Local colleges: Errors send Carthage reeling

Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:28 AM CDT

Journal Times staff

The Carthage College men's baseball team scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning on a double error by State University of New York-Cortland third baseman Steve Nickel, but that's all the runs the Red Men got in a 6-2 loss to SUNY-Cortland at the Port Charlotte Sports Complex in Port Charlotte, Fla.

Carthage, ranked eighth in the American Baseball Coaches Association Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division III preseason poll, is off to its worst spring-trip start (3-4) since coach Augie Schmidt's 1990 team started 0-3.

SUNY-Cortland took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, but Carthage took its 2-1 lead in the bottom of the first.

The Red Dragons (7-0) tied the game in the second inning and took a 4-2 lead in the third, adding single runs in the fifth and sixth innings.

Carthage committed five errors and managed only four hits.

Red Men starter Ryan Roufus (0-1) pitched five innings, allowing five runs (three earned) on five hits and four walks. Roufus struck out six.

Men's golf

UW-PARKSIDE: Freshman Andy Hansen of UW-Parkside shot a 1-over-par 73 Wednesday and tied Tyler Wollberg of Carthage, Brett Meyer of Central Iowa and Mike Allen of Grand Canyon for medalist honors at the Desert Shoot-Out at the Aguila Golf Course in LaVene, Ariz.

Grand Canyon shot a 296 for team honors. Parkside was third at 308 and Carthage was fourth at 313.

Freshmen Eric Shields shot a 77 and Ben Bendtsen, a former Park High School standout, shot a 79 for the Rangers. Junior Matt Gilliland shot a 79 and senior Corey Sell shot an 81 to round out Parkside's scoring.

Parkside sophomore Mike Spiegelhoff, a former Burlington High School standout, shot a 76.

For Carthage, Tim Gannon shot 78, Matt Carr an 80 and Scott Hood and Phil Janik shot 82s to round out the scoring.

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