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Baseball Falls in Saturday Matchup to UW-Milwaukee, 10-4
March 08 | Baseball
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The University of Akron (5-6) baseball team lost to UW-Milwaukee (3-5) by a final score of 10-4 on Saturday afternoon at Raymond C. Hand Park on the Austin Peay State University Campus.
"We were polar opposites from yesterday by not pitching ahead and not effective with our breaking pitches," Head coach Rick Rembielak said. "Offensively we chased too much out of the strike zone with their guy's breaking balls. We need to those two things better tomorrow and play effective baseball."
Junior Pat Dyer started the second game of the weekend for the Zips, and saw his record fall to 1-1 in the loss. Dyer allowed one run through the first three innings, but the Milwaukee offense got to him in the fourth and fifth innings. He ended the game with 4.1 innings, six runs allowed – four earned - and four strikeouts.
Milwaukee struck first in the second inning to take a 1-0 lead over Akron. The Zips bounced back with a pair of RBI hits from freshmen Dom Iero and James Meeker III. Iero's RBI hit was a double, the first of his collegiate career.
The Panthers regained the lead in the fourth on two runs, which were followed by three-run and four-run rallies in the fifth and sixth, respectively. Most of the damage was tagged to reliever Michael Steensen, who went 1.2 innings with four hits and four earned runs allowed.
Senior Joe Cochran relieved Steensen out of the bullpen, and tossed 2.0 scoreless innings with a strikeout and two hits allowed. Freshman Josh Davis posted a scoreless inning in the ninth with two strikeouts, his second straight scoreless outing.
Akron added two late runs in the ninth on a an RBI double by Joey Havrilak and a run scoring single by Devan Ahart to bring the game to its final score of 10-4.
Overall, UA recorded nine base hits, led by Ahart and Meeker III with two hits apiece. Ahart is now on a streak of three multi-hit games, and has a total of six games with two hits or more in the Zips first 11 games.
The Zips will wrap up the three-game weekend on Sunday against the Milwaukee Panthers. First pitch is set for 1 p.m., at Hand Park.
