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Box Score 2 WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – Freshman Brandon McCumber threw the MSOE baseball team's third complete game in four outings this season, but it was not enough as the team was swept in a close doubleheader to Trine Tuesday on the second day of its Florida Trip.
The Raiders (1-3) could not rebound from a 3-0 deficit to fall in game one, while Andy Farrell outdueled McCumber in game two for a 2-0 Thunder (2-3) victory.
McCumber struck out five, walked one and scattered eight hits in his first collegiate start. He lowered the team ERA through four games to a scant 1.79. Seniors Luke Yogerst and Adam Vlaj each threw complete games Monday, with Yogerst tossing a two-hit shutout.
Trine got on the board in the top of the first, leading off the game with back-to-back singles. A ground out would make it 1-0. The Thunder then added an unearned run in the fourth.
At the plate, the Raiders got just five hits off Farrell and put a runner on second base just once. That came in the fourth inning when they got back-to-back singles with two outs, but could not get a runner over to third.
Senior David Miklosi led the way with two hits in the game, while three other players got hits for MSOE.
In game one, Trine also jumped ahead early. The Thunder plated a pair of runs in the first and another in the second to take a 3-0 lead.
The Raiders pulled one back in the fourth inning. Junior Jake Roberts hit a one-out double. Sophomore Nick Jablonski walked and sophomore Casey Magyar drove in Roberts with a double. Jablonski was thrown out at the plate trying score from first and Magyar was left stranded at second.
In the fifth inning, Vlaj was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning. Senior Tyler Magyar reached on a bunt single. Vlaj advanced all the way to third on the hit and scored when sophomore Tyler Doyle hit into a fielder's choice.
That was as close as the Red and White would get, as Trine retired the final seven batters of the game.
Junior Ben Falls threw six innings, allowin three runs on six hits and striking out one. Junior Josh Kundinger threw a scoreless sixth inning in relief, also getting a strikeout.
Casey Magyar finished with two hits in the game. He is the only Raider with a hit in each of the first four games of the season.
MSOE continues its Florida trip Thursday, taking on Houghton in Winter Haven.