May 9, 2004

Box Score

DAYTON, OHIO - Korey Keller pitched his first complete game of the season and Charlie Reschke drove home two runs to lead the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to a 4-3 victory over Wright State University in Horizon League baseball play here Sunday (May 9). With the win the Panthers moved ahead of WSU in the league standings with a 21-25 overall record and 9-10 league mark. Wright State drops to 19-28 overall and 8-9 in league play.

Milwaukee scored the first two runs of the game with a three-hit, third inning. Ben Stanczyk and Matt Alexander roped two-out singles to start the rally that Reschke finished with a two-run double off the center field wall. Wright State tied the game up with single runs in the fifth and sixth, one coming on a solo home run by league home run leader Brian Vickers.

The Panthers grabbed another two-run lead with solo tallies in the eighth and ninth. Alexander led off the eighth with a single followed by a Reschke sacrifice. Jeremy Wilson delivered one of the biggest hits of the game when his hit-and-run single to center field scored Alexander. Milwaukee added an important insurance run in the ninth when Brooks Graff doubled to lead things off and moved to third on a Sam Jansen sacrifice. Stanczyk, who finished the game two-for-three, lined a run-scoring sacrifice fly to center.

Wright State mounted a rally in the bottom of the ninth and had the game-tying run on third but Keller got Chris Coleman to ground out to Reschke to end the game. Keller walked the first two batters of the frame but after a sacrifice and an RBI groundout, the righthander enduced the game-ending groundout.

Keller allowed nine hits and three walks with six strikeouts in improving to 5-4 on the year. Graff delivered three hits in the leadoff spot while Stanczyk and Alexander each ripped two hits. Kyle Kearcher (4-4) took the loss and allowed three earned runs and nine hits in his eight innings of work.

UWM will return home to Henry Aaron Field on Tuesday (May 11) when Western Michigan comes to town for a single game beginning at 4:00 p.m.