No. 13 Baseball Defeats Penguins 8-1 to Stay Unbeaten

Saturday, February 24

LOUISVILLE, KY

1:00 PM

University of Louisville

6-0

YOUNGSTOWN STATE

1-4

Youngstown State

Louisville

Riley Thompson earned his first win of the season on Saturday afternoon.

Photo by: Nicholas Perry | Louisville Athletics

February 24, 2018 | Baseball

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Snider matches career high with three RBIs; Thompson twirls five scoreless innings for the win

By: Garett Wall

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Sophomore Jake Snider reached base five times and finished with three RBIs and junior righthander Riley Thompson pitched five scoreless innings to lead the 13th-ranked Louisville baseball team to an 8-1 victory against Youngstown State on Saturday afternoon at Jim Patterson Stadium.

Snider was 2-for-2 with three walks, two stolen bases and a career-best three runs scored while matching a career-high with his three runs driven in as the Cardinals improved to 6-0 on the season. Sophomore Ethan Stringer hit safely in his fifth straight game finishing 2-for-5 with a double and two RBIs, while sophomore Logan Wyatt was 2-for-3 with two walks and one RBI.

Making his second start of the season, Thompson registered four strikeouts and allowed just three hits with two walks to earn his first win of the season and move to 2-0 in his career. The 5.0 innings for Thompson marked a career-long outing surpassing his 4.2 innings of work last weekend. Following two innings of relief from freshman righty Bobby Miller, graduate righthander Austin Conway worked a scoreless eighth inning while senior lefty Rabon Martin had two strikeouts in a perfect ninth inning for Louisville.

For the second straight day, the Cardinals gained command in the first inning plating a pair of runs on Saturday. Snider walked, took second on a wild pitch and advanced to third on his first stolen base of the day before scoring the first run on a wild pitch by lefty starter Collin Floyd. Wyatt pushed the advantage to 2-0 in the first inning with his two-out RBI single through the right side to plate junior Devin Mann.

Louisville added to the lead in the in the second on a two-out RBI single from Snider to send freshman Lucas Dunn home. The cushion moved to 4-0 in the fourth inning on Stringer's two-out RBI double off the left field wall allowing Snider to score his second run of the game.

After Youngstown State plated its first run of the weekend on a RBI groundball off the bat Andrew Kendrick in the sixth inning, the Cardinals dashed any hopes of a comeback with a four-run seventh inning. Louisville loaded the bases with one out before Snider connected for a two-run single to left field to score junior Pat Rumoro and sophomore Tyler Fitzgerald. Mann followed with a RBI sacrifice fly to center to send junior Josh Stowers home and Stringer added a RBI single to center allowing Snider to score the final run of the game.

The No. 13 Cardinals and Penguins close their weekend series on Sunday at 1 p.m., ET. The game will be televised on ACC Network Extra, while radio coverage is slated for 93.9 The Ville.

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