Arnold's Attack Wins Game One of 2010 Pizza Bowl
October 14, 2010 | Baseball
Oct. 14, 2010
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Freshman Jeff Gardner's two-out, RBI double in the fourth inning proved to be the difference as Arnold's Attack earned a 3-2 win over Xan's Zephyrs in game one of the Louisville baseball team's 2010 Pizza Bowl series on Thursday evening at Jim Patterson Stadium.
The intra-squad series, which closes out the Cardinals' fall workouts, will continue this week on Friday at 5 p.m., and Saturday at 5 p.m., and will conclude next week on Tuesday (Oct. 19) at 2 p.m., and Wednesday (Oct. 20) at 2 p.m. The Friday and Saturday scrimmages will be seven innings each, while the Tuesday and Wednesday scrimmages will be nine innings each. Admission is free for the entire series.
With Thursday's game tied at 2-2, Gardner (Louisville, Ky./Whitefield Academy) sent a Matt Koch (Cherokee, Iowa/Washington HS) offering down the left field line to score sophomore Zak Wasserman (Stevensville, Mich./Lakeshore HS) from second base for the game-winning run. The RBI capped a three-run inning for the Attack, with two of the three runs being unearned. Gardner finished 1-for-3, while junior Ryan Wright (Fort Wayne, Ind./Homestead HS) and senior Drew Haynes (New Albany, Ind./New Albany HS) each went 2-for-3 with a run scored in the seven-inning game for the Attack.
On the mound, freshman righty Chad Green (Effingham, Ill./Effingham HS) earned the win with 2.2 innings of scoreless relief and three strikeouts, while sophomore righty Justin Amlung (Louisville, Ky./St. Xavier HS) earned the save with a scoreless seventh inning of work. Sophomore righty Mike Nastold (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder HS), who missed the entire 2010 season recovering from elbow surgery, earned the start and allowed two runs on two hits with strikeouts in 3.1 innings.
For the Zephyrs, freshman Adam Engel (Loveland, Ohio/Loveland HS) was 2-for-3 with a run scored and sophomore Jarred Clarkson (Shelbyville, Ky./Shelby County HS) finished 1-for-3 with an RBI in the loss. On the mound, Koch took the loss despite allowing just one earned run on three hits with two strikeouts in four innings of work in the starting role. Senior righty Gabriel Shaw (Paducah, Ky./St. Mary's HS) came out of the bullpen for two innings of scoreless relief and four strikeouts.
Former Louisville catcher Jeff Arnold is coaching the Attack, while Cardinals' volunteer assistant coach Xan Barksdale is leading the Zephyrs through the Pizza Bowl series.
