FLORENCE, Ky. – The UMR baseball team posted yet another win over a playoff contender Saturday by knocking off Northern Kentucky 1-0 in the first game of a Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader Saturday.
Northern Kentucky took the nightcap 4-0
Eaf Redden’s RBI single in the top of the eighth inning drove in Gerad Fox with the only run of the game as the Miners (19-27, 12-24 GLVC) won their third game in seven days over a team competing for a spot in the conference playoffs.
Fox led off the eighth with his fourth hit of the game, then moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Cody Bass and scored on Redden’s single.
Tavish Hill, who has been a hard-luck pitcher for the Miners throughout the 2007 season, pitched all eight innings and allowed just four hits to get the win. The Miner defense assisted him as three Norse runners were thrown out trying to steal and the team turned a double play to end the game.
The Norse did not leave a runner on base in the first game.
In the second contest, the Norse scored single runs off Stephen Read in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth innings to post the 4-0 victory.
NKU got on the board when Kenny Wilson led off the third with a double and scored on a throwing error on Jon Back’s sacrifice bunt. Wilson drove in the second run an inning later with another double.
The Norse also got a run-scoring hit from Evan McDole in the fifth and added another on a throwing error in the sixth.
Read allowed eight hits and struck out seven in his final start for the Miners, who will conclude the 2007 season with a single game Sunday at noon (Eastern time).
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