LONGWOOD SLIPS PAST DUKES ON THE BASEBALL DIAMOND, 6-5

Tuesday, April 19

Farmville. Va.

TBA

James Madison University

15-21

Longwood

14-23

James Madison

Longwood

4/19/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

LONGWOOD SLIPS PAST DUKES ON THE BASEBALL DIAMOND, 6-5

Matt Sluder turned in his second four-hit game in four games.

Box Score

FARMVILLE, Va., April 19, 2005 – Longwood overcame a 5-1, fifth-inning deficit and trimmed James Madison 6-5 in non-conference college baseball Tuesday afternoon at Lancer Stadium.

Freshman right fielder Louis Ullrich (Centreville, Va./Westfield) raced home with the decisive run in the sixth inning on a swinging bunt by freshman first baseman Travis Lydon (Westlake, Ohio/St. Edward). Ullrich, who got the Lancers on the board with a two-out solo homer in the fourth, singled to start the sixth inning and moved to third on a double by senior second baseman Robert Gillis (Darthmouth, Nova Scotia/Auburn Drive).

Longwood tied the game with a four-run fifth that featured only two singles, the first by senior left fielder Chris Balus (Newport News, Va./Denbigh) that drove in the first run of the frame. After a passed ball allowed the Lancer's third run of the game to score, sophomore catcher Tyler Childress (Montclair, Va./Forest Park) hit into a groundout that pushed across another run. The tying run came in on a wild pitch. Two of the runners who scored had been hit by a pitch.

JMU broke out on top when junior second baseman Michael Cowgill (Lexington, Ky./Henry Clay) tripled down the line in right with the bases loaded in the third. Cowgill scored on freshman designated hitter Kellen Kulbacki's (Hershey, Pa./Hershey) 15^th double of the season.

Cowgill also singled to start the fifth inning and came around to score on the third of four singles by junior catcher Matt Sluder (Mechanicsville, Va./Lee-Davis). Sluder's four-hit game was the third of his career and the second in four games.

Redshirt sophomore left-hander Brett Mangigian (Midlothian, Va./Midlothian) kept the Dukes in check over the final 3 2/3 innings with two-hit shutout relief. He did not walk a batter and fanned two while upping his record to 2-0. The Dukes had banged out 11 hits before Mangigian took the mound.

Cowgill finished 2-for-5 with three RBI and two runs scored. Kulbacki, freshman right fielder Ryan Reid (Portland, Maine/Deering) and sophomore third baseman Rob Altieri (Greensburg, Pa./Greensburg Central Catholic) each had two hits for the Dukes.

JMU fell to 15-21 with its third consecutive loss and its first loss in eight meetings all time against Longwood. The Lancers improved to 14-23.

The Dukes' next contest will be Wednesday at home against the University of Richmond Spiders at 3 p.m. The Dukes won this season's earlier game, 5-1, on April 13 in Richmond.