Penn Mightier Than Penguins, Tosses Four-Hit Shutout

Sunday, March 14

Lexington, Ky.

10:00 AM

Michigan

5-6

Youngstown State

2-7

Youngstown State

Michigan

3/14/2004 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Junior RHP Michael Penn (Columbus, Ohio/Worthington Christian HS) pitched a four-hit shutout as the University of Michigan baseball team defeated Youngstown State 7-0 in a game started Sunday morning (March 14) in Kentucky's Cliff Hagan Stadium. Penn (1-0) walked one and fanned two in recording his third career complete game and his second shutout. He did not allow a Youngstown State (2-7) runner past second base in the game.

Only six Penguins reached base against Penn, and none advanced past second base.

The keystone combination for the Wolverines (5-6) supplied the offense as sophomore 2B Chris Getz (Grosse Pointe, Mich./South HS) was 3-for-6 with a double and sophomore shortstop Jeremy Goldschmeding (Martin, Mich./Allegan HS) was 3-for-4 with a double.

The Wolverines took a 2-0 lead in the third inning. Junior LF Chris Burhans (Alpharetta, Ga./Marist School) reached second when his drive to deep center was dropped for an error, advanced to third after a foul pop to first base and scored on a two-out single by sophomore 3B A.J. Scheidt (Bloomfield Hills, Mich./Lahser HS). Scheidt collected his first steal of the season and scored on a single by redshirt freshman catcher Matt Rademacher (Bay City, Mich./Central HS).

Michigan missed a bases-loaded chance in the fourth inning as Getz and junior OF Matt Butler (Lombard, Ill./Driscoll Catholic) reached on singles and pulled off a double steal and Burhans was hit by a pitch, but the Penguins came up with a fine play up the middle on a base hit bid by Scheidt.

Michigan scored another unearned run in the sixth inning when Burhans and Bohm singled and Burhans scored when Scheidt's fly to left was dropped for an error. Getz had a run-scoring single in the seventh, the first earned run of the day for the Wolverines.

Michigan put the game away in the eighth with three runs as Scheidt and Rademacher singled, Goldschmeding lined a double to left for one run, freshman CF Eric Rose (Blissfield, Mich./Blissfield HS) knocked in the second run with a groundout and Getz doubled in the final run.

The Wolverines travel to Louisiana for three games next weekend, facing host Louisiana-Lafayette on Friday (March 19, 6:30 p.m. CST) and Harvard on Saturday (March 20, 6 p.m. CST) and Sunday (March 21, 9:30 a.m. CST).

N O T E S

The Wolverines finished the three-game Kentucky Invitational with a 2-1 record.

Chris Getz has 13 hits in 11 games as a Wolverine and eight came in the weekend at Kentucky, with two vs. Dayton, three against Kentucky and three vs. Youngstown State, his first three multiple-hit games at Michigan.

A.J. Scheidt grabbed the team RBI lead with 12, while junior 1B Kyle Bohm and sophomore 2B Chris Getz share second place with 11 RBI.

Junior OF Matt Butler collected his first three stolen bases of the season and doubled his career total to six.

Kyle Bohm and A.J. Scheidt extended hit streaks to six games. Jeremy Goldschmeding and Matt Butler have five-game hit streaks.

Michigan's hitting leaders after 11 games are: Jeremy Goldschmeding at .389 (10-for-22), 3B A.J. Scheidt at .422 (19-for-45), 1B Kyle Bohm at .404 (19-for-47), Jeff Kunkel at .400 (12-for-30), Matt Butler at .355 (11-for-31) and Chris Getz at .302 (13-for-43).

Contact: Jim Schneider (734) 763-4423