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April 21, 2001 | Baseball
April 21, 2001
A four-run ninth broke a 4-4 tie, and boosted the South Florida baseball team to an 8-5 win over Louisville Saturday. The Bulls can sweep with a win on Sunday.
Louisville worked its way to a 3-0 lead in the second. Rightfielder Mark Jurich launched a solo blast high into the seats in right-center to lead off, his sixth, tying him with Mike Budak for the team lead. Catcher Fernando Isa followed with a single to left center, and second baseman Matt Jarboe put runners on second and third, when he reached and advanced on a throwing error by USF third baseman Myron Leslie. A groundout by shortstop Adam Haley scored Isa, and a sacrifice fly to center off the bat of centerfielder Mike Hook plated Jarboe for the third run of the frame.
South Florida got on the board in the fourth when Leslie's double to the gap in left scored first baseman Mike Eylward who had drawn a two-out walk to make it 3-1.
In the seventh, with two on, USF centerfielder Bill Nahorodny hit his fifth home run of the season to give the Bulls a 4-3 advantage.
Louisville evened the score on an RBI groundout with the bases loaded by Isa to score DH Carlos De la Osa, who reached on a one-out single in the eighth.
But the Bulls charged back in the ninth to take a 8-4 lead. They went up 6-4 on a two-run home run by rightfielder Daniel Boyd, his team-leading ninth, on a 3-2 pitch. An RBI single off the bat of pinch hitter Kris Courier, and an RBI double by catcher Allen Shirley insured the margin for the Bulls.
The Cards plated a single run on a groundout by Budak in the ninth, for the final tally of the game.
Josh Ring (4-5) threw 2.1 innings of relief, surrendering four runs on five hits and a walk. He struck out two in the loss. Cardinal starter Mike Eilers tossed the first 6.2 frames, giving up four runs on eight hits and four walks while striking out two.
USF starter John Vigue(5-3) went 8.1 innings, before giving way to David Richtberg. Vigue got the win, giving up four earned runs on nine hits and a walk, while striking out four. Richtberg struck out one in his two-thirds of an inning to capture his fifth save.
Jurich, Haley and third baseman J.T. LaFountain each had multi-hit efforts for the Cards in the loss. Leslie was 3 for 4 to lead the Bulls.
The Cards will try to salvage the final game of the series Sunday at 1:00p.m.
