April 28, 2009

Penguins to Play 2,000th Game Wednesday vs. Marshall at Cene Park

    Youngstown -- Youngstown State will play its 2,000th game as a program on Wednesday in a doubleheader against Marshall. It will be the Guins’ only stop at Cene Park this season. First pitch is set for 1 p.m., and both games will be seven innings.

    The Penguins won one out of three games against the Thundering Herd in mid-March, but they scored just four runs combined in the series. The Guins are in a similar hitting funk entering the doubleheader. In the last 10 games, YSU has scored more than three runs only twice and eclipsed 10 hits twice. One of those two games came in the finale at Butler Sunday when YSU won 6-5 in 10 innings behind 13 hits, their highest total since having 14 against the Bulldogs on April 4.

    YSU was scheduled to play its 2,000th game on Sunday, but a doubleheader at Milwaukee on Saturday was rained out. YSU, which captured the program’s 1,000th victory earlier this season, is playing in its 55th season dating back to 1948.

    YSU will play three games at Valparaiso, a team it owns a 1/2 game lead over in the Horizon standings, this weekend.