LISLE, IL - The Benedictine University baseball team used three runs in the bottom of the seventh to win a fifth consecutive contest, taking down visiting UW-Oshkosh on Tuesday night.
FINAL SCORE
Benedictine 5, UW-Oshkosh 2
THE DETAILS
• UW-Oshkosh took the lead on the very first batter of the game with a solo homer
• The run would be the lone tally surrendered by Drake Berman, who made his first collegiate start
• Benedictine grabbed a 2-1 lead with a pair of runs in the bottom of the third
• Nicholas Quick led off with a walk and Nick Severino followed with a single
• Jack Feeley worked the count full before singling home the tying run
• The go-ahead run scored on a throwing error following a stolen base
• The visitors tied the game with a single run in the top of the seventh
• Benedictine wasted no time in answering, re-taking the lead three batters into the bottom of the frame
• Chayancze Stirbis drove home the eventual winner with a double to left-center
• Andrew Hotze and Erik Callaghan lifted sacrifice flies to add insurance
• UW-Oshkosh brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth, but Marty Maves closed out his fifth save of the season
STAT LEADERS
• Berman worked five innings, exiting with the lead after allowing just one run on four hits with a pair of strikeouts
• Will Diessner tabulated the win in his first decision of they year after tossing just .1 inning
• Maves worked the final two
• Benedictine finished with nine hits
• Feeley collected three, reaching base four times
• Jimmy McLaughlin and Severino each tallied a pair of hits
• Tanner Kiser reached three times and extended his hitting streak to 17 games, longest in the conference
UP NEXT
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Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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UW-Oshkosh (13-13) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
Benedictine (18-10) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | X | 5 | 9 | 1 |