March 13, 2007
Box Score
Duquesne's baseball team rallied twice in their first game following the Clearwater Fla. Invitational, overtaking West Virginia, 14-12, Tuesday afternoon at Hawley Field in Morgantown. The win ended a 17-year, 26-game drought by the Dukes versus the Mountaineers. Nineteen of the 26 losses during the streak occurred in Morgantown.
Sophomore Anthony Manley led the Red and Blue offense, which pounded out 18 hits, by going 4-for-5 with two runs scored and three RBI. Junior Nolan Pena went 3-for-5. Joe Berletic, Brian Bernardo, Eric Morrison and Bill Torre each had two hits for the 4-7 Dukes.
Senior Joe Kaye (2-1) picked up the win. Kaye held WVU to two earned runs in three innings (6-8) of relief and set the stage for the Dukes' final, and winning, rally. Junior Keith Meyer pitched a scoreless ninth for his second save of the season.
The Dukes started strong, scoring six runs on seven hits in the top of the first only to see the Mountaineers match that with six in the bottom of the frame.
WVU scored three in the second, and one in the third on the game's only home run by Justin Jenkins, for a 10-6 lead. The Dukes answered with five scores in the top of the fourth to retake the lead, 11-10.
The Mountaineers scored twice in the bottom of the sixth for a 12-11 edge over the visitors. Torre's sacrifice fly in the seventh scored Manley, tying the game for the second time at 12-12.
In the Dukes' next at-bat, pinch hitter Mike Carroll's one-out single to center drove in Alex Sharick and gave DU a 13-12 lead. After Berletic singled, Bernardo slashed a double down the left field line to score Carroll with the insurance run.
Meyer, facing the Big East team in the bottom of the ninth, walked leadoff hitter Justin Jenkins and then closed the door on the Mountaineers as Austin Markel grounded back to Meyer, Jordan Yost flied to Morrison in center, and Brent Lockhart popped up to shortstop Bill Torre.
Adam White was 3-for-5 and drove in three for 9-4 West Virginia. Jenkins stretched his hitting streak to 12 games. Chris Enourato (0-1), who stopped the Dukes in the seventh but gave up the winning runs in the eighth, picked up the loss.
The Dukes head to Annapolis, Md. this weekend for a three-game series with Navy (13-5), starting with a noon doubleheader on St. Patrick's Day, Saturday, Match 17, 2007. The teams will play a single game on noon Sunday, also on Terwilliger Brothers Field at Max Bishop Stadium.
