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Box Score 2 ALLIANCE, Ohio – Mount Union's baseball team suffered a pair of losses – 19-2 and 10-5 to Marietta in an Ohio Athletic Conference series Wednesday at 23rd Street Field in Alliance.
The Purple Raiders fall to 12-9 overall and 1-7 in the OAC while Marietta is now 17-9 overall and 5-2 in the conference.
In game one, Marietta belted out 19 runs on 26 hits scoring in all but two innings in a 19-2 win.
Mount Union was held to nine hits as Anthony Morino (Strongsville/Strongsville) had three of those hits and drove in run.
Pioneer ace Jason Byers improved to 6-0 on the season as he allowed seven hits and struck out eight over six innings.
Matt Murzynski (Mentor/Lake Catholic) took the loss on the mound for the Raiders.
In game two, Mount Union plated a run in the first inning but Marietta responded with five unanswered runs – three in the third and two in the fourth – to take a 5-1 lead.
The Raiders rallied with two runs in the fifth to close to within 5-3 but the Pioneers came back with three more in the seventh to extend the lead to 8-3.
Mount Union pushed a run across in the seventh but Marietta added runs in the eighth and ninth to make it 10-4.
The Raiders loaded the bases in the ninth but managed only a single run to fall 10-5.
Mount Union got three hits from Ricky Olasz (West Mifflin, Pa./West Mifflin) while Sean Mohney (Lodi/Cloverleaf) had a solo home run.
Mike Finlan allowed three runs on seven hits over the first five innings to get the win pitching for Marietta
Kyle Toma (Strongsville/Strongsville) fell to 1-1 pitching for the Raiders.
Mount Union host Thiel (Pa.) in a non-conference single nine-inning game Thursday, April 10 at 2 pm at 23rd Street Field in Alliance.
Marietta 19, Mount Union 2 (Apr 09, 2014 at Alliance, Ohio) (Game 1)
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Marietta............ 104 311 810 - 19 26 0 (16-9, 5-2 OAC)
Mount Union......... 001 100 000 - 2 9 3 (12-8, 1-6 OAC)
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Pitchers: Marietta - Jason Byers; Kordell Antill(7) and Kevin Johnston. Mount Union -
Win-Jason Byers(6-0) Save-Kordell Antill(1) Loss-
Matt Murzynski(3-2) T-3:00 A-97
Weather: 48 F 13mph NW
Kemp faced 5 batters in the 7th.
Bell faced 2 batters in the 8th.
Marietta 10, Mount Union 5 (Apr 09, 2014 at Alliance, Ohio) (Game 2)
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Marietta............ 003 200 311 - 10 15 2 (17-9, 6-2 OAC)
Mount Union......... 100 020 101 - 5 11 3 (12-9, 1-7 OAC)
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Pitchers: Marietta - Mike Finlan; Jim Luyster(6); Mike Fulton(8) and Eric White. Mount Union -
Win-Mike Finlan(1-2) Loss-
Kyle Toma(1-1) T-3:00 A-97
Weather: 54 F 18 mph NW
Toma faced 1 batter in the 5th.
