Baseball team drops doubleheader against Kalamazoo

OLIVET, Mich. – The Olivet College baseball team came up short in both games of a doubleheader, 12-6 and 9-2, against Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) rival Kalamazoo College today at the Cutler Athletic Complex.

Final Scores: Kalamazoo 12, Olivet 6; Kalamazoo 9, Olivet 2
Location: Cutler Athletic Complex; Olivet, Michigan
Records: Olivet 7-24 overall, 2-15 MIAA; Kalamazoo 18-10 overall, 10-5 MIAA

• After the Hornets scored two runs in the top half of the first inning, the Comets answered with two runs in their half of the first to tie the game.
• Kalamazoo added to its lead on a solo home run in the third before sending 10 batters to the plate and scoring five runs in the fourth to make the score 8-2.
• Following the first out getting recorded in the bottom of fifth, there was a 72-minute weather delay.
• Olivet closed the gap to two runs with a pair of runs in both the sixth and seventh innings.
• The Hornets plated four insurance runs in the ninth inning.

• Olivet totaled nine hits.
• Senior Matt Fisher was 3-for-4 with one triple, two singles, two runs and three RBI.
• Senior Matt Hewitt had two hits, including a double.
• Senior Trevor Savage also tallied two hits.
• Senior Brendan Redding was the losing pitcher, as he yielded eight runs (seven earned) on nine hits over the first four innings.
• Freshman Josh Lucier struck out five batters in four innings of relief.

• From the leadoff spot in the lineup, Blake Bean was a triple shy of hitting for the cycle. He scored four runs.
• Spencer Baldwin recorded three hits and three RBI.
• Doug Propson had two hits, three runs and two RBI.
• Thomas Sylvester picked-up the pitching win, as he gave up four runs on seven hits over five and two-thirds innings.
• Three relief pitchers combined to allow two hits over the final three and one-third innings.

• The Hornets pushed across two runs in the first inning, four runs in the fourth and two runs in the fifth for an 8-0 lead.
• Sophomore Gabriel Kirck broke up the shutout with a two-run home run in the sixth inning.
• Kalamazoo added its final run in the seventh.
• The umpires called the after eight innings due to darkness.

• Olivet had only four hits.
• Senior Logan Sella reached base safely in two of his plate appearances, as he had an infield hit in the third and a walk in the fifth.
• The other hits were Kirck's home run, and singles by Fisher and junior Tyler Campbell.
• Senior Hunter Henson suffered the pitching loss. He gave up six runs on seven hits over the first three innings.

• The Hornets tallied 12 hits, with 11 singles and one double.
• Baldwin was 3-for-5.
• Propson collected two hits and four runs.
• Harrison Poeszat had one hit but drove in four runs.
• Steven Shelton threw six innings to pick-up the win.

• The Comets and Hornets wrap-up the three-game series tomorrow with one game at Woodworth Field in Kalamazoo. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m.