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April 20, 2007

Box Score

A leadoff single to center in the ninth by Eric Hoffmann (Erskine, Minn./Win-E-Mac) put the go-ahead run aboard. A hit-and-run by Douglas advanced Hoffmann to second and a line drive down the left field line by Embury (Kelowna, British Colombia/Kelowna) plated Hoffmann to give the Panthers a 3-2 victory.

Jenkins (Brooklyn Park, Minn./Champlin Park) struck out the side to open the game and did so again in the fourth and eighth innings. The junior tossed eight innings and allowed two runs on two hits while walking six for a no-decision.

The Panthers got on the board when a second-inning RBI double by Jeremy Weih (Wilton, Iowa/Wilton) scored Curt Bradley (Colombia.Mo./Rock Bridge) to give UNI a 1-0 lead. Travis Hendrix (Sonora, Calif./Sonora) followed with a frozen rope to left-center to score Weih and extend the Panther lead to two runs. The Bison escaped further trouble after allowing the Panthers to load the bases, but closed out the inning with the Panthers in command 2-0.

Jenkins pitched himself into a jam in the third, walking four straight and ceding the shutout. The junior sat down the next two batters, one on strikes and one with a groundout to Brandon Douglas (St. Charles, Iowa/I-35) to escape the inning with a 2-1 lead intact.

Jenkins returned to form with a three-strikeout fourth inning.  The junior carried a no-hitter through four-plus innings but gave way on a two-out hit-and-run to right field. With runners at the corners and two away, Jenkins sat down the next batter on strikes to preserve the 2-1 Panther advantage.

A leadoff home run by the Bison in the top of the sixth tied the game at two. NDSU went down in order following the game-tying shot and left the top of the sixth with the score tied at two.

Jenkins handed the ball to the bullpen after eight innings of work and immediately the Bison bats came alive. Two hits and an intentional walk loaded the bases with one away. Adam McDermott (Cascade, Iowa/Cascade) entered and needed just three pitches to force a 6-4-3 double-play to end the threat and give the Panther offense a chance in the bottom of the ninth.

Embury came through with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to give UNI a 3-2 win.

McDermott earned the win after pitching out of the eighth-inning jam. He is 2-0 on the season.

Hendrix led the offense with a 3-4 day and drove in a run in the second. The Panthers tallied 12 hits on the night.

UNI improves to 15-19 overall. The Bison fall to 5-20 on the season.

UNI and NDSU play game two tomorrow at 2:00.

NOTES:

Jenkins' 15 strikeouts put him among elite company in the Panther baseball annuals. His total ranks as the sixth-best single game total in UNI history and tied him with four other Panther hurlers. Fifteen strikeouts is the highest single-game total since Jeff Johannsen sat down 16 in 1995.