Penguins lose 2 at Illinois-Chicago
CHICAGO — John Roskinski’s bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 10th inning gave Illinois-Chicago a 3-2 win over Youngstown State in the first game of a Horizon League doubleheader on Friday.
The Flames completed the sweep with a 6-1 victory in the second game at Les Miller Field.
Youngstown State (4-19, 1-4 HL) tied the opener at 2-2 in the fourth inning and pitching dominated the rest of the way.
The Penguins managed just six hits in the opener and UIC (9-13, 5-0) had nine.
Youngstown State scored first when Eric Marzec singled and later scored on Jacke Healey’s single in the first inning.
UIC tie the score in the bottom of the second when Brandon Harwell scored on Nathan Orf’s squeeze bunt.
The Flames made it 2-1 in the third when Steve McGuiggan reached on an error by Healey. McGuiggan then went to third on a single by Andy Leonard and scored on Jason Ganek’s sacrifice fly.
Youngstown State tied the score at 2-2 in the fourth when Derek Carr singled and came around to score on a single by David Leon.
Eric Marzec, who came on in the ninth inning, took the loss for the Penguins. He is 0-3.
Derrick Miramontes (3-0) pitched two innings to pick up the win. UIC starter Adam Worthington pitched eight innings, allowing five hits.
YSU starter Cody Dearth went six innings, allowing seven hits and two unearned runs.
In the second game the Penguins got 10 hits but just one run off UIC starter Chris Kovacevich and reliever Michael Heesch.
Kovacevich went eight innings, allowing nine hits and one run. He struck out seven.
The Penguins got their only run in the fifth inning when Greg Dissinger reached on an infield single with two outs. After Leon singled, Justin Banks was called on to pinch run for Dissinger, and he scored on John Koehnlein’s single to left field. That slimmed UIC’s lead to 3-1, but the Flames answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning.
In the bottom of the third, McGuiggan and Jason Ganek had RBI singles and Leonard had a run-scoring double.
In the UIC fifth, Harwell doubled with two outs and scored on Rosinski’s single. Tony Altavilla then doubled home Rosinski and Steven Humble followed with a single to score Altavilla to make it 6-1.
Aaron Swenson started and took the loss for the Penguins in the second game. Swenson went 42‚Ñ3 innings, allowing 11 hits and six earned runs. Jim Kinnick and Corey Vukovic allowed just one hit combined the rest of the way.
Koehnlein, Dissinger and Carr all had two hits on the day for the Penguins.
The teams are scheduled to play a single game today at 12:30 p.m.