Crusaders
Split Key WHAC Double Header with Aquinas
Will Kennedy Reaches 200 K's in Game One Win
April 2, 2008
GAME 1 BOX SCORE
| GAME 2 BOX SCORE
LIVONIA, Mich.
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The Madonna
University baseball team split a pair of key WHAC contests versus visiting
Aquinas College Wednesday (April 2), at Ilitch Ballpark. The Crusaders (16-7,
6-2) erased a two-run deficit in game one for starting pitcher Will Kennedy
(Westland, Mich.) who picked up the win and his 200th career
strikeout, becoming the first ever MU pitcher to reach that plateau.
Senior DH Dave Herrick
(Westland, Mich.) totaled three hits on the day while freshman Shawn
Little (Canton, Mich.) scored a pair of runs in game one and Zack
McMillin (Grand Ledge, Mich.) delivered the game winning RBI.
The Crusaders used a
three-run sixth inning to pick up the game one victory. Down 3-2, MU
started their comeback with a RBI single by Little to tie the game 3-3.
McMillin then delivered a bases-loaded fielders choice to put MU up 4-3 and
Jeff Sonnenberg (Lansing, Mich.) added the insurance run on a
pinch-hit RBI single to left.
Game two proved to be a
pitchers duel between MU starter Ryan Bardoni (Warren, Mich.) and Aquinas
starter Michael Giddings. Aquinas got to Bardoni in the fifth, scoring a
pair of runs on a RBI single by Mike Kaiser and RBI double from Aaron Gowell to
take a 2-0 lead.
The Saints came right back
to score three more in the sixth which proved to be enough for Giddings who went
the distance, allowing just four Madonna hits and striking out five.
Bardoni (0-3) was saddle
with the loss going five-and-two-thirds innings with a strikeout and two earned
runs. John McCracken (Pinckney, Mich.) came on to pitch the
final inning-and-one-third.
Not lost in the split was
the effort of Kennedy, who now owns the career strikeout record and is the only
MU pitcher to reach 200 strikeouts in the 19-year history of Madonna baseball.
He currently stands at 204 career strikeouts.
The Crusaders will close
their seven game home stand tomorrow afternoon (April 3) when the face Rochester
College in a non-conference nine-inning contest beginning at 1:30 pm.
Contact:
Matt Fancett, Asst. AD - Media Relations
(734) 432-5610
