Tiffin 10, Ohio Wesleyan 7

April 19, 2005

Tiffin scored 7 runs in the top of the ninth inning to escape with a non-conference win over Ohio Wesleyan on Tuesday at Littick Field.

The Bishops had jumped to a 6-0 lead in the first inning. Sophomore shortstop Kyle Sherman (Plain City/Dublin Scioto) and went to third on a single by junior outfielder Adam Toney (Galloway/Westland). After Toney was erased, junior third baseman Sammy Hall (North Riverside, Ill./Nazareth Academy) walked and freshman first baseman A.J. Dote (Columbus/Worthington Kilbourne) singled home Sherman for a 1-0 lead. Senior catcher Matt Strasburg (Oak Hill, Va./Oakton) then walked to load the bases and freshman outfielder Wes Desmond (Frisco, Texas/MacArthur) singled home 2 runs. Freshman outfielder Brent Wilkins (Fairview Park/Fairview) doubled in 2 more runs and freshman outfielder Josh Wheeler (Columbus/Dublin Scioto) plated Wilkins with a single to cap the rally.

The Dragons got on the scoreboard on Ryan Gilson's solo homer in the second and scratched out a run in the third to make it 6-2, but Ohio Wesleyan came back in the bottom of the third as Desmond singled, Wilkins walked and Wheeler singled to score a run.

Dan Dower doubled in a run in the Tiffin fourth to bring the Dragons within 7-3.

Sophomore righthander Sean Ring (Hilliard/Davidson) came on to pitch the ninth and yielded singles to Chris Rothwell and Paul Kidder to open the inning. Kyle Rehner then reached on Sherman's error to load the bases and Dower doubled in 2 runs to close the gap to 7-5. One out later, Rehner scored on a passed ball to make it 7-6, and the tying run scored on Justin Blair's single. After a walk to Brad Stelzer, junior righthander Billy Kampmann (Blairstown, NJ/Blair Academy) came on in relief. Ryan Rammel greeted Kampmann with a long fly ball to right, with Blair scoring to put Tiffin ahead, 8-7. Matt Jennings then finished off the rally with a 2-run homer.

Toney, Hall, Dote, Desmond and Wheeler each had 2 hits for Ohio Wesleyan, with Desmond, Wilkins and Wheeler each driving in 2 runs.

Junior righthander Michael Krieger (Boardman) pitched the first 4.0 innings, allowing 3 runs. Junior righthander Adam Dunn (Westerville/Worthington Christian) pitched 3.0 innings of hitless relief and freshman righthander Justin Grota (San Antonio, Texas/MacArthur) worked a scoreless eighth. Ring was charged with the loss.

Andrew Constantino pitched the complete game for Tiffin.

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