Marshall University Athletics
Marshall University
Charleston Southern
Marshall Baseball Falls to Charleston Southern, 6-2
2/16/2007 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Feb. 16, 2007
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CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Marshall baseball team opened its 2007 season Friday with a 6-2 loss to Charleston Southern at Buccaneer Field in Charleston, S.C. The contest marked the head coaching debut for Marshall's Jeff Waggoner.
Marshall had just three hits in the game but left eight runners on base, thanks in large part to five hit batsmen. Brendan Murphy (Sr., Chattanooga, Tenn.) was hit three times by pitches. Brit Vincent (Sr., Bowling Green, Ky.), hitting leadoff for the first time in his career, went 1-for-4 with two runs scored.
CSU recorded a dozen hits in the game, as all but one of its starters had a hit.
Jeremy Slone (Sr., Paintsville, Ky.) started for Marshall and went five innings, allowing nine hits and five runs (four earned). He walked one and struck out two in taking the loss. Cody Higgins (1-0) earned the win for Charleston Southern, giving up just a hit and walk over five innings of relief while fanning one.
Marshall (0-1) wasted no time in scoring, as the first three batters reached to load the bases - Vincent with a single, Jeff Rowley (Jr., Buffalo, N.Y.) with a double and Murphy via a hit by pitch.
Charleston Southern (5-1) responded in the bottom of the first with a David Perkins RBI single, but the Herd avoided further damage when Slone coaxed Anthony Hayes into an inning-ending 5-4-3 double play. The Buccaneers tacked on two runs in the next inning on an RBI ground out by Will Rodriguez, while a second run scored on the play on a throwing error by Matt Helm (Jr., Downingtown, Pa.).
Marshall scored a run in the third inning without recording a hit. Vincent was hit by a pitch to lead off and advanced to third on two passed balls. Rowley scored him with a sacrifice fly to center field.
The Buccaneers added two insurance runs in the fifth inning on solo home runs by Stephen Herzog and Anthony Hayes, then tacked on another run in the seventh on a Chris Krogmeier sacrifice fly.
The teams play the second game of the series at 1 p.m. Saturday.
