{"id":826,"date":"2019-03-13T23:17:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T04:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/?p=826"},"modified":"2020-11-03T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:01:28","slug":"slugfest-results-in-central-baseball-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"Slugfest results in Central baseball victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"13c398acb195b4bd84e993cb56669758\" data-index=\"6\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Above Post Ad 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:638px;height:70px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4024319323781499\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8631827568\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Central Athletics<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Joe Flaherty<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AUBURNDALE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2014 In a contest that featured 23 runs on 29 hits, the Central College baseball team outlasted the Dickinson College (Pa.) Red Devils in a 12-11 victory Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch (5-1) notched at least one run in the first five innings, putting up crooked numbers four times. It was only the second loss of the season for the Red Devils (6-2), who also scored three runs in a single inning three times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of a crazy game, a little bit different than what we experienced the first few days,\u201d coach Matt Schirm said. \u201cWe gave up too many bases but our offense responded and the pitchers came up with big pitches when we needed them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Designated hitter Jon Rozeboom (junior, Waukee) blasted a double and a triple on back-to-back plate appearances in the fourth and fifth innings. It\u2019s the juniors first season at Central after transferring in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJon had a pair of big hits,\u201d Schirm said. \u201cThe triple probably was a home run if it wasn\u2019t for the wind blowing in.<\/p>\n<p>Second baseman Chris Riddle (senior, Omaha, Neb., Mount Michael HS) was able to tally four hits and four stolen bases. Two of his four hits were doubles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris had a big day,\u201d Schirm said. \u201cThis was probably the best game of his career. He stole a couple of bases and made a really nice defensive play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An illness for starting pitcher Tyler Steward (sophomore, Norwalk) resulted in freshman Ben Wallace (Knoxville) getting his first start. He went 2.0 innings, striking out 1 and allow five hits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTyler was supposed to be our No. 3 but has been unavailable,\u201d Schirm said. \u201cWe weren\u2019t planning for Ben to start today. He was coming off short rest, having pitched in relief on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A.J. Pierce (sophomore, Ankeny, Centennial HS) and Marcus Wenzel (sophomore, Chicago, Ill., Luther College Prep) got the Dutch to sixth inning before Nathan Schwanke (sophomore, Omaha, Neb., Concordia HS) took over with one out. He struck out three in the next 2.2 innings before Ryan Riddle (sophomore, Omaha, Neb. Mount Michael HS)\u00a0came on for his third save of the season in the 9th. Wenzel earned the win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNathan was the best I\u2019ve seen him\u201d Schirm said. \u201cHe shut their offense down. Ryan and him are developing into back-end of the game type guys we can rely on. I think it will be huge for rest of the season if they can maintain it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The RussMatt Central Florida Invitational continues Wednesday with a nine-inning affair against Dickinson College (Pa.) at 10:30 a.m. in Auburndale.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Athletics Joe Flaherty AUBURNDALE, Fla. \u2014 In a contest that featured 23 runs on 29 hits, the Central College baseball team outlasted the Dickinson College<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,23],"tags":[26,104,249],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","category-division-iii","category-top-news","tag-baseball","tag-central","tag-jon-rozeboom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}