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3-22-24 BB home win vs. Lake Erie
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Lake Erie LE 10-10
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Winner Ashland University ASHLAND 14-2
Lake Erie LE
10-10
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Final
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Ashland University ASHLAND
14-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Lake Erie LE 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 7 3
Ashland University ASHLAND 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 4 8 2

W: Dyksma, Justin (1-0) L: A. Dallmayer (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Dusty Sloan, Ashland University Director of Athletic Communications

Miller RBI Double In Bottom Of The Ninth Gives No. 14 Eagles Victory In Great Midwest

Junior center fielder Cam Miller didn't get the bunt down to move the runner over in the bottom of the ninth.
 
So Miller went ahead and did the next best thing, ringing a game-winning RBI double to right-center field to give the No. 14 Ashland University baseball team a 4-3 win over Lake Erie College on Friday (March 22) at Tomassi Stadium and Donges Field at the Archer Ballpark Complex.
 
The Eagles are 14-2 overall and 1-0 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference – still in the midst of their best overall start in 22 years (also 14-2 in 2002).
 
"Those are the moments you dream of," Miller said. "3-2, bottom of the ninth, and to come through for the guys was awesome. I could tell in the off-season, everyone's bought in. The culture here is great."
 
"All these guys played last year and got the year's experience," said Ashland head coach John Schaly, "and they've worked hard to get better. He fouled a couple off against their normal closer, good pitcher, and obviously got the big hit."
 
The Eagles were the beneficiary of a two-out error which plated a run in the bottom of the second, then they took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth when junior designated hitter Ian Sanders lifted a sacrifice fly to right field.
 
Lake Erie (10-10, 2-3) got on the board with a run in the top of the sixth, but Ashland got the run back in the bottom of the eighth on an error on a failed pickoff attempt. The Storm, however, down to their last out, scored twice to tie the game at 3 – only to set up Miller's heroics in the bottom of the ninth.

POST-GAME NUGGETS
  • Junior left-handed pitcher Marshall Leishman turned in a quality start for AU on Friday, allowing five hits, one run and no walks and striking out eight in seven innings. Leishman lowered his 2024 season earned-run average to 2.35.
  • After senior righty Zac Common struck out two in a scoreless eighth, senior righty Justin Dyksma (1-0) ended up with the pitching victory after Miller's game-winning hit.
  • Miller and graduate shortstop Devin Hukill each had two of Ashland's eight hits.
UP NEXT
The second game of the series on Saturday (March 23) at 1 p.m.
 
"We always talk about we want to win a series, and we take every game one at a time," Miller said. "Our goal is always the next game."
 
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