The Wabash College baseball team was held to ten hits in two games, including one in the opening loss to Wittenberg on Sunday, in North Coast Athletic Conference baseball action. The Tigers came away from Mud Hollow Field with a 2-0 win in game one on Sunday and a 9-5 victory in game two to take three out of four from the Little Giants in the weekend series.
Wabash pitcher Jon Horne (Cincinnati, OH/St. Xavier) and Wittenberg hurler Tom Fox were locked in a dual on the mound through the first four innings. Both pitchers held the opposition without a hit through the opening four frames before the Tigers laced a single in the fifth to break up Horne’s no-hit bid. The Little Giants would not scratch out a hit until a one-out single by Tyler Nance (JR/Celebration, FL/Celebration) in the eighth inning. It would be the only hit of the game for the Little Giants.
Horne only allowed three hits over 7-2/3 innings, but the Tigers made him pay for one of those hits. After back-to-back walks in the eighth, Ryan Goldschmidt placed a perfect bunt down the first base line that scored the game-winning run. Wittenberg added another run on a sacrifice fly to claim the extra innings victory.
The Tigers jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the second game, but Wabash responded with two runs in the bottom of the second when senior Mike Mack (Butler, IN/Eastside) blasted his sixth home run of the season over the left centerfield fence, scoring Chris Sides (SO/Brownsburg, IN/Brownsburg) after he opened the inning with a single to left. Wittenberg took the lead with three runs in the third, but the Little Giants answered with one run in their half of the third cut the Tigers’ lead to one on a sacrifice fly by Sides that scored Nick George (JR/Lafayette, IN/Harrison).
Wabash added two more runs in the fifth on an RBI double by Sides and a fielder’s choice by Dan Matusik (SR/Highland, IN/Highland). Wittenberg tied the game in the sixth on two hits and a fielder’s choice, then broke the game open in the seventh. The Tigers scored four runs after a two-out error by Wabash kept the inning alive. The Little Giants were retired in order in the bottom of the inning to fall to 1-3 in NCAC Western Division play.
Ramos led the Little Giants with three hits. Sides added two hits with two RBIs.
The Little Giants fall to 10-11 with the pair of losses. Wabash will return to the diamond on Saturday, April 3 when it travels to Ohio Wesleyan for a four-game NCAC Western division series against the Battling Bishops.
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