April 1, 2006

DAYTON, Ohio - Dayton scored three runs in the first inning and then held off a late charge by the visitors for a 5-4 win over St. Bonaventure in Atlantic 10 baseball action at Time Warner Cable Stadium on Saturday. The Flyers (11-12, 2-3 A-10) and Bonnies (7-7, 3-2 A-10) will play the rubber game of their series on Sunday at Noon ET.

The junior duo of Bobby Getty and Michael Massa had big days at the plate for the Flyers. Getty was 1-for-3 with a run scored and two-RBI including the game-winner on a triple off the centerfield wall in the seventh inning. Massa was 1-for-3 with a walk and two runs scored.

UD out hit Bona 9-7 and took advantage of four Bonnie errors to even the weekend series. Three Flyers had multi-hit games as William Benoit, Galen Schumm and Michael DeLuca were all 2-for-4 on the afternoon. Benoit added a run scored while Schumm collected an RBI and DeLuca had a stolen base for Dayton.

Junior Kyle Lindsay improved to 4-0 on the year on the mound for UD. He allowed just two runs on four hits over 6.0 innings pitched. The right hander struck out three batters while not surrendering a walk.

After Lindsay pitched to two batters in the seventh, JC transfers Cale Ort and Chris Rubio combined to close out the frame. Ort finished with just one hit allowed in two batters faced. Rubio completed the day with two runs scored and a strikeout in 0.2 innings pitched.

Senior Craig Rohren earned his third save of the season by pitching the final 2.0 innings of the game. The righty allowed just one hit and one walk while striking out a batter in a scoreless relief appearance.

The Flyers jumped on the Bonnies with three unearned runs in the bottom of the first courtesy of three Bona errors. Massa walked to leadoff the threat and after one out advanced to second on an error during a failed pickoff attempt. Getty made his way to first on another fielding error to put runners on the corners with one out. Bryan Chandler drove home the first run of the day with a sacrifice fly to centerfield. Benoit then singled to right field and Getty made it all the way to third before scoring when the throw from the outfield went high of the bag. Schumm followed with an RBI single up the middle to wrap up the first inning attack with UD on top 3-0.

St. Bonaventure got one back in the fourth inning, but Dayton struck again in the fifth. McSoley got things started with a triple down the right field line. Getty then delivered his first of two RBI on the day with a sacrifice fly to left field for a 4-1 Flyer lead.

A pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the seventh inning closed the UD lead to 4-2, but Dayton responded with a run of its own in an RBI triple off the centerfield wall by Getty for a 5-2 advantage.

A two-run blast off the bat of Brian Pellegrini in the eighth inning pulled St. Bonaventure within a run at 5-4. The Bonnies threatened to take the lead in the top of the ninth as it had the bases loaded with Pellegrini stepping to the plate. Rohren got the Bona slugger to fly out to deep centerfield to end the game and preserve a 5-4 Dayton victory.