Friday,
April 18, 2003
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Stovall's Complete Game Leads Campbell Past Belmont 7-0
BUIES CREEK, N.C.-- The
Campbell University baseball team used a complete game, five hit
shutout by Jeff Stovall on their way to defeating Belmont 7-0, in
an Atlantic Sun match up Friday night in Buies Creek.
Stovall, who earns his first solo shut out as a member of the
Camels, struck out five batters without walking anyone and at one
time retired eleven straight batters, while forcing seventeen
ground ball outs. With the win, Stovall's season record now stands
at 5-4.
The Camels got all the runs they would need in the
bottom of the second, as they scored four times. Kyle Ellenz led
the inning off with a single and stole second. Alston Hatch
followed with a double down the right field line to score Ellenz
for the first run of the game. Hatch then advanced to third on a
Chris Wiley ground out and later scored on a wild pitch. Sal Deanda
and Jason Brown added to the Camel lead with a pair of RBI singles
to run the score to 4-0.
Tom Rispoli's two out RBI single
to score Derek Barrows in the fourth inning, extended the Camel
lead to 5-0.
In the fifth inning, Ellenz
tripled to lead off the inning and came home on a one out, suicide
squeeze bunt by Wiley that gave CU a 6-0 lead.
Brown capped off the scoring in
the sixth as he hit his team leading eighth home run of the season
over the right field wall, giving the Camels a 7-0 lead.
The Camels as a team banged out
fourteen hits led by Deanda, who finished the night going 3-5, with
an RBI and a run scored. Barrows, Brown and Ellenz each collected a
pair of hits in the win.
Belmont's Joel Novak collect two
hits off Stovall to lead the Bruins. The Atlantic Sun's leading
hitter Dan Soukup, went 0-4, snapping his twenty-four game hitting
streak. Cody Blackard is saddled with the loss, dropping his season
record to 4-3. Blackard started for the Bruins, going six innings,
allowing all seven Camels runs while striking out six.
With the win the Camels
improve to 16-22 overall and 10-15 in the A-Sun, while the Bruins
fall to 19-14 overall and 13-9 in the league.These two teams will
square off in a doubleheader starting at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. [Box
Score]
