Friday, April 14, 2006

Game 1 box score
Game 2 box score

URBANA, Ohio -- Urbana University avenged an 8-7 loss at Cougar Field last month with a sweep of the University of Saint Francis baseball team on a dreary Good Friday afternoon. The Blue Raiders took game one 11-8 and followed that up with a rain-shortened 11-9 win in game two.

Jarrod Wehri went 3-for-4 with two RBI and Tony Drysdale went 1-for-3 -- including a two-run home run in the second -- with three RBI, but it was not enough to over a Blue Raider attack that touched Kyle Mawer for 10 hits and 11 runs in six innings. Both teams got after it early, with Urbana holding a 9-6 lead after three innings, before the Blue Raider bullpen nailed down the win with scoreless sixth and seventh frames. Jarrod Limbach was the offensive star for Urbana, going 3-for-4 with three runs batted in.

Darrion White got the start on the mound for the Cougars in the nightcap and surrendered six runs on six hits in three innings. USF roughed up Blue Raider starter for seven runs on seven hits in 3 1/3 innings.

The Cougars scored three runs in the top of the fourth and led 8-6 through four, but Urbana put up a five-spot on Wehri in the fifth to build an 11-8 advantage. USF got a run back in the top of the sixth, but deteriorating weather conditions ended the game after 5 1/2. Mike Ybarra collected two hits in game two and Drysdale drove in another pair, upping his daily total to five RBI. Matt DeShon was 3-for-4 with two RBI for Urbana.

USF returns home to complete a four-game series with MCC rival Indiana Wesleyan Saturday, April 15. The scheduled doubleheader is set to begin at 1 p.m. at Cougar Field. 

-- GO USF --