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Baseball Uses Two-Out Magic To Defeat C-USA Foe Saint Louis, 10-3
May 14, 2004 NEW ORLEANS, La. - Sophomore Brian Bogusevic turned in his best two-way performance of the season, freshman Mark Hamilton tallied five RBI and the Green Wave used some two-out magic as the 13th-ranked Tulane University baseball team defeated Conference USA foe Saint Louis 10-3 Friday evening at Turchin Stadium. The Green Wave scored all 10 of its runs with two outs, and took advantage of a failed double play turn and a pair of errors in the first to plate four unearned runs to erase a 2-0 deficit. Eight of the nine Green Wave hitters tallied at least one base knock, including multiple-hit performances by Bogusevic, Hamilton, sophomore centerfielder Nathan Southard, junior right fielder Matt Barket and junior catcher Greg Dini. With the win, Tulane maintains its share of second place in the C-USA standings as Southern Miss also won on Friday night - defeating host Charlotte 11-4 - and improves to 35-15 overall and 18-7 in league play. Saint Louis, meanwhile, falls to 13-37 on the year and 4-20 in C-USA action. Making his first Friday-night start of the season, Bogusevic tied a career high with 10 strikeouts while scattering eight hits and walking just one in eight innings of work. At the plate, he went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBI in his best offensive performance of the season when he also takes the mound. Hamilton, meanwhile, tallied the first three-hit performance of his collegiate career by going 3-for-4 with a two-run single in the first and a towering three-run home run in the second.
Saint Louis took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first as centerfielder Kyle Wort doubled home shortstop Pat Steinhoff and designated hitter Scott Peden plated Wort with a single in the ensuing at-bat. The lead, however would be short-lived as the Green Wave loaded the bases in the home half of the frame before Hamilton tied things up with a bloop two-run single just out of reach of a diving Steinhoff in shallow left field.
Senior third baseman Brian Bormaster reloaded the bases when he reached on an error by his Billiken counterpart in the hot corner, Casey Moore, and Bogusevic made the second error of the stanza hurt with a two-run base hit to center to give Tulane a 4-2 lead it would not relinquish. One inning later, junior shortstop Tommy Manzella led off the frame with a double and would come around to score on a two-out RBI single by Barket to give the Green Wave a three-run lead, and following back-to-back singles by junior left fielder and Dini - who plated Barket - Hamilton fished out an ankle-high 0-1 offering by SLU starter Dave Guntorius and sent it over the wall in right to give the home team a commanding 9-2 advantage. Guntorius would settle down from there and give up just one more run the rest of the way - a two-out RBI-single by Southard to score Bormaster in the fifth - and the Billikens got a run in the top of the seventh as Saint Louis got a pinch-hit single from Brad Daubach and an RBI-knock from fellow situational hitter Neil Graser to account for the final score. Bogusevic got the win for the home team to improve to 8-4 on the year, and the Green Wave also got a scoreless inning from sophomore reliever Matt Goebel, who pitched his way around a hit batsman and a walk in the top of the ninth. Guntorius (3-7), meanwhile, was handed the loss after allowing 10 runs (six earned) on 14 hits in seven innings of work. Tulane and Saint Louis return to action on Saturday for game two of the weekend at 2 p.m. before closing out the final home game series for the Green Wave on Sunday with first pitch slated for 1 p.m. Both games will be broadcast live on the radio on the flagship station of Tulane baseball, WRBH 88.3 fm, and livestats will be provided on the internet at www.tulanegreenwave.com. For ticket information, contact the Tulane Athletics Ticket Office at (504) 861-WAVE. |
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