DETROIT -- The Wayne State University baseball team (23-26 overall, 11-12 GLIAC) dropped both ends of a doubleheader to Parkside (30-18 overall, 12-11 GLIAC) on Saturday afternoon at Harwell Field. The teams will wrap up this four-game series and their regular seasons on Sunday with the first pitch scheduled for 10 a.m.
GAME ONE
All four of Parkside's runs were unearned as Wayne State's starting pitcher
Gabe Nazelli (Farmington Hills, Mich. / Detroit Country Day) pitched well in his five and two-thirds frames, but was handed the loss (5-4). Nazelli gave up six hits with three walks and four strikeouts while facing 27 batters on 91 total pitches.
Trailing 3-0, the Warriors put two runs on the board in the fifth inning.
Ty Garza (Grosse Ile, Mich. [Barton College]) singled in
Aidan Arbogast (Livonia, Mich. / Livonia Stevenson [Mid-Michigan C.C. / Kellogg C.C. / Eastern Michigan]) before
Jacoby Dale (Roseville, Mich. [Spring Arbor/Henry Ford CC]) doubled in Garza.
The Rangers tacked on a fourth and final run in the sixth for good measure.
After Nazelli,
Miles Jamieson (Grosse Pointe, Mich. / Grosse Pointe South [Mid Michigan / Davidson]) didn't allow a single hit over the course of the final four outs with two free passes and one punchout.
GAME TWO
Wayne State fell behind 1-0 in the top of the second before Arbogast hit a solo home run, his fifth of the season, in the home half to even the score up at 1-1. That blast marked the first baseman's second in his last three outings and third-straight effort with an extra-base hit.
Parkside proceeded to score one run in the fourth and two more in the fifth to take a three-run advantage, 4-1.
In the bottom of the fifth, Garza notched his second RBI of the day as he forced in
Tony Hatzigeorgiou (Oxford, Mich.) following a routine groundout to the shortstop.
However, the Rangers added a score in both the sixth and eighth frames for their biggest lead of the game, 6-2.
In the ninth, the Warriors slimmed the deficit to three when
Bennett Hitzelberger (Richmond, Mich.) singled in Arbogast, but that would be it for the game's scoring.
On the mound,
Will DeMasse (Macomb, Mich. / Dakota) lasted five innings, but was dealt the loss to fall to 3-4. DeMasse surrendered four runs, three earned, on four hits with four walks and two strikeouts.
Macio Miller (Kimball, Mich. / Marysville [Jackson CC]) dazzled in four innings of relief, the longest bullpen appearance of his career. Miller was responsible for two unearned runs, four hits, no free passes, and two punchouts.