YSU loses opener of Horizon series at Valparaiso

Staff report

Valparaiso, Ind.

Valparaiso scored in every inning but the third and got some early help from wind gusts almost 30 miles per hour to defeat Youngstown State 11-1 on Friday in a Horizon League baseball game.

Will Hagel went 3 for 5 with three RBIs, and Kyle Gaedele scored three times for Valparaiso.

Craig Goubeaux led the Penguins with two hits and a RBI.

The Crusaders scored three times in the first, and, after YSU scored a run in the second, went on to score the final eight runs of the game.

Jeremy Banks doubled to lead off the second, and he scored on Goubeaux’s two-out single to right.

Valparaiso tacked on two more wind-aided runs in the bottom of the second. Turosky walked two runners in the inning, and both came in to score when David Leon couldn’t come up with Manning’s pop-up in the infield.

With the score 5-1, Leon led off the third with a double and immediately went to third on a wild pitch. Valparaiso starter Justin Frane was able to escape without allowing him to score. Padraic Williams grounded out to third, and, after Joe Iacobucci was hit by a pitch, Banks grounded into a 4-6-3 double play to end the inning.

Frane went on to retire the next 10 batters in order, and the Penguins didn’t have another base-runner until Schroth’s single with one out in the seventh. By that time, the Crusaders led 9-1. Valparaiso added a single tally in both the seventh and eighth innings for the final score.

Turosky, making his first career start in a conference game, allowed six earned runs on six hits and four walks in five innings of work.

Frane allowed one run on five hits and one walk in eight innings to improve to 2-1.