated LaMantia with a single.
Jamie Bailey (Petrolia, Ont./Lambton) was hit by a pitch to make it a 7-1 game, and Kaminski followed with a bases-clearing double off the wall in left center. He would come in on a base hit by Michael Wiseman (White Lake, Mich./Lakeland).
The Warriors took a 13-1 lead on a two-run shot over the Green Monster in left by LaMantia, his second home run in a WSU uniform.
Nathaniel Fitch's solo homer to left center in the fifth provided the only other Findlay run before WSU added two more in the sixth.
Tyler Loehr (Brighton, Mich.) improved his record to 2-2 on the season, giving up just five hits and a walk in 5.0 innings before Justin Sylvester (Macomb, Mich./Dakota) finished the job. Both Warrior hurlers recorded three strikeouts.
NOTES
Ryan LaPensee (LaSalle, Ont./St. Thomas of Villanova) extended his hitting streak to a career-best 12 games with a single in the sixth ... Wayne State's 15 runs marked its highest total ever against Findlay ... all three of Sylvester's strikeouts came in the final inning.
