Temple University Athletics
Thursday, May 10
Olean, N.Y.
Noon
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Owls and Bonnies Bring Plethora Of Offense; Temple's Late Rally Falls Short, 16-10
5.10.12 | Baseball
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – Battling through on and off rain, St. Bonaventure scored runs in each of its final seven innings at the plate, including five in the fifth and a four spot in the seventh to down Temple, 16-10, Thursday afternoon at Fred Handler Park. The Owls, playing their first Thursday game of the season, fell for the first time this season when reaching a double figure run total. Down nine runs to start the ninth, the Owls showed momentum that they will look to carry into Friday's game, as they chipped away at the deficit by loading the bases with no one out. Temple got three runs out of the rally, but fell short of making the comeback. With the loss, the Bonnies (19-22, 7-12) jump the Owls (18-30, 6-13) in the Atlantic 10 Conference standings. Five league games remain for Temple, including the middle game of the current three-game set, which will be played tomorrow at Noon.
From the second through fourth inning, Temple and St. Bonaventure swapped leads. The Bonnies got on the board first in the second inning on Nick Brennen's sacrifice bunt that scored Austin Ingraham.
Temple responded with back-to-back extra base hits from redshirt junior Matt Elko (3-for-4) and junior Allen Stiles (2-for-5) to lead off the inning. After a double from Elko, Stiles slung a pitch from Bonnies' starter Jordan Crane down the right field line to even the score, as Elko crossed the plate.
The Owls took their only lead of the ballgame when freshman Nick Lustrino skied a pitch out to right field, allowing Stiles to charge home on the sacrifice.
Scoring two in their half of the third, the Bonnies went ahead and wouldn't fall behind again.
In the fourth, the Owls did even the contest at three on redshirt freshman Connor Reilly's (1-for-3) RBI double that scored redshirt senior Steve Nikorak (2-for-4), who led off the inning with a base hit up the middle.
St. Bonaventure pulled ahead, 4-3 after its fourth inning at bat and would go on to explode for 12 more runs before the game was over.
Making his first start since throwing a 9.0 inning complete game last Friday, junior left-hander Dan Moller lasted just 4.1 innings, in which he was charged with six of the eight runs scored during his time on the hill. Moller struck out three St. Bonaventure hitters, but allowed nine hits and issued five walks.
Relieving him in the middle of the fifth was freshman righty Eric Peterson. Peterson surrendered three more runs—two earned—during his 1.2 innings of work. Redshirt freshman Dan Wason made his third appearance of the season, before sophomore lefty Ryan Davis and freshman Steve Albrandt came in for relief work. Ahlbrandt used seven pitchers on the two batters he faced, to hold the Bonnies scoreless in 0.2 innings.
His counterpart, Crane, went 7.2 innings, but allowed seven runs—one not charged—on 10 hits and a walk, while fanning three Owls away on strikes.
The Owls found ways to get runs in each of the final three frames, but returned them each time when the Bonnies batted.
In the seventh, senior Jabair Khan reached base courtesy of a fielding error by the St. Bonaventure center fielder and made it all the way over to third on the play, where he later scored from on junior Elijah Yarborough's ground out to the third baseman.
Returning to the plate in the eighth after the Bonnies recaptured the eight-run lead, Elko had a bases-clearing double, scoring sophomore Bobby Heitzman, senior Foster Dunigan and Nikorak on the play, to make it 12-7 at that point. Nikorak scored his third run of the day, while Elko collected four RBI on the afternoon with the two-base hit.
Again, the Bonnies swiped back the advantage they once held and added some insurance to it, tacking on four runs in their final at-bat of the game before Temple recouped three of them in the ninth.
Temple will look to even the series and even itself with the Bonnies in the A-10 standings Friday, when it sends sophomore right-hander Matt Hockenberry to the mound. Hockenberry will be looking to pick up his fifth win of the season, while being opposed by St. Bonaventure southpaw Eddie Gray.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: CRANE, Jordan (5-2)
L: Moller, Dan (1-6)
Batting:
2B: Reilly, Connor 1 ; Elko, Matt 2 ; Stiles, Allen 1
3B: Stiles, Allen 1
RBI: Lustrino, Nick 1 ; Yarborough, Elijah 1 ; Dunigan, Foster 1 ; Hall, David 1 ; Reilly, Connor 1 ; Elko, Matt 4 ; Stiles, Allen 1
SF: Lustrino, Nick 1 ; Elko, Matt 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Yarborough, Elijah 1 ; Knabe, Henry 1 ; Nikorak, Steve 3 ; Dunigan, Foster 1 ; Heitzman, Bobby 1 ; Elko, Matt 1 ; Stiles, Allen 1 ; Khan, Jabair 1
SB: Nikorak, Steve 1 ; Khan, Jabair 1
Batting:
2B: SKELLIE, Ryan 1
HR: INGRAHAM, Austin 1
RBI: MEREDITH, Michael 2 ; URBAN, Billy 2 ; SKELLIE, Ryan 1 ; GRIECO, Michael 1 ; INGRAHAM, Austin 4 ; BROZICK, Justin 1 ; BRENNEN, Nick 1 ; SHAW, Nathan 2
SH: MEREDITH, Michael 1 ; GRIECO, Michael 1
SF: URBAN, Billy 1
Base Running:
RUNS: RADWAN, Jason 2 ; URBAN, Billy 3 ; GRIECO, Michael 2 ; INGRAHAM, Austin 3 ; BROZICK, Justin 1 ; BRENNEN, Nick 2 ; SHAW, Nathan 3
SB: INGRAHAM, Austin 1
CS: SKELLIE, Ryan 1
HBP: URBAN, Billy 2
PO: BRENNEN, Nick 1
Game Leaders
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