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 Matt Cunningham had two hits and two RBI in Tuesday's 8-0 victory. |
April 24, 2007
DETROIT, Mich. - The Wayne State baseball team (23-17) scored six runs in the first inning and recorded its first shutout of the season, an 8-0 victory over Tiffin (17-27) in the first game of a doubleheader Tuesday afternoon.
Matthew Williams (Detroit, Mich./Royal Oak Shrine) and Matt Cunningham (Gregory, Mich./Chelsea) each had two hits and two runs batted in, and Anthony Bass (Trenton, Mich.) recorded his team-high sixth win of the season.
The Warriors sent 11 hitters to the plate in their six-run first inning. Ryan LaPensee (LaSalle, Ont./St. Thomas of Villanova) doubled, stole third, and scored on a bunt single by Williams. After Tony Hines (Detroit, Mich./Mumford) and Derek Ranck (Clarkston, Mich.) were each hit by a pitch, Jon Weisman (Woodhaven, Mich.) drew a bases-loaded walk to bring in Williams.
Hines scored on a sacrifice fly by Brett Witczak (Hudsonville, Mich.), and a two-run single to right by Cunningham plated Ranck and Weisman. Cunningham would come in to score an unearned run on a Tiffin fielding error.
RBI singles by Weisman in the second and Williams in the third accounted for the Warriors' last two runs.
After surrendering a leadoff double in the first inning, Bass (6-2) did not allow another hit over his five innings of work. He walked one and struck out six.
Yuki Minagawa (Troy, Mich.) pitched a perfect sixth inning, but Tiffin was able to load the bases with no outs in the seventh on a double, a walk, and a single. Minagawa worked out of the jam, however, to leave the runners stranded and preserve the shutout.
