Post by elp525 on May 27, 2010 4:57:55 GMT -5
May 26, 2010
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Regular-season champion Louisville scored 10 unanswered runs in the seventh and eighth innings to defeat West Virginia 11-4 at the Big East baseball tournament Wednesday at Bright House Field.
The Mountaineers (27-29, seeded eighth) fall to the losers bracket in the modified double-elimination tournament. They will play the loser of Wednesday's late game between No. 4 St. John's (36-18) and No. 5 South Florida (25-30) at 5 p.m. today.
Louisville (47-10) will play the St. John's-USF winner at 8 p.m.
WVU had been playing its best baseball of the season, winning seven of its last nine league games to secure the last spot in the tournament. And with Jedd Gyorko belting two home runs and Matt Frazer one Wednesday, the Mountaineers led 4-1 after six innings.
Starter Andy Berry went six solid innings, giving up just four hits. But when he walked the first batter in the bottom of the seventh and WVU went to its bullpen, disaster struck quickly.
Third baseman Grant Buckner committed an error to keep that inning alive, and then Andrew Clark singled in a run. Ryan Wright hit a three-run homer to give the Cards their first lead, 5-4.
In the eighth inning, the Cardinals scored six times, aided by two Mountaineer errors, to set the final score. Wright doubled in the frame, giving him five RBIs.
Andy Altemus, the first WVU reliever and the man who gave up the critical homer by Wright, fell to 6-6. He gave up seven hits and nine runs, four of them unearned, in 11/3 innings. He used up a whopping 56 pitches along the way.
Reliever Tony Zych (4-2) picked up the victory, pitching the seventh and starting the eighth. Neil Holland, who entered the game with one out in the eighth with WVU still very much threatening, picked up his nation-leading 16th save.
Gyorko had three of WVU's four RBIs off his two homers. Buckner went 3-for-4.
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Regular-season champion Louisville scored 10 unanswered runs in the seventh and eighth innings to defeat West Virginia 11-4 at the Big East baseball tournament Wednesday at Bright House Field.
The Mountaineers (27-29, seeded eighth) fall to the losers bracket in the modified double-elimination tournament. They will play the loser of Wednesday's late game between No. 4 St. John's (36-18) and No. 5 South Florida (25-30) at 5 p.m. today.
Louisville (47-10) will play the St. John's-USF winner at 8 p.m.
WVU had been playing its best baseball of the season, winning seven of its last nine league games to secure the last spot in the tournament. And with Jedd Gyorko belting two home runs and Matt Frazer one Wednesday, the Mountaineers led 4-1 after six innings.
Starter Andy Berry went six solid innings, giving up just four hits. But when he walked the first batter in the bottom of the seventh and WVU went to its bullpen, disaster struck quickly.
Third baseman Grant Buckner committed an error to keep that inning alive, and then Andrew Clark singled in a run. Ryan Wright hit a three-run homer to give the Cards their first lead, 5-4.
In the eighth inning, the Cardinals scored six times, aided by two Mountaineer errors, to set the final score. Wright doubled in the frame, giving him five RBIs.
Andy Altemus, the first WVU reliever and the man who gave up the critical homer by Wright, fell to 6-6. He gave up seven hits and nine runs, four of them unearned, in 11/3 innings. He used up a whopping 56 pitches along the way.
Reliever Tony Zych (4-2) picked up the victory, pitching the seventh and starting the eighth. Neil Holland, who entered the game with one out in the eighth with WVU still very much threatening, picked up his nation-leading 16th save.
Gyorko had three of WVU's four RBIs off his two homers. Buckner went 3-for-4.
