Detroit, Mich.— The Toledo baseball team defeated Madonna University at Comerica Park on Wednesday night, 13-0.

Playing under the lights at a Major League Baseball ballpark, the Rockets cranked out 20 hits while only allowing two, all while playing excellent defense.

"We did well in the three facets of the game we try to focus on every game," head coach Cory Mee said. "We pitched very well tonight, we played good defense, and we got some clutch hits."

The top half of Toledo's batting order went 16-for-25 with eight RBIs, nine runs scored, and four extra-base hits. Freshman John Servello and senior Brad Boss both tallied four hits, extending the former's hitting streak to 19 games. Senior AJ Montoya smacked a three-run home run and senior Corey Tipton drove in two runs. Senior Dalton Bollinger and junior Ross Adolph both recorded three hits apiece.

In the field, freshman Chris Meyers made play after play at shortstop, including a couple highlight reel diving efforts to put the cherry on top of his two-hit performance.

Sophomore Joey Prechtel was lights out on the mound for the Rockets. He threw five shutout innings and did not allow a baserunner until there were two outs in the fifth. Freshman Bryce Davis, junior Nate Haugh, freshman Kyle Bischoff, and sophomore Layne Schnitz-Paxton all pitched well in relief for UT.

Toledo resumes Mid-American Conference play this weekend at Central Michigan.


How it Happened

• Toledo started off quickly, scoring twice in the top of the second. Tipton drove in the game's first run on a double to left field and he came around to score on Boss' RBI single.
• Meyers scored on Tipton's double just after making a spectacular diving catch in the half inning prior.
• The Rockets scored four in the top of the third. Meyers drew a bases-loaded walk to start the offensive barrage, and the rest of the runs came in on a fielder's choice (freshman Zach Schwartzenberger), squeeze bunt (Tipton), and an RBI single (senior Casey Gose).
• Montoya stayed hot with a three-run bomb into the bullpen in left field. It was his third home run in the last four games.
• Meyers made all three defensive plays in the bottom of the fourth, ending the inning on a full-extension diving catch to his right.
• Adolph tripled off the wall in right field to bring in two runs in the top of the fifth, then came in to score on Bollinger's RBI double.
• In the bottom of the fifth, Prechtel allowed his first baserunner of the night on a single to right center field. He had retired the first 14 hitters of the night to that point.
• Servello singled in a run in the top of the sixth to make it 13-0.
• Once Prechtel exited the game Davis, Haugh, Bischoff, and Schnitz-Paxton all pitched an inning each and continued to stifle the Madonna offense.

Highlights from UT's victory against Madonna.


Head Coach Cory Mee post-game.


Senior Dalton Bollinger post-game.