Cornell Scores 9 Runs in the 5th - Defeats Luther 9-7
May 4, 2008
Trailing 3-0 entering the top half of the fourth inning, Cornell exploded for nine runs on seven hits, en route to a 9-7 victory here in Decorah this afternoon.
In the lower half of the second, Luther tallied three runs on two hits. The Norse made it interesting, scoring four runs in the bottom of the eighth and had runners on second and third with one out in the ninth, but failed to get them to home plate and send the game into extra frames.
Jake Waddle and Jeff Hiatt both had three hits, while Jeff Riddle, Ben Schott and Zack Topping all had two.
The loss drops Luther's Iowa Conference record to 11-10, 17-16 overall. Cornell, who did not make the six-team Iowa Conference Tournament, completes its season with a league record of 7-13, 13-16.
Luther will be the #4 seed for the Iowa Conference Tournament and will play #5 seed Loras College at 1:00 p.m. at Daniels Park on the Campus of Coe College. This is the only game that will not be played at Veterans Memorial Park, home of the Cedar Rapids Kernels during the IIAC tournament. The tournament will run from May 8-10.
As soon as all of today's games are completed, the entire tournament schedule will be posted on the Iowa Conference website. Norse fans will be able to catch all of the play-by-play action via audio web stream at KWCL 1240 AM.
