ANN ARBOR, MICH. -- The Bowling Green State University baseball team scored three runs on four hits with two outs in the first inning and never looked back in posting an 8-3 win over Michigan at Fisher Stadium Tuesday afternoon. With the win, BG’s second this season over a Big Ten opponent, Bowling Green head coach Danny Schmitz became only the fifth baseabll coach in Mid-American Conference history to reach 500 wins. Schmitz is 500-453-4 in 19 seasons at BGSU.
The Falcons improve to 11-12 on the season with the victory while Michigan, the three-time defending Big Ten champions, is now 16-8.
With the victory, Schmitz joins Western Michigan’s Fred Decker (1976-04, 791 wins), Ohio’s Joe Carbone (1989-present, 596), Toledo Stan Sanders (1970-81/1983-92, 534) and Central Michigan’s Dean Kreiner (1986-98, 516) as the only baseball coaches in the 62-year history of the Mid-American Conference to reach the 500-win milestone.
“The 500th win is shared by all the current and former players and assistant coaches,” Schmitz said after the game. “This milestone was made possible by all of their hard work in building the Falcon baseball tradition.”
BG is now idle until this weekend when they head back out on the road for a three-game weekend series against Central Michigan beginning with a 3:05 p.m. contest on Friday afternoon in Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
(Courtesy Bowling Green)
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