Michigan State University
Monmouth Ill
Spartan Baseball Downs Monmouth, 9-5
3/8/2001 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 8, 2001
BOCA RATON, Fla. - The Spartan baseball team won its third game in a row Thursday (March 8) over Monmouth University by a score of 9-5. MSU is now 3-5 while Monmouth falls to 0-6.
Monmouth started the scoring early, scoring three runs in the first inning off four hits. The Spartans got on the board in the third inning with the help of two doubles. The first double came off the bat of Jared Koutnik (Jr., Milwaukee, Wis.), who later scored on a double by Rick Court (Sr., Grosse Pointe), making the score 3-1.
Michigan State scored another run in the fourth when leftfielder David Miller (Fr., Whitehall) hit a solo home run to right field to bring the Spartans within one run, 3-2. The Spartans tied the game in the fifth as Kyle Geswein (Jr., Dayton, Ohio) drove in Bob Malek (So., Canton). Malek reached base on a single, extending his hitting streak to eight games. In the sixth inning, Brett Wattles (So., Rochester) broke the tie with a two-run homer to put the Spartans up, 5-3.
Monmouth answered in the seventh inning, with two runs on four hits to tie the game at five. The Spartans got two runs of the their own in the bottom of the seventh, as Court hit his second double of the game and Geswein walked, Brady Burrill (Jr., Newhall, Calif.) hit a two-RBI double to give the Spartans the lead for good, 7-5. MSU added two more runs in the eighth to make the final score 9-5.
Starting pitcher John Huizinga (Jr., Wayland) pitched 6.2 innings and gave up 12 hits and five runs while striking out four. Bryan Gale (Fr., Decatur) came in the sixth and gave up one hit and struck out two in 1.2 innings of work to earn his first collegiate win. Domanick Squires (Jr., Rochester) pitched the ninth to earn his second save of the year.
Michigan State will take on Rhode Island Friday (March 9) at 11 a.m. in Boca Raton, Fla.
Michigan State 9, Monmouth 5
Score By Innings R H EMonmouth 300 000 200 5 14 1Michigan State 001 112 22x 9 11 2
WP- Gale (1-0)LP- Castle (0-1)S- Squires (2)
