2008 Woodie Awards
Flyers ground Falcons
Losing streak moves to three as Flyers drop BG 7-2
By: Ethan Magoc
Issue date: 4/9/08 Section: Sports
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The Flyers downed the Falcons 7-2 at Steller Field in what could have been a very winnable game for the home team.
Instead, BG surrendered four total errors, two in the first inning alone, and never found the intensity needed to get back in the game.
"I have no idea why we came out flat today," said a visibly frustrated BG coach Danny Schmitz. "We talked on Monday just to reassure the guys that we are always playing the game aggressive and with confidence."
Clearly that discussion had little effect after the Falcons lost two of three to Central Michigan over the weekend and then went on to surrender an out-of-conference defeat to Dayton.
"We need to find out who are leaders are going to be. Anybody can lead when things are going well, but right now we're not getting the leadership we need when things are not going well," Schmitz said.
The team that Dayton coach Tony Vittorio is used to seeing when he visits BG certainly was not present yesterday.
"The energy of his team is something that I usually commend coach Schmitz for," Vittorio said. "We teach the same thing, there's no doubt about it. Our styles are a lot alike."
Maybe so, but Vittorio's players seemed to actually listen to him when they came out and scored a run in each of the first three innings off of BG starter Brian Hangbers. Brennan Smith came on in relief of Hangbers and threw three relatively quality innings.
Relatively is the key word here because he only gave up two earned runs, but received one measly run from his own offense.
That came on a sacrifice fly by Logan Meisler in the fifth inning.
By that time the score was 6-0 in Dayton's favor, good enough to earn starter Sean Finn his second win of the season.
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