Lipski's Homer Powers Xavier Past Cincinnati, 11-10

April 17, 2006

CINCINNATI - With the score knotted at 10-10 in the top of the ninth inning, junior Adam Lipski took his 1-0 pitch to deep right center off the video board to give Xavier the win over crosstown rival Cincinnati in non-conference action on Monday evening at the UC Baseball Stadium. With the win, the Musketeers improve to 12-26 on the season, while the Bearcats drop to 20-15 overall.

The Musketeers jumped out early in the top of the first. The leadoff batter, Neil Lindgren, took his team-leading 29th walk of the year and stole second to get into scoring position. After a walk by Adam Lipski put runners at first and second, senior Sean Brewer roped a single into center to load the bases with no outs. The cleanup batter, Chris Lozan, would step up to the plate and deliver a run-scoring groundout to first to put XU up 1-0 and leave runners at second and third. After another walk issued to Jordan Wolf loaded the bases, junior Dan Hayden laced a shot to center to plate Lipski and put the blue and white ahead, 2-0.

The Bearcats answered in the bottom half with two runs of their own. UC would not record a hit in the inning but instead used patience at the plate to score the two runs on four walks and a hit batter to tie the score at 2-2 after one inning of play.

With the score 4-2 in favor of UC, pinch hitter Andy Zellers delivered his second double of the season and drove in two to plate the go-ahead run and give Xavier a 5-4 advantage in the top of the fifth. Matt Waskerwitz drove in the first run of the inning with a blast through the left side to cut the advantage to 4-3. Walks by Brewer and Wolf would finish out the XU scoring and make the score 7-4. Three of the five Musketeer runs came before an out was recorded in the inning.

Lindgren's three-run blast in the top of the sixth provided what would seem to be insurance runs for the Musketeers as the freshman took the 1-0 pitch deep to left for his team-leading fifth homerun of the season. The homerun also gave Lindgren his 20th RBI of the season and plated Steve Brown and Matt Waskerwitz.

UC would counter the XU fifth with a six-run sixth inning. The Bearcats notched four of the six runs with no one out and used seven hits in the stanza to knot the score at 10-10 after six innings.

Waskerwitz let the way offensively as the junior finished 3-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored. Brewer ended the evening 2-for-5 with an RBI and Lindgren was 1-for-2 with three RBIs and three walks. Zellers finished 1-for-2 with his clutch double and two RBIs, while six other Musketeers had a run batted in on the contest.

Xavier will return to the diamond tomorrow afternoon as the Musketeers play host to Ball State. Game time is set for 3:00 pm at Hayden Field.

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