Tech Pitcher Erik Bua Earns Shutout against Concordia 10-0
MELBOURNE, Fla. – Panthers starting junior pitcher Erik Bua (Port Richey, Fla.) earned his
third win in his forth appearance pitching seven strong innings in the 10-0 outing over the Clippers of Concordia College.
Tech’s offensive production at the plate started early in the first and second inning as they went to take a 2-0 lead through two innings and then went
quite through the third and forth. In the fifth, Sam Palace (Clarkston, Mich.) who went 4 for 5 from the plate drove in the third run of a two out double
and then Palace crossed the plate by a base hit by Danny Sutton (Land O’Lakes, Fla.) gapping to a 4-0 lead. Without cooling off, the Panthers scored five
more runs in the sixth as they batted around in the lineup and then pushed one more run in the seventh to mark their final run of the game marking 10.
Every Tech batter reached the bases, scored a run, or knocked in a run against the Clippers on the afternoon with Palace leading the way with four hits,
two RBI, and scoring one run. Trevor Hearl (Cape Coral, Fla.) had three hits crossing the plate once while Eamonn Powers (Staten Island, NY) had two hits,
one RBI, and scored once. Brendan Twomey (Boca Raton, Fla.), Kevin Villa (Miami, Fla.), Sutton and Eric Trillas (Hialeah, Fla.) each had a hit apiece. Nick
Brenna (Detroit, Mich.), Twomey, Powers, and Trillas all had one RBI apiece with Twomey, Villa scoring twice and Brennan, Powers, Palace, Trillas, Hearl,
and JD Davidson (Naples, Fla.) scored once.
On the mound, Bua pitched a strong seven innings only giving up four hits with only one of the hits being a multi base hit. Erik only struck out two
batters but didn’t give up any walks as he utilized his defense behind him as he got the Clippers to ground out 13 times. Mike McFadden (Richmond Hill,
Ontario) came in the 8th for the non-save opportunity to finish the game off.
The Clippers Mike Gagliardi was the lone Clipper to have a multi hit game with two hits; his first for a double and then base hit at his second at bat.
Five other Clipper batters had a hit apiece as Concordia totaled seven hits in the game.
Tech improves to 13-6 overall and improve to 10-3 at home as they take the field again on Tuesday, March 6th to face Felician College from New Jersey with
a start time of 2:30 pm on the Andy Seminick-Les Hall Field in Melbourne, Fla.
Florida Tech Baseball 2007
Concordia at Florida Tech
03/05/07 at Melbourne, Fla. (Seminick-Les Field)
Concordia 0 (0-3) Florida Tech 10 (13-6)
Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI
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Lewandowski, Jason cf…… 3 0 0 0 Nick Brennan cf………… 3 1 0 1
Caputo, Carmine ph/cf….. 1 0 1 0 Brendan Twomey rf………. 4 2 1 1
Shelly, Matthew 2b……… 3 0 1 0 Kevin Villa dh…………. 1 2 1 0
Reider, David ph/2b……. 1 0 0 0 Dane Maglich ph……….. 1 0 0 0
Gagliardi, Micheal ss…… 3 0 2 0 Eammon Powers 1b……….. 4 1 2 1
Roth, Donnie ph/ss…….. 1 0 0 0 Sam Palace c…………… 5 1 4 2
Hickey, Kevin rf……….. 4 0 1 0 Danny Sutton 3b………… 4 0 1 2
Dempsey, Peter 3b………. 4 0 1 0 Eric Trillas 2b………… 4 1 1 1
Irwin, Jake 1b…………. 3 0 0 0 Trevor Hearl lf………… 5 1 3 0
Walsh, TJ c……………. 2 0 0 0 JD Davidson ss…………. 2 1 0 0
Peterson, Eric c………. 2 0 0 0 Erik Bua p…………….. 0 0 0 0
Pompa, Michael lf………. 4 0 0 0 Mike McFadden p……….. 0 0 0 0
Mejia, Harold dh……….. 3 0 1 0
Horsham, Jesse p……….. 0 0 0 0
Aquino, Jose p………… 0 0 0 0
Regan, Peter p………… 0 0 0 0
Totals………………… 34 0 7 0 Totals………………… 33 10 13 8
Score by Innings R H E
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Concordia……….. 000 000 000 – 0 7 4
Florida Tech…….. 110 025 10X – 10 13 1
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E – Shelly 2(2); Walsh(1); Regan(1); Trillas(4). DP – Clippers 2; Panthers 1. LOB –
Clippers 8; Panthers 12. 2B – Gagliardi(1); Palace(5); Trillas(4). HBP – Villa;
Sutton. SF – Brennan(1). SB – Mejia(1); Twomey(7); Hearl 2(5). CS – Brennan(3);
Davidson(1).
Concordia IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF FO GO
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Horsham, Jesse L,0-1…… 5.1 11 9 7 8 2 1 0 1 0 22 32 3 7
Aquino, Jose ………….. 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
Regan, Peter ………….. 2.2 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 11 13 3 3
Florida Tech IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF FO GO
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Erik Bua W,3-0………… 7.0 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 25 25 5 13
Mike McFadden …………. 2.0 3 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 9 10 0 4
WP – Horsham(1); McFadden(2). HBP – by Horsham (Villa); by Aquino (Sutton).
Strikeouts – Reider; Dempsey 2; Pompa; Twomey 2; Powers. Walks – Irwin; Brennan 2;
Twomey; Villa 2; Powers; Trillas; Davidson 3.
Umpires – HP: Jack Grant 1B: Woody Boyle
Start: 12:00 pm Time: 2:15 Attendance: 113
Aquino faced 1 batter in the 6th.
