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 Jon Weisman hit his eighth home run of the season in Tuesday's loss. |
April 10, 2007
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - The Wayne State baseball team (18-11) went on the road and took a Division I Mid-American Conference opponent to extra innings for the third time this season, but saw its record in those games dip to 0-3 following a 5-4, 10-inning setback at MAC West-leading Central Michigan (19-12) on Tuesday afternoon.
The Warriors are winless in four games overall, all of which have been away from Detroit, against MAC schools this season.
Jon Weisman (Woodhaven, Mich.) went 2-for-4, including a two-run homer in the eighth inning, and Derek Ranck (Clarkston, Mich.) singled three times for his team-leading 15th multiple-hit game of the season.
Central Michigan struck first with a run in the opening frame off WSU starter Dane Little (Windsor, Ont./F.J. Brennan Catholic), but an RBI single through the left side by Ranck brought Brett Witczak (Hudsonville, Mich.) across to tie the score in the third.
Bob Schmidt (Oxford, Mich.) led off the fourth inning with a double to deep left field and crossed home plate after a pair of sacrifice bunts by Caleb Dalman (Hudsonville, Mich.) and Matthew Williams (Detroit, Mich./Royal Oak Shrine), giving Wayne State a 2-1 lead.
Several Warrior hurlers saw relief work in the game, as Dan Barnes (Grand Ledge, Mich.) left two CMU runners stranded in the third, and Anthony Bass (Trenton, Mich.) worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the fifth to keep the Chippewas at bay.
The home team came out firing in the sixth, however, plating three runs on four hits to gain a 4-2 advantage until Weisman's two-run blast to right center in the eighth tied the score at four apiece.
Kyle Hill (Mississauga, Ont./St. Michael's) kept Central Michigan off the board in the seventh and eighth, and Kevin Kadrofske (Roseville, Mich./Lutheran East) pitched a scoreless ninth to send the game to extra innings, where CMU's Dale Cornstubble hit a bases-loaded single to left in the 10th off of Williams, who came in from third base to pitch and took the loss (0-1) in just his second relief appearance this season.
Wayne State will take on another MAC school tomorrow as the Warriors travel to Ypsilanti to face Eastern Michigan at 3:00 p.m. The nine-inning contest will be broadcast on the Internet via Teamline.
