Northwestern Takes Down UMBC, 9-5

Saturday, March 20

Winter Haven, Fla.

10:00 AM

Northwestern

UMBC

Michael Jahns picked up his second win of the season, hurling five shutout innings.

3/20/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

March 20, 2010

Box Score

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - Sophomore right-hander Michael Jahns hurled five innings of one-hit relief to pick up the win as the Northwestern baseball team opened its spring break trip with a 9-5 victory over UMBC Saturday.

The Wildcats jumped on Retriever starter Andrew Germuth for four runs right away in the top of the first. Consecutive singles by Trevor Stevens and Arby Fields set the table for NU as Chad Noble had an RBI double, Chris Lashmet tripled home a pair of runs and Zach Morton singled home the fourth run of the inning.

Northwestern stretched its lead to 5-0 in the third. Paul Snieder started the inning with a triple and Lashmet followed with his third RBI of the day, a run-scoring groundout.

UMBC got right back in the game in the third as a single and a walk started the inning and Rich Conlon followed with a three-run homer to cut the Wildcats' advantage to 5-3.

The Retrievers got right back to even in the fourth with two runs on an RBI double by Curtis Schickner and a run-scoring single by Brian Klukowicz. However, Paul Snieder got NU the lead right back in the ensuing half-inning as he belted a solo home run, his first of the season.

Jahns entered the game in relief of starter Joe Muraski to start the bottom of the fifth and was stellar, retiring the first 10 batters he faced.

Northwestern was able to stretch out its lead with two insurance runs against reliever Sean Swetnam in the eighth. Hamilton Wise and Snieder started the inning with back-to-back singles and both moved up 90 feet on a sacrifice by Lashmet. Wise would score on a passed ball, while Snieder came home on a single by Morton.

NU would tack on one final run in the top of the ninth on Fields' RBI single that scored Stevens.

Jahns picked up his second win of the season as he walked one and struck out two in addition to his just one hit allowed. The Wildcats finished with a 13-9 edge in the hit column behind three apiece by Fields and Snieder.