April 17, 2004
Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score
The Duquesne baseball team split an Atlantic 10 doubleheader at Xavier on Saturday losing game one 5-4 before taking game two 6-4.
Xavier (9-24, 2-6 A-10) and Duquesne (11-14, 4-3 A-10) will wrap up the three-game series with a nine-inning game at noon on Sunday at Hayden Field.
The Musketeers took the opener 5-4 behind solid pitching from freshman Bill Konecny. He earned a complete game victory, his second of the year, after allowing four runs on five hits while striking out two Dukes.
XU got on the board with two runs on four hits in the first inning. The Dukes came back to score a run in the second on a solo home run by Steve Maiolo, but the Musketeers added two more runs in the third to take a 4-1 lead. In the XU third with bases loaded and one out, Drew Roberts hit a groundball to short appeared to be an inning ending double play. However the throw from second base went wide of first base and two Musketeer runners would score.
Duquesne answered with three runs in the fourth to knot the score at 4-all, but Xavier's regained the lead in the bottom of the fourth. Freshman Jordan Wolf came to the plate after the first two XU batters were retired in order and laid down a bunt along the left field line. Wolf beat the throw to first, which sailed over the head of the Duquesne fielder and allowed Wolf to take second base. On the next play, Waskerwitz singled through the left side to score Wolf from second for the game-winning RBI as Xavier took the opener 5-4.
In game two, the Musketeers were bit by a five-run Dukes' rally in the fourth and lost 6-4. They were held to just six hits in the game.
The Musketeers would take an early 1-0 lead after one inning before the Dukes sent 10 batters to the plate in the fourth inning to score five runs on seven hits and take a 5-1 lead. Duquesne added an insurance run in the fifth to make it a 6-2 game, Xavier again tallied a run in the bottom half of the inning. XU cut the deficit to two with another run in the sixth, but the Musketeer could not muster the offense it needed in the bottom of the seventh and lost 6-4.
