Evansville Spoils Cardinals' Baseball Season-Opener
July 13, 2000 | Baseball
February 12, 2000
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The University of Louisville baseball team fell to the University of Evansville 6-1 in both teams' season-opener at Cardinal Stadium Saturday.
"Today we ran into a team that outplayed us in every facet of the game," said Head Coach Lelo Prado.
Sophomore pitcher Preston Larrison (1-0) dominated for the Aces, throwing seven innings of one-hit ball and striking out 11. The only run he surrendered was unearned. Junior Willie Glen pitched the final two innings, giving up two hits.
Offensively, the Aces collected 13 hits off Cardinal pitching. Starter Sean Green (0-1) saw five innings of work, surrendering four runs on 11 hits, while striking out three.
Senior DH Phil Broshears, junior shortstop Wes Carrol and junior outfielder Brian Wegman each drove in two runs for the Aces and each logged multi-hit games.
Cardinal redshirt freshman Morgan Bojorquez was 2-for-4 in his collegiate debut. Senior Troy Hilpp scored U of L' s only run on sophomore pinch-hitter Kyle Rajsich's ground out in the seventh. Senior catcher Curtis Sapp had the Cards other hit, a single in the eighth.
Evansville plated two runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. Green gave up three consecutive singles in the first inning after the first out, but worked his way out of the jam with a strikeout and a line drive to left.
Larrison, who was touted as the eighth best prospect for the 2001 draft by Baseball America, struck out the side in the first and the fourth. Four different Cardinal batters were victimized by him twice.
The teams will wrap up the two-game set Sunday at 1:00. Senior Brian Bentley, who is tied for the all-time record for career wins at U of L, will take the mound for the Cardinals and face junior Ryan Miller, who will pitch for the Aces.
