Baseball falls on road to RHIT in conference action
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – In a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader on Sunday, the Defiance College baseball team fell to the host Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Fightin’ Engineers, 8-4 and 10-1, at Art Nehf Field.
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 8 | 12 | 1 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
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2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 10 | 9 | 0 |
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – In a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader on Sunday, the Defiance College baseball team fell to the host Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Fightin' Engineers, 8-4 and 10-1, at Art Nehf Field.
In the opening game, Rose-Hulman scored three times in the first inning, once in each of the third and fourth innings, and twice in the fifth for a 7-0 lead. The Fightin' Engineers added a run in the seventh before Defiance sliced its deficit in half with a four-run eighth.
The Yellow Jackets, who were guilty of three of the contest's four errors, had eight hits while RHIT collected 12. DC struck out 11 times and drew only two walks.
At the plate for Defiance, Lane Good was 2 for 4 with a run batted in while Josh Vischer also ended with two hits. Nate Kaffenbarger doubled while Colin Minner chipped in with an RBI single.
Will Bohlman pitched the first 4.1 innings with five strikeouts for the Yellow Jackets, but suffered the loss. Kendall Duval allowed just one run over the last 3.2 innings, striking out one.
The hosts got out to another big lead in the second game, scoring twice in the first inning and three times in the second for a 5-0 advantage. A five-run fourth put Rose-Hulman ahead, 10-0, before DC avoided a shutout with a run in the sixth.
The Fightin' Engineers had a 9-7 edge in hits and played error-free defensively. Defiance stranded 11 baserunners to RHIT's seven.
Zach Johnson came off the bench to go 2 for 2 with the Yellow Jackets' lone RBI while Lucas Thomeier went 2 for 4.
In the pitching department for DC, Michael Reese started and struck out three over two innings, but absorbed the loss. Freshman Jeremy Russo recorded five strikeouts over three scoreless, hitless innings before Billy McNamara, another freshman, tossed a perfect eighth.
Defiance drops to 4-10 overall and in the HCAC while Rose-Hulman is 6-5. This Wednesday at 4 p.m., the Jackets are scheduled to host Anderson University in a single conference game.