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Sunday - May 14, 2006

Game 52: Dallas Baptist at Texas

Kyle McCulloch seems to have recovered from the line drive he took the the ankle last week. He started and got the win. He only pitched 4 innings so must've been declared the pitcher of record before the game started. Kyle gave up 3 runs (2 earned) on 6 hits (4 of them doubles!), with 4 strikeouts, 0 (!) walks, and 1 hit batter. Riley Boening pitched 4 innings in relief and also did well. He didn't give up any runs on 4 hits (1 double), with 6 strikeouts and 3 walks. Randy Boone pitched the final inning for his 2nd save. He faced 3: strikeout (2-2 count), strikeout (9-pitch full count), and 53 ground out.

The line:

																			R	H	E
Dallas Baptist			0	1	1			1	0	0			0	0	0		-		3	10	3
Texas			2	1	2			0	1	0			0	0	x		-		6	8	1

Offensive highlights. Texas jumped on top in the 1st and stayed ahead throughout the game. They scored the first two runs as follows: Nick Peoples grounded out to p. Chance Wheeless walked. Drew stubbs singled up the middle (Chance moved to 3b). Drew stole 2b on the 4th pitch to Carson Kainer. The next pitch hit Carson to load the bases. Hunter Harris (enjoying Senior Day) walked on 4 pitches (rbi). Bradley Suttle flew out to cf (sac fly, rbi). Carson started toward 3b on the play, saw that cf was going to make the play fairly deep, so scrambled quickly back to 2b to tag up and advance to 3b. Alas, he was stranded there as Kyle Russell flew out to lf. In the 2nd, Preston Clark started things off by grounding out to ss. Chais Fuller was hit by the first pitch. Ouch. Nick reached on a 64 fielder's choice and stole 2b on the 2nd pitch to Chance. Chance smacked a very high pitch into lf for a double (rbi); I don't know how he got his bat on that ball. He moved to 3b as Drew reached on an error by Cody Montgomery (DBU ss). Chance was running at the crack of the bat and blocked Montgomery's view of the ball a bit as he ran to 3b. The ss couldn't handle the ball, bobbled it a bit, and threw very high to 1b (pulling the first baseman off the bag). Carson grounded out to 1b. In the 3rd, Hunter singled up the middle, moved to 2b on a sac bunt by Bradley, and scored on a single by Kyle. Kyle was caught stealing during Preston's at-bat for the 2nd out of the inning. Preston singled to lf and moved to 2b as the left fielder was unable to field the ball cleanly and then casually went after the ball (E7). Chais singled to rf (rbi). Dallas Baptist then sent Jordan Craft in to pitch. He struck Nick out on 3 pitches. Craft limited the Horns to 1 more run in the 5th as he pitched very nicely in relief. I don't know if he ever starts for DBU but I bet they wish they'd started him today! He pitched the final 5.1 innings and gave up 1 run on 2 hits with 4 strikeouts and 2 walks.

Other observations. The Horns had a shaky 2nd in the field. Chance allowed what looked like a routine ball to get through his legs...letting a run score. Later in the inning, Nick ran in front of Chais to grab a pop fly. It was clearly the short stop's ball and it looked like Chais had called for the ball. Weird. The Patriots got back-to-back doubles that were just barely fair down the 3b line in the 4th. They got one more in the second game of the double-header. It felt like they got about 6 of them on the day. But, no...only three. Preston picked a runner off at 1b in the 5th. Sweet. The Texas pitchers combined for 12 strikeouts. Also sweet.

I'll post on the 2nd game later. It's already 3 in the morning. Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there! Y'all rock!

Posted by Joanna at 3:09 AM