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Wayne State Recap
Sports
Information Department
Trevor James Hawes, Graduate Assistant
Phone: (814) 871-7418
Date: March 21, 2008
GANNON
BASEBALL DROPS HOME
OPENER TO WAYNE STATE
ERIE, Pa. – The Gannon University baseball
team played its first pair of Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference (GLIAC) home games of the 2008 season against Wayne State
Friday afternoon; however, the Golden Knights were unable to defeat the
Warriors, dropping game one 6-1 and game two 16-3.
Jonathan Dziomba (Williamsville,
N.Y./St. Joe’s Collegiate) scored Gannon’s only run in the first
game. Dziomba reached first on an error in the sixth inning and reached
third on the error. The junior reached home on an error by pitcher
Anthony Bass.
Bass earned the win, striking out 13 batters and allowing seven hits
and one walk in all seven innings.
Nick Lisckai (Paris Ontario/Paris District) suffered the loss. Lisckai
struck-out four batters and allowed four hits and five walks in seven
innings.
Wayne State (4-7, 2-0 GLIAC) opened game two with two runs, but Gannon
answered back with a run at the bottom of the first.
Eric Harpster (Erie, Pa./McDowell)
reached first after being hit by a pitch. Dziomba scored Harpster with
an RBI double to right field.
The Golden Knights (2-6, 0-2 GLIAC) scored again in the third inning
courtesy of Dziomba’s second RBI of game two which scored Shane Braendel (Erie, Pa./Cathedral Prep)
from second base.
Gannon’s final run came in the fourth inning. Braendel scored Chris Miller (Franklin, Pa./Franklin)
with an RBI single down the left-field line.
Wayne State’s Dane Little earned the win. Little struck-out 12 batters
and allowed six hits and one walk in seven innings.
Harpster recorded the loss. The junior struck-out one batter and
allowed seven hits, eight runs, and seven walks in four and two-thirds
innings.
Gannon and Wayne State square off again at Gannon University field on
Saturday, March 23. The doubleheader is scheduled to begin at noon.
A complete box score for game one can be found at http://www.gannon.edu/sports/men/baseball/STATS.HTM/game07.htm.
A complete box score for game two can be found at http://www.gannon.edu/sports/men/baseball/STATS.HTM/game08.htm.
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3/21/08 by: tjh
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