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Photo by: Carolyn Katz - CKatz Photography
'Cats Blank Catamounts to Commence Carolina Weekend
3/6/2020 2:26:00 PM | Baseball
SPARTANBURG, SC - Northwestern kicked off their weekend in South Carolina with a 4-0 win over Western Carolina University on Friday afternoon at Cleveland S. Harley Baseball Park.
Sophomore Mike Doherty turned in a dominant outing, pitching six shutout innings and allowing only five baserunners. For the season, Doherty has a 0.86 ERA with 20 strikeouts.
Senior Sam Lawrence came on in relief and picked up four strikeouts in his two shutout innings. Lawrence has now pitched 10.2 scoreless innings to start the season. Senior Josh Levy finished the game with a scoreless inning, improving his ERA to 1.93.
Offensively, the Wildcats were led by Minarvoic, who reached base three times with two hits as well as a walk, and Dunn, who recorded two hits and bumped up his season batting average to .275. The 'Cats now have five hitters batting above .250 on the campaign
Northwestern opened the scoring in the sixth inning on a grounder from Michael Trautwein, scoring Kyle Burnett, Jr., who had singled to lead off the inning.
The 'Cats blew the game open with a 3-run seventh inning. Minarovic led off the inning with a single, followed by a single to right field from Casey O'Laughlin. After a Shawn Goosenberg pinch-hit single loaded the bases, Charlie Maxwell singled down the right field line, driving in two runners for his team leading seventh and eighth RBI of the season. The single raised Goosenberg's season batting average to a team leading .462.
The 'Cats got a little help from the Catamounts' defense, platting their next run on an error off redshirt sophomore David Dunn's bunt single, allowing pinch runner Nick Cauley to score from second base.
Chicago's Big Ten Team will be back on the field tomorrow afternoon to face USC Upstate at 1 p.m. CT.
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Sophomore Mike Doherty turned in a dominant outing, pitching six shutout innings and allowing only five baserunners. For the season, Doherty has a 0.86 ERA with 20 strikeouts.
Senior Sam Lawrence came on in relief and picked up four strikeouts in his two shutout innings. Lawrence has now pitched 10.2 scoreless innings to start the season. Senior Josh Levy finished the game with a scoreless inning, improving his ERA to 1.93.
Offensively, the Wildcats were led by Minarvoic, who reached base three times with two hits as well as a walk, and Dunn, who recorded two hits and bumped up his season batting average to .275. The 'Cats now have five hitters batting above .250 on the campaign
Northwestern opened the scoring in the sixth inning on a grounder from Michael Trautwein, scoring Kyle Burnett, Jr., who had singled to lead off the inning.
The 'Cats blew the game open with a 3-run seventh inning. Minarovic led off the inning with a single, followed by a single to right field from Casey O'Laughlin. After a Shawn Goosenberg pinch-hit single loaded the bases, Charlie Maxwell singled down the right field line, driving in two runners for his team leading seventh and eighth RBI of the season. The single raised Goosenberg's season batting average to a team leading .462.
The 'Cats got a little help from the Catamounts' defense, platting their next run on an error off redshirt sophomore David Dunn's bunt single, allowing pinch runner Nick Cauley to score from second base.
Chicago's Big Ten Team will be back on the field tomorrow afternoon to face USC Upstate at 1 p.m. CT.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Doherty, Mike (1-0)
L: Zebby Matthews (3-1)
Batting:
2B: Andrew Bullock 1 ; Colin Bertsch 1
Base Running:
CS: Justice Bigbie 1
HBP: Carson Ford 1
Batting:
2B: Kaplan, Leo 1
RBI: Maxwell, Charlie 2
Base Running:
RUNS: O'Laughlin, Casey 1 ; Anderson, Jack 1 ; Burnett, Jr., Kyle 1 ; Cauley, Nick 1
HBP: O'Laughlin, Casey 1
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