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Box Score 2 WESTERVILLE, Ohio -- Mount Union split a pair of baseball games at Otterbein in the first Ohio Athletic Conference series of the season Saturday in Westerville. Otterbein took the opener 6-0 before the Purple Raiders got the night cap by a score of 11-2.
The split leaves Mount Union at 14-7 overall and 1-1 in the OAC while Otterbein is 14-8 and 1-1 in the conference.
Connor Mathis (Akron/Firestone) and Lee Grosscup (Green/Green) each had two hits and and two-run home runs to headline 11 hits in an 11-2 Mount Union win in game two.
Mathis drove in four runs, Grosscup three while Jimmy Dobran (Poland/Poland Seminary) had three hits for the Raiders.
Mount Union scored a run in the first and three in the second to jump out to a 4-0 lead. Otterbein came back with a run in the third which the Raiders matched with one in the fourth.
Grosscup's homer highlighted a four-run seventh that allowed Mount Union to blow the game open. The Cardinals got one back in the bottom of the seventh, but Mathis' two-run shot came in the eighth and left no doubt.
This was all more than enough offense for starting pitcher Matt Murzynski (Mentor/Lake Catholic), who scattered eight hits over seven innings to move to 4-1 on the season.
Mount Union struggled to find offense in game one as Otterbein pitcher Dustin Reuter allowed only two hits and had 11 strikeouts in a 6-0 Cardinal win.
Beau Smith (Frederick, Md./Frederick) had his shortest start of the season at 4.0 innings as he allowed six runs, but only two earned to take his second loss of the season (4-2).
Mount Union will be back in action Sunday hosting Thiel (Pa.) in a single nine-inning non-conference game at 1 pm at 23rd Street Field.
Otterbein 6, Mount Union 0 (Mar 31, 2012 at Westerville, Ohio)
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Mount Union......... 000 000 0 - 0 2 3 (13-6, 0-1 OAC)
Otterbein........... 005 100 X - 6 11 1 (14-7, 1-0 OAC)
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W. Meadows.
Win-D. Reuter(4-1) Loss-
Beau Smith(4-2) T-1:52 A-79
Mount Union 11, Otterbein 2 (Mar 31, 2012 at Westerville, Ohio)
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Mount Union......... 130 100 420 - 11 11 4 (14-6, 1-1 OAC)
Otterbein........... 001 000 100 - 2 8 3 (14-8, 1-1 OAC)
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D. Cydrus; J. Cheyney(8); A. Lake(9) and W. Meadows.
