DAVENPORT, Fla. -- Playing a single game on Saturday night, the Wayne State University baseball team (9-4 overall) was defeated by Northwood (4-9 overall) 9-8. The Warriors will be off on Sunday before playing at Saint Leo on Monday and first pitch against the Lions is scheduled for 6 p.m.
Wayne State struck first with two runs in the opening inning and another in the second.
Drew Hill (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. / Grosse Pointe North) doubled in both
Bennett Hitzelberger (Richmond, Mich.) and
Mason McGuire (Lyon Twp., Mich. / Brighton (Mott CC)) before
CJ Maury (Brampton, Ont. / Mayfield SS) singled in
Logan Van Sicklen (Waterford Twp., Mich. / Waterford Kettering).
Northwood proceeded to score a run of its own in the home half of the second before the Warriors punched right back with a single run in both the third and fourth frames. Hill brought in Hitzelberger with an RBI ground out to first and
Nate Crossman (Canton, Mich. / Ann Arbor Father Gabriel Richard) hit a solo home run to left, the first of his career.
WSU opened up a 7-1 advantage in the sixth when
Tony Hatzigeorgiou's (Oxford, Mich.) single to center scored a pair in Crossman and Van Sicklen.
However, NU rattled off four runs in both the sixth and seventh to take a two-run lead, 9-7. In the top of the ninth, Wayne State pulled within one on
Logan Tobel's (Brighton, Mich. / Hartland) RBI single (scored Hatzigeorgiou) before he was stranded at first.
Making the first start of his career,
Evan Langlois (Brownstown, Mich. / Woodhaven) threw five innings with five earned runs surrendered on five hits, four walks and three strikeouts. First out of the bullpen,
Cam Rosen (Ann Arbor, Mich. / Dexter) gave up two earned runs on three hits with one free pass and a punchout through an inning of work.
Then,
Macio Miller (Kimball, Mich. / Marysville (Jackson CC)) took the loss with just one batter retired.
Gavin Nash (Howell, Mich. / Hartland) pitched a scoreless inning in his first collegiate appearance and
David Thurman (Southfield, Mich. / Detroit Edison) was responsible for the final two thirds of the eighth.