Monday, Feb. 16, 1998
Sluggers drop two of three to UNC Charlotte
The Penn State baseball team (1-2) won its first game of the season, 7-5, over UNC-Charlotte, but fell in game two of Saturday's doubleheader, 16-3, and again yesterday by a score of 15-1.Coach Joe Hindelang's team was able to pull out a ninth inning come-from-behind victory in game one, in what proved to be the only inning the Nittany Lions got the best of the 49ers.
Penn State Baseball page
"UNC-Charlotte is a good team," Hindelang said. "They
outplayed us 26 out of 27 innings."
Staff ace Nate Bump took the mound for the season opener against
the 49ers and gave up six hits, four runs (three earned), walked
three and struck-out six in six innings of work. Freshmen Dan
Goebeler came in to relieve Bump to get the win.
During the ninth of the game one, sophomore Michael Campo hit
a two-run double to knot the score at 4-4. Freshmen catcher Chris
Netwall followed three batters later, in his first official at-bat,
and hit a three-run homerun to give Penn State a 7-4 lead. The
49ers added one run in their half of the ninth.
-- by Todd J. Engel
