March 3, 2002
Final Stats
HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Steve Stanley and fellow senior Matt Bok continued
to spark the Notre Dame offense, combining for seven hits, two RBI and three
runs scored as the Irish baseball team closed its play at the Homestead
Challenge with Sunday's 4-1 win over Sacred Heart University.
Notre Dame (4-3) emerged with the victory despite playing without five injured
starters, including senior catcher Paul O'Toole, sophomore second baseman
Steve Sollmann and freshman DH Matt Macri, who was dinged up in Saturday's
game vs. FIU but did hit a pinch-hit sacrifice fly on Sunday's game (senior
third baseman Andrew Bushey and junior leftfielder Brian Stavisky did not make
the trip due to shoulder spains).
Junior righthander Peter Ogilvie picked up the win, pushing his career record
with the Irish to 6-1. Ogilvie worked out of several jams while allowing the
one run on six hits and no walks in his five innings of work, with four
strikeouts. Freshman righthander Martin Vergara then held the lead into the
ninth (allowing three hits and one walk, with five Ks).
Junior righthander Matt Laird then came on to record the save versus
hot-hitting Matt Lemanczyk, representing the tying run with runners on first
and second. Laird worked ahead in the count (1-2) before inducing a groundout
to the right side for the game's final out.
Stanley (4-for-5, 2 R) and Bok (3-for-5, 2 RBI, R) combined with freshman
shortstop Matt Edwards for a solid 1-2-3 part of the lineup that accounted for
nine of Notre Dame's 10 hits.
Sophomore righthander Dan Scott took the loss, yielding three runs on nine
hits and three walks over six innings (with seven Ks) in the season opener for
the Pioneers.
Notre Dame claimed the lead with two runs in the fifth, sparked by Stanley's
leadoff bunt. Bok then sent the next pitch to right field, with Stanley
scooting to third on the single and scoring when Scott was called for a balk.
Edwards then delivered an 0-2 single down the leftfield line and Macri plated
Bok with a pinch-hit sacrifice fly to deep center field.
The Irish capped the scoring in the eighth, with senior Matt Strickroth
drawing a pinch-hit walk versus righthanded reliever Lee Nastu before moving
up on an errant pickoff throw and scoring on Bok's 1-0 single to left-center.
Lemanczyk - who went 3-for-5, after batting .392 in 2001 - sent the first
pitch of the game into the left-center gap for a triple before scoring on
Jamie Schilkowski's two-out single through the left side. The Irish then tied
the game in the third, thanks to Stanley's first-pitch single to left-center
and Bok's RBI double to right on a 1-0 pitch.
Notes: Bok is batting a team-best .500 for the season (10-for-20), including
an 8-for-14 effort in Homestead (2 RBI, 3 R, 2 2B0 ... Stanley is batting .438
overall (14-for-32), after going 10-for-18 on the trip (RBI, 5 R, 2B, BB, 3
SB, SAC) ... Stanley's four hits give him 280 for his career, moving past
former teammate Alec Porzel (279) into third in ND history ... his 187 career
runs are tied with Scott Sollmann for 6th in ND history.
Sacred Heart (0-1) 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 - 1 9 3
Notre Dame (4-3) 0-0-1 0-2-0 0-1-X - 4 10 0
Dan Scott (L, 0-1), Lee Nastu (7) and Brian Rojee.
Peter Ogilvie (W, 1-0), Martin Vergara (6) and Matt Laird (9, SV, 1).
Doubles: Steve Stanley (ND), Matt Bok (ND), Matt Lemanczyk (SH).
Triple: Lemanczyk
