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Rocco Cardinale
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Rocco Cardinale picked up his second career save and first of the season thanks to a scoreless ninth.
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Winner Wayne State WSU 7-1
4
Lewis LU 2-6
Winner
Wayne State WSU
7-1
6
Final
4
Lewis LU
2-6
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Wayne State WSU 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 6 13 2
Lewis LU 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 4 9 0

W: Miller, Philip (2-0) L: Vince Gohlke (0-2) S: Cardinale, Rocco (1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Cooper Weidenthaler, Assistant Director for Media Relations

Baseball Escapes Lewis with 6-4 Win in Sunday Series Finale

Leading 5-0 at one point, Wayne State held on for the victory and series win.

MILLINGTON, Tenn. -- The Wayne State University baseball team (7-1 overall) led Lewis (2-6 overall) 5-0 at one point on Sunday afternoon in the two teams' four-game series finale.  The Flyers made things interesting though with four runs of their own to pull within one at 5-4 before the Warriors tacked on an insurance score and escaped with the two-run victory.

Wayne State first scored in the opening inning when Owen Tuccinardi (Ann Arbor, Mich. / Skyline) brought in Rhett Roeser (New Baltimore, Mich. / Warren De La Salle) with a ground out to third and Drew Hill (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. / Grosse Pointe North) singled in Bennett Hitzelberger (Richmond, Mich.).

Two innings later, Tony Hatzigeorgiou (Oxford, Mich.) scored both Roeser and Tuccinardi thanks to a base knock to center field.  The Warriors 5-0 advantage came in the fourth when Hitzelberger forced in Ty Garza (Grosse Ile, Mich. / Grosse Ile [Barton College]) on a sacrifice fly to right field.

Lewis tallied all four of its runs in the fourth and fifth frames before the Green and Gold extended the margin back to two in the eighth as Garza touched home following a wild pitch.

Gabe Nazelli (Farmington Hills, Mich. / Detroit Country Day) made the start and lasted 4.2 innings before giving way to relief.  Nazelli gave up four runs, only one earned, on seven hits with three walks and four strikeouts on 92 pitches.

First out of the bullpen, Philip Miller (Flat Rock, Mich. / Woodhaven [Schoolcraft C.C. / Tusculum]) improved to 2-0 on the season after three and one-third frames of nearly perfect pitching.  Miller didn't surrender a single run with just two hits, no free passes and five punchouts on 46 pitches.

Rocco Cardinale (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. / Grosse Pointe North) slammed the door in the ninth for his second career save and first of the season.  Cardinale tossed a scoreless frame with one strikeout to his name and needed just seven pitches to do so.

Next up on the schedule for the Warriors, they'll face Findlay in a four-game set on Friday-Sunday at Xavier's Hayden Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.

 
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