Crusaders
Split In Windy City With St. Xavier
Zerbo
hits third home run of the weekend in game one win
April 6, 2008
GAME 1 BOX |
GAME 2 BOX
CHICAGO, Ill.
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For the
second straight day, the Madonna baseball team split its double header at St.
Xavier in Chicago. The Crusaders won game one 7-3 but dropped the night cap 8-1.
The split moves Madonna to 19-9 on the season.
GAME ONE
MU scored a pair of runs
in the opening frame to jump out to a 2-0 lead. Levi Cheshire (Troy,
Mich.) and Shawn Little (Canton, Mich.) hit back-to-back
singles with one way in the first. Cheshire, who moved up to third on Little's
knock, scored on an error by the Cougars to give MU a 1-0 lead. Little came in
on a Kevin Zerbo (Farmington, Mich.) single to extend the lead to
2-0.
The
Crusaders tacked on two more runs in the second as John McCracken
(Pinckney, Mich.) led off with a single and advanced to second on a passed
ball. Scott Boyer (Flat Rock, Mich.) drew a walk and Zack
McMillin (Grand Ledge, Mich.) singled to load the bases for Ryan
Morrow (Taylor, Mich.) and Morrow delivered a single that plated
McCracken and Boyer to push the Madonna lead to 4-0 after the top of the second.
The third
inning saw the royal and gold add on two more on back-to-back homers by Zerbo
and Patrick Kenny (Roseville, Mich.) to open the inning and give
MU a 6-0 cushion. The blasts were Zerbo's third of the weekend and Kenny's
second in the four game series.
St. Xavier
got three runs back in its half of the third off of MU starter Will Kennedy
(Westland, Mich.) to cut the Crusaders' lead in half, but that would be
all of the scoring for the Cougars in the game as Kennedy struck out four in his
six innings of work. MU added another run in the fifth for the 7-3 final and the
win.
Kennedy
picked up his fourth win of the year while Zerbo was 4-for-4 with his homer and
two runs scored. Kenny was 2-for-4 with a homer in the win.
GAME
TWO
As hot as the Madonna bats were in game one of the day, they were that cold
in game two as the Crusaders fell 8-1. MU saw SXU score two times in the first
before getting a run back in the top of the second as Kenny and Boyer led off
with back-to-back singles and Kenny crossed home on a Cougar miscue to make it
2-1.
The
Cougars added six runs in their half of the second to blow the game open and
earn the split for the day and for the weekend.
Sean
Maher (Oxford, Mich.) took the loss for MU while Mike Cauzillo
(West Bloomfield, Mich.) was 2-for-3 in the loss.
Madonna
returns to action on Wednesday, getting back into WHAC play with a 1:30pm double
header at Concordia.
Contact:
Matt Fancett, Asst. AD - Media Relations
(734) 432-5610
