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April 12, 2003
Contact: Bob McComas (724) 738-2777 e-mail: robert.mccomas@sru.edu
ROCK HARDBALLERS SPLIT WITH INDIANA, PA.
SLIPPERY
ROCK, Pa. – Senior second baseman Alan Reichl
(Pittsburgh/Montour HS) smacked a three-run home run in
the bottom of the fourth inning Saturday afternoon to lead Slippery
Rock University to a 5-1 win over visiting Indiana U. of Pa. and a
split in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division
baseball action at Jack Critchfield Park.
Reichl’s
home run was his sixth of the season. He also had a double in the
second game.
Indiana’s
Anthony Zambotti (7-0) held SRU to only three hits in the
first game.
The
Rock is now 26-7 overall and 8-2 in PSAC-West action, the latter
mark good for first place.
Indiana
is 13-14 overall, 5-5 in PSAC-West action.
Kris Firestone had a pair of hits to lead Indiana’s
seven-hit attack in the opening game.
Senior
center fielder Joe Neidrick (Osceola
Mills/Phillipsburg-Osceola HS) had a two-run single in the
bottom of the fifth inning to account for SRU’s only
runs.
Sophomore
right-hander John Katish (Deer Lakes/Deer Lakes HS)
was the losing pitcher in the first game. He fell to 4-2 on the
year after he allowed three earned runs on seven hits, struck out
five and did not walk a batter.
Junior shortstop
Nathan Statzer (Harmony/Seneca Valley HS), senior
first baseman Brandon Stewart (New Kensington/Plum
HS) and sophomore designated hitter Bill Wolfe
(Franklin/Franklin HS) had three hits each for SRU in
the second game to lead a 15-hit Rock attack.
Statzer had a
double and an RBI, while Wolfe had an RBI.
Jim Long had three of Indiana’s eight hits in the second
game.
Rock
junior southpaw Steve Norris (Clearfield/Clearfield
HS) struck out nine, walked one and scattered eight hits en
route to his fifth win in as many decisions.
The
Rock, which began the week ranked 14th in the National
Collegiate Baseball Writers of America national poll and
15th in the Collegiate Baseball magazine poll, hosts
Millersville in a PSAC interdivisional doubleheader at 1 p.m.
Sunday.
# ROCK PRIDE #
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