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Emily Stetz
Drew Hill (3-for-4, 3 R, 3 RBI) finished a triple short of the cycle and hit his team-leading seventh home run in the third inning.
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Wayne St. (Mich.) WSU 26-9
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Winner Hillsdale HC 17-19
Wayne St. (Mich.) WSU
26-9
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Final
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Hillsdale HC
17-19
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Wayne St. (Mich.) WSU 3 1 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 10 10 2
Hillsdale HC 0 2 1 1 0 0 6 0 1 11 9 0

W: Drew Law (1-1) L: Cardinale, Rocco (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Cooper Weidenthaler, Assistant Director for Media Relations

Baseball Squanders Six-Run Lead, Falls 11-10 at Hillsdale

The Chargers walked off the Warriors with an RBI single in the bottom of the ninth.

HILLSDALE, Mich. -- In a departure from conference action on Tuesday afternoon, the No. 21-ranked Wayne State University baseball squad (26-9 overall) renewed acquaintances with G-MAC member Hillsdale College (17-19 overall) at Lenda and Glenda Hill Stadium at TFO Partners Field.  While the Warriors were feeling good after five innings of action (up 10-4), the hosts rallied back for a walk-off 11-10 victory.  WSU will return to GLIAC play on Friday afternoon to begin a four-game series at Roosevelt, with first pitch of game one slated for 4 p.m. Eastern time.

The Green and Gold scored early and often over the first five frames, with runs scored in all five innings.  That began with a three-run first inning to emerge with a 3-0 advantage.  Wayne State's first run came from Drew Hill (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. / Grosse Pointe North) on an RBI single to left field that scored Brady Blakita (Canton, Mich. / Detroit Catholic Central), after Blakita walked and stole both second and third base.  The next two runs were plated when Bennett Hitzelberger (Richmond, Mich.) doubled to right and both Hill and Ty Garza (Grosse Ile, Mich. [Barton College]) crossed home.

WSU made the score 4-0 in the top of the second when catcher Cooper Clark (London, Ont. / Lord Dorchester S.S.) cranked the first home run of his collegiate career in his ninth game.  Clark became the 13th different Warrior to homer in 2026.

After Hillsdale was able to scratch home a pair of runs in the bottom of the second, WSU was at it again in the third when Hill bashed a two-run HR to right center, which scored a Garza walk.  It was Hill's seventh home run of the season to once again tie the junior for the team lead.

HC would make the score 6-3 in the bottom of the third inning, before the Warriors manufactured their seventh run in the fourth.  Alfredo Velazquez (Livonia, Mich. / Brother Rice [Michigan]) started things with a single, before stealing second and moving to third on a passed ball.  Nick Sandiha, Jr. (West Bloomfield, Mich. / Brother Rice [Macomb C.C.]) would drive in Velazquez with a ground ball to second base.

The back-and-forth continued as the Chargers made the score 7-4 following an error, while the Green and Gold added its final three runs in the fifth.  Owen Tuccinardi (Ann Arbor, Mich. / Skyline) plated both Hill and Garza with a two-run single, then Caleb Sanders (Eastpointe, Mich. / Detroit Edison Public School Academy [Dayton]) doubled in Tuccinardi with a drive to right field.

However, the runs would stop there as Wayne State would be held off the board for the final four frames.  Hillsdale used a six-run seventh to tie the game at 10-10, before winning the game via a walk-off in the bottom of the ninth.

Not atypical for a mid-week contest, the Warriors threw nine pitchers into the game.  Only starting pitcher Will DeMasse (Macomb, Mich. / Dakota) saw more than an inning of work (2 IP), as many of the pitchers saw little to no action over the weekend against Saginaw Valley State and needed work.  Besides DeMasse, the eight Warrior relievers were Nick Baker (Brighton, Mich. [Lansing C.C.]), TJ McAllister (St. Clair Shores, Mich. / South Lake), Coy Plummer (New Hudson, Mich. / South Lyon), Carson Tehan (LaSalle, Ont. / Sandwich S.S.), Ethan Getting (Kalamazoo, Mich. / Portage Northern [Purdue Northwest]), Landon Ide (Fort Myers, Fla. / Bonita Springs), Rocco Cardinale (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. / Grosse Pointe North), and Philip Miller (Flat Rock, Mich. / Woodhaven [Schoolcraft C.C. / Tusculum]).

DeMasse and Plummer each punched out a pair, while Plummer and Tehan each had perfect innings in the fifth and the sixth.  The cumulative final line was 8.2 IP, 9 H, 11 ER, 6 BB, and 7 SO.


 
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