Photo by Kavin Mistry
By Matt Weiner (@MattWeiner20) — BSB Beat Reporter
Northern Colorado 3 (0-5, 0-0) vs SJSU 14 (4-1, 0-0)
UNC’s Sam Colehower stepped onto the mound playing with fire in the fourth inning and the bases loaded. It was a fire he didn’t start, but nonetheless he had to extinguish a bases loaded one out fire.
Yogi Bear wouldn’t be pleased with his fire put out methods.
Jack Collette sent a ball that was eye to eye with the clouds before descending off the wall scoring two.
With the Spartans up 6-1, Roddy Rich’s “Boom Boom Room” came out of the stadium speakers at Excite ballpark meaning one thing, Hunter Dorraugh stepping up to bat.
For the fourth time this year, Dorraugh turned Excite ballpark into his own Boom Boom Room.
“I don’t go up trying to hit homers when I go up there,” Dorraugh said. “I just try to hit line drives up the middle and if they go out they go out.”
Through five games this season, his .600 OBP and 1.850 OPS are video game-like.
It’s now the third time this season the Spartans have scored at least 14 runs. In the team’s 4-1 start, they are slashing a mind-bending .271/.427/.889.
Charles McAdoo went 2 for 5 today and is now tied for first in the team lead for runs with eight.
Catcher Mokana Olaso had a huge day at the plate going 3 for 4 while achieving many memorable firsts. The first of the firsts, was his first base hit which came in the fourth inning, The second of the firsts, was so grand his teammates had to act like nothing was worth celebrating.
“I think I had it coming for me because usually everyone’s outside the dugout,” Olaso said. “I saw no one out there so I was just gonna get hyped by myself … I got the greatest guys behind me right now so it was a pretty cool experience.”
Aaron Eden toed the rubber today for the Spartans going 6.1 IP while allowing three earned runs and registering his first win and quality start as a Spartan.
This was an excellent get right game for Eden. In his first start against Omaha, he went 1.2 innings, allowing three earned runs, four in total and gave up six hits.
His inability to get ahead early in the count against Omaha was not seen as he retired six consecutive batters to start the game and went 6 for 6 on first pitch strikes, too.
“I was trying to use the defense behind me,” Eden said. “I knew coming into this game I would have to pound the zone.”
Later on, Eden added that the biggest difference between this start and the last was “caused by jitters” and “trying to do too much.”
Eden was able to set the tone and groove throughout the game almost like he was the baseball version of a zumba instructor. Just one merengue step at a time he was locating his fastball down in the zone and trusted that his defense would make plays behind him.
The Spartans are now two wins away from matching their total from last year.
