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By Mike Anderson, NKU Sports Information HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. - The Northern Kentucky University baseball team got back on the winning track with a 13-1 trouncing of Shawnee State on Wednesday. The Norse got on the board in the bottom of the first on Jeff Bohlen's RBI single followed immediately by Jon Back's fourth home run of the season to plate two more. Brett Hofmann added another in the fourth with an RBI double, scoring Larry Pempek. The Norse broke the game open in the seventh inning, using a bases-loaded situation to plate four runs on an RBI single from Kevin Dusold and a sacrifice fly from Jake Shaffer. Five more runs came in the eighth inning, with Pempek and Aaron Mentz each slapping two-run base hits in the frame. Eight of the nine NKU starters ended the game with at least one base hit, with Bohlen going 3-for-4 on the contest. Back and Mentz each went 3-for-5, while Pempek was 2-for-4 with three RBIs. Hofmann was 2-for-2 with a pair of doubles. Ryan Schmidt (3-0) started the pitcher-by-committee effort and wound up the pitcher of record, as the NKU pitching staff combined to scatter five hits and strike out eight. Northern Kentucky (9-12) returns to Great Lakes Valley Conference action on Saturday as the Norse host Kentucky Wesleyan for a four-game weekend series at Champion Window Field in Florence. First pitch is scheduled for noon. |
