GLENDALE, Wis. – The MSOE baseball team celebrated their senior day on their final home series of the season Saturday afternoon with Rockford University. The Raiders and Regents went back and forth in game one with the Red & White stealing it late before
Blake Hall blasted two home runs to give them the senior day sweep.
RESULTS
MSOE RAIDERS – 8
Rockford – 7
MSOE RAIDERS – 12
Rockford - 5
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Game One
- Rockford (13-21, 9-11 NACC) put a damper in the senior day celebrations early putting up four runs in the top of the first inning. MSOE (21-11, 15-5, NACC) didn't back down in the bottom of the third after a Hall RBI single through the right side sparked a five-run inning to which the Raiders took the lead after a sacrifice fly from Kyle Labedz 5-4.
- The Regents didn't go away as in the top of the fifth added three more runs onto to the scoreboard to take a 7-5 lead. After two leadoff walks in the bottom of the sixth, each came around to score from RBIs from Brandon Beauchamp and Hall to tie things at seven. A miscue from the Regents a ball hit by Meidenbauer allowed him to reach on an error to score Hall as the Raiders took an 8-7, to which they were able to hold after Tyler Gronert was able to finish them off on the mound to steal game one.
- Game Two
- After allowing a run on the basepaths in the top of the first, Hall used some power the extreme winds on the day to blast one over the right field fence to tie things at one. Jack Kalitowski singled up the middle to score Labedz in the second to give them a 2-1 lead but was quickly responded in the top of the third from the Regents when they took a 3-2 lead. Micah Overley and Collin Truitt used their big power bats to answer in the bottom half to give the Red & White a 4-3 lead.
- The Raiders never relinquished the lead from that point on after in the fifth inning batted around with bases loaded for a few at-bats to extend the lead 8-3. The Regents cut into their deficit in the sixth inning making it 8-5 but the Raiders continued to extend their lead, including Hall blasting his second of the game over the same right field fence as the Raiders completed the senior day sweep 12-5.
NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
WHO'S ON DECK
The Raiders will make the short trip over to Wauwatosa to take on Wisconsin Lutheran College on Tuesday, April 30
th. First pitch is set for 12:00 PM with game two to follow.
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