Box Score
Box score
RIVER FOREST, Ill. - The Wisconsin Lutheran
College baseball team dropped game one of its Northern Athletics
Conference doubleheader to Concordia University Chicago 17-0
Saturday afternoon at Cougar Field.
The Cougars gave themselves a five-run cushion in the first
inning, using two Wisconsin Lutheran errors and a pair of big home
runs to grab an early lead off WLC junior starter Austin Backhaus
(Campbellsport, Wis./Campbellsport).
Concordia Chicago did not score in the second, but put a six
spot up in the third inning and three more in both the fifth and
sixth. The Cougars used 23 hits to end the game in seven innings
due to run-rule.
The Warriors only mustered three hits against CUC's pitching
staff, two of them coming from junior Justin Barkhurst (Crete,
Ill./Illinois Lutheran) and the other from junior Brad Marshall
(Cudahy, Wis./Wisconsin Lutheran).
Jason Jusk earned the win (4-0) for Concordia (19-6, 6-3 NAC) as
he tossed 5.0 scoreless innings, allowing just two hits. He struck
out five and walked one. Dan Eichholzer had four hits, knocked in
four runs and scored three times to lead the Cougars offensively.
Eight from CUC had two or more hits in the game.
Wisconsin Lutheran (6-17, 3-7 NAC) will take on Concordia
Chicago in the second game of its doubleheader on Saturday at 3
p.m. in River Forest, Ill.
