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Baseball Again Defeats Indiana, 4-3, on Late-Game Heroics
4/14/2001 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 14, 2001
EVANSTON, Ill. - The Northwestern baseball team used a four-run, sixth-inning rally to defeat Indiana 4-3, in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader.
Indiana sophomore hurler Jacob Cary allowed just one hit and faced the minimum number of hitters through five innings in Saturday's second seven-inning game. However, the Wildcats finally reached him and a pair of relievers in the sixth for their third straight pulsating win.
Wesley Robinson (Bradenton, Fla./St. Stephen's) reached on a error, and then pinch hitter Chuck Sanna (Sherman, Texas/Sherman) beat out a slow roller to third to start the NU comeback. Junior Steve Haake (Belleville, Ill./Gibault) followed with a triple to the rightfield corner, scoring Robinson and Sanna. Sophomore Eric Roeder (Onsted, Mich./Onsted), the hero from Game 1 earlier today, followed with a sharp single up the middle which tied the score at 3-3. Roeder then came around to score the go-ahead run on a wild pitch after an Indiana pitching change and two Wildcat walks.
The Hoosiers plated a single run in the fourth, when Vasili Spanos homered off NU starter Ryan Bos, and added two more in the top half of the sixth. Spanos tripled in the sixth and was driven home by Big Ten conference RBI leader Blake St. Clair, who knocked in his 42nd run of the year.
Offensively for the Wildcats, the first and second hitters in the order -- Haake and Roeder -- combined to drive in three of the four runs. Freshman David Gresky (North Royalton, Ohio/St. Ignatius) went 1-for-3 with an RBI.
Bos went six and a third innings, giving up three runs (two earned) and walking just one. Freshman Dan Konecny (Ripon, Wis./Ripon), who picked up his first collegiate win in Game 1 of the series Friday, threw the final two-thirds for his first collegiate save. Bos improved his record to 3-2 on the season.
