Kent, OH – Toledo used a season-high 15 hits and quality pitching to take down Mid-American Conference East Division leader Kent State, 4-1, at Olga A. Mural field at Schoonover Stadium.  With the victory, the Rockets improve to 7-24-1 and 3-5 in MAC play.
 
Senior LHP Ross Achter allowed only two hits in 7.0 innings while earning his third victory of the season. Achter struck out six and allowed just one run to score while tying a career low in hits allowed. Freshman LHP Michael Jacob picked up his sixth save of the year after throwing 1.1 frames and not allowing a hit. Jacob fanned one batter and worked out of a jam in the eighth to hold the UT lead. Junior RHP Jordan Kesson also pitched in relief for the Rockets and did not allow a run in 0.2 innings.
 
Five players – freshman Riley Campbell, senior SS Deion Tansel, senior CF John Martillotta, senior DH Ryan Callahan and senior C Lucas Sokol – picked up multi-hit games and eight Rockets reached base at least once. Martillotta led the way going 3-for-4 with two RBI and one stolen base.  Tansel and sophomore LF AJ Montoya also drove home one run. 
 
Kent State jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the second with a home run form Conner Simonetti. Achter picked up all three outs of the inning on strikeouts.
 
An error from KSU opened the door for Toledo to tie the game at 1-1 in the third.  After freshman 3B Riley Campbell reached on a throwing error, Adolph brought Campbell to third on a single to center field. Tansel drove the runner home on a sacrifice fly to left field for his 14th RBI of the year.
 
Toledo grabbed a 2-1 lead in the seventh when Martillotta dropped a bloop single into left field with the bases loaded to score Campbell. UT threatened again in the inning but left the bases loaded.
 
The Rockets picked up two insurance runs in the top of the ninth.  Two sacrifice flies from Martillotta and Montoya scored Tansel and Bollinger and gave UT a 4-1 advantage.
 
Toledo will wrap up the series with Kent State on Sunday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m.
 
NOTABLES
Toledo improves to 66-89-1 all-time against KSU
Head coach Cory Mee improves to 13-21 all-time against Kent State
Ryan Callahan picked up his seventh multi-hit game.
Lucas Sokol earned first multi-hit game.
Deion Tansel picked up 10^th mulit-hit game (team-high).
John Martillotta picked up seventh multi-hit game
10^th and 11^th career runs scored for Riley Campbell
 
PITCHING
Achter line (W, 3): 7.0 IP, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 H, 6 SO, 4 BB
Kesson line: 0.2 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 H, 1 SO, 1 BB
Jacob line (S, 6): 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 SO, 1 BB