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Junior Pat McMahon Sets Single-Season Hit Record On Senior Day; Wildcats Fall to Michigan State 6-2

Errors prove costly in season-ending loss

Pat McMahon set the NU single-season hits record with two hits in 6-2 loss to Michigan State.

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May 22, 2005

Box Score

EVANSTON, Ill. - Northwestern dropped a 6-2 decision to Michigan State on Senior Day Sunday afternoon. With two hits in today's game, junior Pat McMahon set the Northwestern single season record for hits with 82. He went 2-for-4 in the game and ended the 2005 season with a .400 (82-for-205) batting average. He is the first Wildcat since Mark Loretta (1993) to hit .400 in a season.

Making his first start of the season on Senior Day, center fielder Reid Simpson (Houston, Texas/Memorial) led off the bottom of the first with a double to left field. Simpson put NU on top 1-0 when he crossed home plate on Pat McMahon's (Mundelein, Ill./Carmel) 18th double of the season.

McMahon's double gave him 81 hits on the season, which tied the single-season school record.

Michigan State tied the game 1-1 in the top of the second inning. A leadoff single came around to score on a misplayed groundball.

A leadoff solo home run and a two-out RBI single put the Spartans ahead 3-1 in the top of the fifth inning.

McMahon made school history in the fifth inning when he lined an RBI single to center field. That single made him the school record holder in hits in a single season with 82. McMahon passed Tom Hildebrand (1985) and Jeremy Kurella (2000) for the school record.

McMahon's RBI single made the score 3-2 in favor of Michigan State.

MSU scored an unearned run in the top of the sixth inning. The Wildcats made two errors in the inning, which allowed the run to cross the plate.

The Spartans extended their lead to 5-2 when Ryan Basham hit a one-out solo home run. MSU would go on to plate another run without getting a hit. A pair of walks and an error scored the run.

NU managed just two hits after the sixth inning and did not threaten the rest of the game.

Northwestern ended the 2005 season with a 26-28 overall record, 14-18 in the Big Ten.