Junior first baseman Mike Dufek (Scottsdale, Ariz./Desert Mountain) put together a career-best 6-for-6 day with five runs batted in and a pair of home runs to help the University of Michigan baseball team to its second-highest run total of the season in a 20-1 thumping of Western Michigan on Tuesday afternoon (May 5) at Hyames Field.
The Michigan offense pounded out 23 hits as 12 different players registered base knocks in support of sophomore starting pitcher Travis Smith (Austin, Texas/Stephen F. Austin) as he evened his season record to 5-5.
The Maize and Blue wasted no time, scoring four in the opening frame as senior leftfielder Kenny Fellows (Holt, Mich./Holt) drew a leadoff walk, stole his team-leading 15th base and scored on an RBI single from sophomore centerfielder Ryan LaMarre (Jackson, Mich./Lumen Christi) to make it 1-0. Dufek then started his monumental day, launching a three-run homer to left, giving Smith and the Wolverines a 4-0 cushion.
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