March 6, 2009

Box Score

IRVING, Tex. - The baseball team suffered their worst loss in two years on Friday afternoon at the University of Dallas by the final score of 16-4. Adrian (2-3) committed five errors and gave up 19 hits on the afternoon. UD (7-3) has beaten Adrian twice during the spring trip also winning an 8-5 decision in the season opener for the Bulldogs.

The game was close early as the teams were tied 3-3 after three innings. Adrian scored once in the first and two more times in the third. Dallas scored one run in each of the first three innings and made it five straight innings with a run by scoring two in the fourth and five in the fifth.

Todd Meyers scored the game's first run off an RBI single by Brian Bilius in the first. In the third, Bilius delivered again this time a two-RBI single which scored Meyers and Alex Cowart to give AC a 3-2 lead.

Dallas broke the game open in the fifth as they scored five times to take a 10-4 lead. UD had five hits in the inning but Adrian made two costly errors which kept the inning alive.

Adrian did not score the rest of the way and Dallas added a six-run eighth inning to put the game away. Adrian made two more errors in the eighth which again proved to be their achilles heel. The Dallas pitchers struck out 13 Bulldogs as Meyers was the only starter not to strikeout. Philip Carkhuff improved to 4-0 this season throwing seven relief innings allowing five hits and two earned runs with eight strikeouts.

Josh Lancaster (0-1) threw four innings for Adrian and allowed nine hits and five earned runs. He walked two and struck out four Crusaders. Craig Steadman threw 0.2 innings and allowed four runs but none of them were earned. Dan Welch pitched 1.1 innings and allowed two hits and no runs. Sean Curren threw the final two innings and gave up five hits and four earned runs.

Bilius had the only multi-hit game for Adrian going 2-for-4 with three RBI's. Meyers scored twice and went 1-for-3 with a walk. Adrian tallied seven hits and left five runners on base. These two teams will play again tomorrow as Adrian wraps up their spring trip.