Baseball: WVU Bows Out Of BIG EAST Tournament
May 23, 2008 12:33 AM | General
May 22, 2008
BOX SCORE
CLEARWATER, Fla. – Senior Tyler Kuhn finished with two hits creating a WVU season record of 101 hits, but it was not enough as West Virginia fell to USF, 12-5, in game three of the BIG EAST Tournament. The Mountaineers bow out of the tournament with a 1-2 record.
Kuhn surpassed Justin Jenkins’ record of 96 hits which was set in 2006.
Freshman Jedd Gyorko had two hits, two runs and an RBI on the night, while Austin Markel added two doubles and two RBIs to aid the WVU offense.
The Mountaineers (35-21) scored five runs on nine hits and committed three errors, while USF (31-26) advanced in the tournament by scoring 12 runs on 11 hits and committed just one error.
Junior Josh Whitlock (7-7) suffered the loss, allowing seven runs on seven hits, walking four and striking out two in 5.2 innings. USF’s Randy Fontanez earned his fifth win, allowing five runs on seven hits, walking three and striking out six.
USF’s took a 3-0 lead in the first inning when Joey Angelberger hit a three-run home run over the left field fence to drive in Mike Consolmagno and Junior Carlin, who both walked.
Carlin singled in the top of the third, and reached third on a passed ball that hit the backstop. Whitlock then threw a wild pitch to give the Bulls their fourth run.
The Mountaineer offense came alive, scoring three runs in the bottom of fourth inning closing USF’s lead, 4-3. Kuhn hit an RBI triple, his 100th base hit of the season, to plate Justin Parks, who reached on an error. Gyorko hit an RBI single to shallow center field to plate Kuhn and later scored on Austin Markel’s RBI double to right field.
In the bottom of the sixth, Markel doubled in Gyroko and advanced Joe Agreste to third. Agreste scored on Streich sacrifice fly to righ to trim the Bulls' lead to two, 7-5.
USF added three runs in the seventh, and plated single runs in the eighth and ninth.
