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UC closed the Big Ten/BIG EAST Challenge with a big win over our neighbors from up north with a final score of 12-4.  Improving their record to 3-3 on the year, the Bearcats defeated their highest ranked team since beating the 11th Ranked TCU Horned Frogs, back in April 2004 with the same score ironically12-4.  Columbus native Thomas Gentile started the game for the Cats allowing 4 runs on 4 innings, but with an 8-4 lead in the 5th inning would be all Junior Brian Sand needed to secure his first win.  Sand pitched 5 innings of no-hit baseball and was supported by the Bearcat’s season high 14 hits.

Brian Sand Earns 1st Team on All Tournament Team

OSU’s second basemen  muffed Sophomore Cory Hough’s pop fly to put UC on top 2-0 in the first.  The Cats went up 5-0 after the second inning thanks to back-to-back 1-run infield singles by Junior Chris Peters and Sophomore T.J. Jones, followed by a sacrifice fly by Senior Kevin Johnson.  T.J. Jones delivered a 2-run double with runners on the corners in the 4th.  Freshman Logan Jackson scored Jones on a pinch-hit double, bringing the lead to 8-2 after 4 innings.  the Cats continued to run up the score in the 5th with Senior jimmy Jacquot’s RBI single, before adding 3 more runs in the 6th inning, bringing the score to its peak at 12-4.

Brian Sand’s 5-scoreless innings of relief earned him 1st team on the All Tournament Team for the 2010 Big Ten/BIG EAST Challenge.  sophomore T.J. Jones received 2nd team honors as the Bearcats leading offense presence, going 6 for 13 (.462 avg.) with 5 RBI’s over the weekend.

The BIG EAST won the conference challenge 17-13 after losing to the Big Ten 15-9 last year.

The Bearcats host their first home series of the year against Youngstown State at Marge Schott Stadium Friday March 5th through 7th beginning at 4pm Friday.