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For the first month of the baseball season, clutch hitting throughout their lineup has kept the Bloomsburg Huskies afloat. In most games, the Huskies were able to put up double-digit run totals, but weren't coming up with the ‘W' because of a plethora of woeful pitching performances that doomed the team.
Coming into a four-game stand with the Millersville Marauders, the Huskies pitching staff had given up double-digit run totals in half their games. The Huskies had no choice if they wanted a chance at being a successful ballclub the rest of the season. The pitching needed to step up. And after four games versus ‘Ville, the pitching staff did their part and then more, giving up run totals of one, four, two, and five over the four-game stretch. Unfortunately, for as red hot as the pitching staff was, there was a polar opposite for the Huskies' hitting, or lack there of. The Huskies could not get anything going in pretty much any of the four games, only putting up run totals of two, three, one, and three over the four games. The bats for both teams were cold as ice, getting frosted over by the strong pitching duels that dominated the four game stretch.
In game one, Grant Kernaghan went the distance on the mound for the Huskies, putting out by far his best performance of the season striking out 10 and only allowing four hits along the way. Fred Mengle was equally as impressive, pitching eight innings including the extra inning that the game went to, while only giving up four hits himself to go along with three strikeouts. ‘Ville was able to load the bases in the eighth inning and brought home the winning run on a Miles Gallagher bunt with the bases juiced to hand Bloomsburg the 2-1 loss.
In game two, the Huskies came out and scored first, going up by a run right off the bat, on an RBI single from Tony Donofry. Pitcher Vinny Voorhees gave up a few runs early on to Millersville and was not helped out in the least by some uncharacteristic fielding errors by the Huskies that allowed Millersville to jump out to the 4-1 lead. Chris Tressler and Eric Ebert, in addition to Gino Wise, contributed some clutch hitting for the Huskies in the late innings, but in the end the comeback attempt was cut just short as Bloomsburg fell yet again by a score of 4-3.
On Sunday the Huskies pitching was equally as impressive, as Joe Crossin and Mike Rossetti combined for a six-hitter in game one. Bloomsburg, who was facing one of the top pitchers in the PSAC in Millersville's Derek Kline, only got one hit the entire game. That hit just happened to be a two-run home run off the bat of junior Jerry Lloyd which was enough to give the Huskies the slim 2-1 win.
In game two, Millersville got up early, scoring three runs in the first inning. Kent Gerdes did more damage to the Huskies, putting Millersville up even further in the fourth with a 5-1 lead. From there, the Hukies could not get back into it. After scoring two quick runs, the Huskies batters were shut down by the Millersville pitching staff, who came away with the 5-3 win.
With three losses in four games to Millersville, the Huskies drop to 5-21,1-9 in the PSAC on the year. Overall, the Huskies have shown bright spots throughout the year as the pitching staff has come up big lately and early in the year the hitting was superb. The real test for this Huskies team will be to see if they will be able to put them both together. Until they do that, the Huskies will continue to be a question mark game in and game out, and be victims of their own demise.
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