Baseball Cruises Past UW-Milwaukee, 9-5

April 13, 1999

EVANSTON, Ill. - Northwestern rattled off 10 hits and took advantage of five UW-Milwaukee errors to come from behind and win, 9-5. Junior outfielder Kris Musselman (Indian Springs, Ohio/Fairfield) hit his third home run, giving NU the lead for good and tying him for the individual team home run lead. Northwestern cruised to victory on the strength of four shutout relief innings by senior right-hander Phil Rosengren (Barrington, Ill./Rye Country Day) and freshman left-hander Ryan Bos (Barrington, Ill./Lake Zurich), who leads the Big Ten in saves. The Wildcats now have now won six of their last seven to open the home season.

Northwestern 9, UW-Milwaukee 5

LINE SCORE

 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UW-Milwaukee (11-18) 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 5 10 5
Northwestern (13-14) 0 1 2 0 0 2 2 2 x 9 10 1

DP - NU 1; LOB - NU 5, UWM 9
E - (NU) Padgett (UWM) Haugom, Crawford, Oiler 3
2B - (NU) Standring 2 (UWM) Sadowski
HR - (NU) Musselman (UWM) Oiler
SB - (NU) Dainton, Anderson (UWM) Ludwig
SH - (NU) Williamson, DaRosa
SF - (NU) Hietpas, Musselman

Pitchers

UWM IP H R ER BB SO
Clemmons 5 6 3 1 0 1
Crawford 2 3 4 2 2 1 (L, 0-2)
Gould 1 1 2 0 1 1

NU IP H R ER BB SO
Padgett 5 6 5 5 5 5
Rosengren 1 1 0 0 0 1
Bos (W, 1-1) 3 3 0 0 0 3

COMING UP: Wednesday, April 14 * NU (Ben Dodd/0-1, 12.10) at Valparaiso (Angus Roy/1-3, 5.79), 3 p.m. CDT