University of Pittsburgh Athletics
Pitt
South Florida
Bulls Cling Series, Down Panthers 13-5
4/5/2009 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 5, 2009
PITTSBURGH — The University of Pittsburgh baseball team dropped its second straight game to the South Florida Bulls, 13-5, here at Red McEwen Field in Tampa, Fla. USF plated runs in all but two innings en route to 15 hits on the day.
South Florida forced Pitt to turn to their pen early on, roughing up starting pitcher Corey Baker (4-1) for 11 hits and nine runs in three and two-thirds innings. Matt Iannazzo followed Baker, pitching three innings on the night and giving up three runs on four hits.
Morgan Kielty and Joe Leonard combined for five of the seven Pitt hits, with Leonard finishing 2-for-4 and scoring three times and Kielty going 3-for-5 with a run and an RBI on the night.
Three straight singles in the top of the first led to Pitt’s first run of the game, when John Schultz scored off Kielty’s base knock through the right side. Leonard made it 2-0 in favor of the Panthers after he scored on a Matt Quevedo wild pitch.
USF knotted the game at two in the bottom of the second when Todd Brazeal and Chris Rey hit back-to-back solo home runs off Baker.
Nathan Hood’s sacrifice fly in the top of the third gave Pitt a 3-2 lead, but the Bulls answered by scoring 10 runs over the ensuing four innings, highlighted by Brazeal’s second home run of the game, a three-run shot to left field in the bottom of the fourth.
The Panthers closed the gap to 12-5 after scoring two runs with two outs in the seventh. Leonard and Kielty singled and Danny Lopez reached first on a wild pitch, loading the bases for Pitt. Hood and Matt Litzinger were both hit by pitches, allowing Leonard and Kielty to score, but Cory Brownsten’s grounder to the shortstop ended the inning and threat for the Panthers.
The Bulls tacked on one more in the bottom of the seventh on a Ryan Dunford’s wild pitch allowed Peter Broton to score, making it 13-5.
The Panthers and Bulls will close out their three-game set on Sunday, April 5th. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m.
