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| 5.12.04
- The Foresters gave the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC)
top-seeded Indiana Tech Warriors a battle but fell 8-7 in 11
innings. Aquinas College then ousted HC from the tournament
with a convincing 14-4 win. In the opener, Indiana Tech took
an early 4-1 lead after two innings, but two long balls in the top
of the fifth put the Foresters on top. HC's Brian Porter led
off the inning with a solo jack and five batters later with the
bases juiced, Aaron Klopfenstein belted his first homerun of the
season to give the Foresters a 6-4 lead. The Warriors battled
back with two in the bottom of the sixth to tie it at 6-6, a score
that held through the next three innings. In the top of the
tenth, HC got the go-ahead run on a clutch two-out RBI double by Tim
Burris, but couldn't make it stick as Indiana Tech evened it up
again in their half of the inning. After holding the Foresters
in the top of the eleventh, Indiana Tech hit a two-out, solo homerun
off relief pitcher Josh Lahr (0-3) for the win. In game
two, HC owned a 4-0 lead after scoring three runs in the top of the
fourth, but then the wheels fell off. Aquinas scored nine
unearned runs in their half of the fourth and the Foresters never
recovered. The Saints went on to score another run in the
sixth and three more in the bottom of the seventh to bring the game
to an abrupt end by the 10-run rule. Joel Kennedy (7-4) took
the loss for HC. He pitched six innings and gave up 10 runs,
one earned, on 11 hits with one walk and three strikeouts. The
Foresters conclude their season with a 19-23 record. |
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