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Cincinnati Tops Army
May 04, 2014 | Baseball
May 4, 2014
WEST POINT, N.Y. - Cincinnati scored five runs in the first two innings and beat Army, 15-3, Sunday in a non-conference baseball game at Doubleday Field at Johnson Stadium.
The Bearcats won a pair of one-run games in the first two contests of the series and swept the weekend set after collecting 18 hits on a windy Sunday.
Cincinnati, out of the American Athletic Conference, improved to 19-26.
Army, which will host Lehigh in the Patriot League semifinals May 10-11, fell to 32-16.
Daniel Cortes had two for Army, while Jacob Page tripled. Harold Earls and Justin Reece also had hits.
Cincinnati starting pitcher Andrew Zellner collected the win, improving to 3-3. He fired five-plus innings, struck out four and walked the first two hitters he faced in the sixth.
Army's Gunnar Carroll took the loss, just his second this season. He threw 4.2 innings, allowed 11 hits, nine runs, just three of which were earned. He struck out three and did not walk a batter.
Cincinnati wasted little time getting on the scoreboard, pushing across two runs in the first inning when Ian Happ lofted a two-run home run after Matt Williams led off the game with a single.
The Bearcats extended their lead to 5-0 with three runs in the second inning. Williams knocked in a run with a single, a run crossed the plate on a throwing error and a double steal led to another.
Cortes has Army's first two hits, a single in the first and a double in the fourth inning. He scored in the fourth when Page drilled a triple through the wind to make it a 5-1 contest.
Cincinnati first basemen Jake Richmond stroked a three-run double in the fifth inning with two outs and Williams added an RBI single to increase the lead to 9-1.
The Bearcats hit their second home run in the sixth when Devin Wenzel launched a two-run homer to up the lead to 11-1.
Army pushed across a run in the sixth. Kris Lindner and Cortes drew back-to-back walks. After a double play erased Cortes and moved Lindner to third, Patrick Mescher reached on an error, allowing Linder to score.
Cincinnati added a single run in the seventh, upping the lead to 12-2. Ryan Quinn then added a two-run single, his fourth hit of the game, for a 14-2 Cincinnati margin and a lone run in the ninth closed the scoring for the Bearcats.
Army also scored in the bottom of the ninth. Earls and Reese opened the inning with back-to-back singles to put runners on first and third. A double steal allowed Earls to score with the final run.
Army will now get ready for the Patriot League playoffs. The Black Knights shared the regular season crown and earned the #2 seed after tie-breaking procedures. Army will host Lehigh in a best-of-three series beginning Saturday, May 10 at noon. Two games will be played Saturday. Sunday's if necessary third game is set for 1 p.m.
GAME NOTES: Army wore its white striped pants with gold tops ... Members of the Army baseball team participated in a free community clinic prior to batting practice ... Jacob Page's fourth inning triple was Army's eighth this season.
