Langlais Homers Twice, Zimmerman Sets Doubles Record in Doubleheader Sweep at IPFW

Saturday, April 19

Fort Wayne, Ind.

12 p.m.

North Dakota State

8-21, 1-8

IPFW

8-22-1, 4-6

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
North Dakota State	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	4	7	10	4
IPFW	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	12	4

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
North Dakota State	4	1	0	2	1	0	0	8	12	1
IPFW	0	1	1	0	0	0	5	7	13	0

Langlais Homers Twice, Zimmerman Sets Doubles Record in Doubleheader Sweep at IPFW

4/20/2008 12:48:00 AM | Baseball

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FORT WAYNE, Ind.--Ryan Langlais homered in both games and Kole Zimmerman broke North Dakota State's career doubles record as the Bison swept a Summit League baseball doubleheader at IPFW by scores of 7-3 and 8-7 on Saturday, April 19.

Langlais hit a grand slam with one out in the ninth inning of the opening game to break a 3-3 tie and send North Dakota State to its first Summit League victory. His sacrifice fly in the third scored NDSU's only run until Sebastian Miles' two-run single in the eighth plated Langlais and Kenny Beese with the tying runs.

Shane Bushland pitched the final two scoreless innings and upped his record to 4-2 with the victory. NDSU starter Matt Bowar allowed three runs on eight hits with two walks in the first seven innings.

North Dakota State (9-21, 2-8) strung together five straight singles and took a 4-0 lead in the first inning of the nightcap before Zimmerman led off the second with his school-record 45th career double and scored on a Langlais single to make it 5-0. The former record holder was Matt Mann, who hit 44 doubles in three seasons from 2000-02.

IPFW (8-23-1, 4-7) plated single runs in the second and third before Langlais hit a two-run home run in the fourth and Kyle Harrison drew a bases-loaded walk in the fifth for an 8-2 Bison lead.

NDSU starter Ben Mathiason struck out five and issued no walks in 6 2/3 innings, but he ran into trouble in the seventh. IPFW got six hits off Mathiason, the last four all with two outs to make it 8-5, before Bushland came on to get his second save of the year.

Bushland's only batter, Mark Carden, hit a two-run single into left-center field that made it 8-7, but Harrison's throw back to the infield caught Jimmy Gilliland off second base to end the game.

Langlais hit 4-for-8 with eight RBIs and three runs scored in the doubleheader. Second baseman Chris Lovas was the only other NDSU player with multiple hits in the first game. He was 2-for-4 with a run scored.

Four players each had two hits for NDSU in the nightcap. Langlais, Miles and Chad Berg were all 2-for-4, and David Williams was 2-for-3 with two runs scored.

IPFW's Carden and Jared Davis were both 3-for-4 in the second game. Gilliland hit 3-for-4 for the Mastodons in the opener.

The four-game series is scheduled to conclude with a single nine-inning game at noon Sunday, April 20.