The Carthage College baseball team (8-11, 3-6 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) took out two weeks of frustration on CCIW-opponent and No. 20 North Park University (21-5, 7-2 CCIW) with a 7-0 win on Wednesday, April 11 at the Carthage Baseball Field in Kenosha, Wis.

Carthage took a 1-0 lead in the opening inning on an RBI-single to short by Andrew Arenson.  The Red Men proceeded to load the bases, and Mike Gentile delivered a sharp, two-out single to left to score two for a 3-0 lead.  The Red Men made it 4-0 in the second.  Tyler Eickmeyer singled to second and reached second on a throwing error by Vikings second baseman Mike Coduto.  Eickmeyer advanced to third on a foul pop and scored on a throwing error by third baseman Ryan Javech.  Carthage went up, 5-0, in the third on an RBI-single by Andrew Arenson.  A sacrifice fly by Arenson in the fourth and an RBI-single by Kyle Pusateri closed out the scoring at 7-0.

Eric Rohe (Sr., Mundelein, Ill., 2-2) pitched a brilliant game, allowing just three singles over nine innings, walking none and striking out three.  Rohe also picked off three baserunners at first and made a circus play to throw out Mike Coduto at first to end the eighth inning after first baseman Joey Aiello bobbled a grounder.  Travis Boyer (1-1) was the losing pitcher.  Tyler Eickmeyer (Sr., Kenosha, Wis./Somers-Shoreland Lutheran) went three-for-four, with Andrew Arenson (Sr., Schaumburg, Ill.) and Mike Gentile (So., Grayslake, Ill./Central) each driving in two runs.

"We had to use our best pitcher, Eric Rohe, in a mid-week game" said Carthage coach Augie Schmidt IV," and I'm glad we did.  We put ourselves in a bad position to have to do that, but that was as good of a pitching effort as I've ever seen at Carthage.  He's had some rough luck this year, but he's a great pitcher.  North Park likes to run, and Rohe took that running game away.  He controls baserunners better than any pitcher on our staff, and that's another reason we started him today.  He may be as good at that part of the game as pitcher in NCAA Division III.  We showed we have some fight left, and we seemed to play with better confidence today.  We felt if we could get this one, we can play our way back into things just by winning our remaining series with Illinois Wesleyan, Elmhurst, Millikin and Wheaton."

Carthage plays host to Concordia University (Wis., 8-10) on Thursday, April 12 in a 3 p.m. game, also at the Carthage Baseball Field.