6A - Thursday, March 28, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom 6A - Thursday, March 28, 2013The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Defense dooms Michigan late. By ALEX TAYLOR infield single, another wild pitch Daily Sports Writer and another single plated three more runs for the Broncos, giv- Michigan's baseball team ing them a 4-2 lead. seemed to take a trip to the Western Michigan (8-15) past Wednesday. Wearing their added two runs in the following throwback inningwhen it started the inning uniforms W. MICHIGAN 7 with a single followed by a hit from the MICHIGAN 3 batsman and an error to load 1980s, the the bases. A bases-loaded bloop Wolverines displayed old-school single by the Broncos scored two techniques: using steals, bunts more, extending the lead to 6-2. and situational hitting to push "We have to do a better job runs across the board. of competing in those spots," But so did Western Michigan. Bakich said. "That cost us, that Despite being accustomed to this led to two big innings for them, style of play, Michigan (10-12) but that's not acceptable, that's fell to the Broncos, 7-3, in the not OK, we can't do that." Wolverines' home opener at Ray The Wolverines and West- Fisher Stadium. ern Michigan employ similar The Wolverines played sound- styles of play, with an emphasis ly for almost the entire game, but on playing very fast, pitching to their defensive performance in contact and using small ball. the seventh and eighth innings, "It's the way we play," Bakich when the Broncos scored six of said. "We play fast, we put pres- their seven runs, doomed Michi- sure on the defense. They small gan. balled us, but we're accustomed "Whether it's two bad to that. That's not anything new. innings, nine bad innings or no It shouldn't have any effect on bad innings, the focus is that we anything, we just didn't make have to play better," said Michi- some of the plays we needed to gan coach Erik Bakich. "We make." can't continue to make mistakes Despite M the losing effort, that cost us ballgames, whether Michigan led for most of the it's making a bunt play or finish- game. It started the scoring ing a hitter off when we're on the early, recording a run in the bot- mound." tom of the second when sopho- After starting with two more Kevin White led off the straight singles in the seventh inning with a hit followed by inning, Western Michigan another hit by sophomore Zach laid down a would-be sacrifice Zott. bunt. A fielding error by fresh- Zott started right where he man first baseman Jack Sexton left off last weekend, when he allowed a run to score, though, recorded seven hits over the and allowed the other base run- three-game series. Junior Brett ners to move to second and third Winger walked to load the bases with no outs. A wild pitch, an up, bringing Sexton to the plate SOFTBALL 'M' bats heat up brisk day Mercy-rule win extends Michigan's win streak to seven By ALEJANDRO ZUNIGA Daily Sports Writer I I MARISSA MCCLAIN/Daily Freshman second baseman Jacob Cronenworth stayed hot Wednesday, hitting two doubles with an RBI in the loss. with one out. Sexton then hit a deep sacrifice fly to the center fielder that allowed Winger to tag up and score. Zott, tagging up on second, tried to round third and score on the play, but a perfect relay got him thrown out. Michigan added another run inthe third when junior outfield- er Michael O'Neill laced a ball up the middle to start off the inning, followed by a stolen base. This allowed freshman second base- man Jacob Cronenworth to come to the plate with a runner in scoring position, an opportunity that he didn't waste as he drove in O'Neill with an opposite-field double, his fifth of the year. "I was just hitting the pitches that they threw to me," Cronen- worth said. "I guess I'm just see- ing the ball well, but we have to put the whole game together." Michigan threatened in the eighth inning when O'Neill led off with a double and came around to score off of sophomore catcher Kevin White's single. The Wolverines had runners on first and second with only one out, but a strikeout and a run- ner thrown out on the bases cost Michigan the rally. A factor in the game was the strong wind blowing into the hitters' faces, and it held up sev- eral fly balls for outs rather than finding gaps for extra-base hits. Two bright spots for the Wol- verines continue to be the play of O'Neill and Cronenworth. 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