March 20, 2010

Box Score

Hillsdale, Mich. - #9 Grand Valley State claimed an 11-5 victory over Saturday afternoon in GLIAC baseball action. The Lakers improve to 13-3 overall and 5-0 in GLIAC action. GVSU is scheduled open a 14-game homestand Tuesday (March 23) versus Northwood. First pitch for the 2010 home opener is set for 2 p.m. at the GVSU Baseball Field.

Sophomore centerfielder Cody Grice got the Lakers' offense rolling early with his second straight solo home run to open the game. Hillsdale answered with an unearned run in the bottom of the first, but GVSU pushed across two more runs in the second. SS Andrew Trepel singled with one out, followed by RF Paul Young's single to center. Following a groundout and a walk by 3B Cory Phillips, Grice singled to center to score a pair and give GVSU a 3-1 lead. The Chargers answered once again with two in the bottom of the second, but GVSU kept the offense rolling with two runs in the top of the third. 2B Kyle Gendron and 1B Cory Maguire both walked to open the third. Gendron moved to third on a fly out. Trepel's sac fly scored Gendron and Maguire scored on a single by Young.

GVSU added three runs in the top of the fifth on three hits and a Hillsdale error. Maguire opened the inning with a double and Anderson reached on an error. Trepel singled to score Maguire and Anderson came home on a groundout by Young. C Jared Cowan scored Trepel with a single to left to up the GVSU lead to 9-3. The Chargers scored one run in the bottom of the fifth, but GVSU pushed across their 10th run in the top of the sixth. Anderson walked with two outs and advanced to third on a single by Trepel. Young walked to load the bases and Cowan followed with a walk to score Anderson. GVSU added single runs in the seventh and ninth innings. Grice opened the seventh with a single and advanced on back-to-back wild pitches before scoring on a Gendron single. Maguire opened the ninth with a double, Anderson walked and trepel reached on an error. Young followed with a sac fly to conclude the scoring for the Lakers.

Grice was 3-5 with three RBI and a HR, while Maguire collected three hits and three runs. Trepel was 3-5 with two RBI and two runs and Young drove in three on two hits. Junior Kevin Schultz picked up the win, yielding four runs and four hits in 5.0 innings of work. Brad Zambron went the final four innings, giving up just one run on three hits.

Notes...Sophomore outfielder Cody Grice hit .667 (14-21) with three double, three HR, one triple, 12 runs scored and 13 RBI in five GLIAC games last week. Grice had a slugging percentage of 1.333 and reached base in 19-of-26 plate appearances...In five games last week GVSU hit .435 with 77 hits, 66 runs scored, 11 doubles, 10 home runs and three triples...The Laker pitching staff tossed three complete games and tallied a 3.65 ERA. The Laker staff yielded just 40 hits and 18 runs, 15 of which were earned. GVSU allowed just six extra-base hits.