Baseball Drops Final Games In Sunshine State

FORT MYERS, Fla. (WLCSports.com) – The Wisconsin Lutheran College baseball team dropped two seven-inning non-conference games to Haverford, 6-2 and 6-2, Friday in its final day of the Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic at the Player Development Complex.

THE BASICS

• Final Scores: Haverford 6, Wisconsin Lutheran 2; Haverford 6, Wisconsin Lutheran 2
• Records: Wisconsin Lutheran (2-7), Haverford (4-7),
• Location: Player Development Complex, Fort Myers, Fla.

GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS

• The Fords plated a pair of first-inning runs on a wild pitch and a single by Sam Partee to left field.
• Haverford added another run in the third inning on a double by Matt Goss to left, giving the Fords a 3-0 advantage.
• Ryan Michael (Racine, Wis.) brought WLC within one run in the top of the fifth inning when he ripped a single up the middle, driving in two runs.
• Haverford answered in the bottom of the fifth with a sacrifice fly, pushing its lead to 4-2.
• The Fords tacked on two more insurance runs in the sixth on a two RBI-single to center field.
• WLC finished with nine hits in the game; KJ Banse (Racine, Wis.), Joe Hanson (La Crosse, Wis.), and Michael had two hits apiece. The Warriors also left 10 runners on base.
• Brock Vredeveld (Waterloo, Wis.) allowed six runs, five earned, on 12 hits and struckout three in 6.0 innings on the mound.

GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS

• In the first inning, Brannigan Hart (Davie, Fla.) scored on a wild pitch to give the Warriors an early 1-0 lead.
• Haverford scored two runs in the fourth inning on a triple to left center by Nick Perez.
• Later in the inning, the Fords tacked on two more runs on a sacrifice bunt and a single to left field.
• WLC added a single run in the fourth on a Hanson RBI single that plated Vredeveld.
• The Fords added another run in the fifth on a sacrifice fly to center field to take a 5-1 lead.
• Haverford plated one more insurance run in the seventh on a double to right center, giving the Fords the 6-2 victory.
• WLC finished with just three hits in the game.
• Dylan Knoespel (Brillion, Wis.) allowed five runs, on nine hits in 6.0 innings of work.

FOR THE FOES

• Sam Partee went 3-for-4 with an RBI in the opener for the Fords. Goss also had three hits and drove in a run.
• Nathan Bass allowed no runs, on five hits, with three strikeouts in four innings on the rubber.
• Ethan Lee-Tyson had three hits in the second game, while Perez had three RBIs.
• Luke Duris pitched a complete game allowing two runs, on three hits, while striking out five.

UP NEXT

• Wisconsin Lutheran has a week off before it travels to Naperville, Illinois, to face No. 4 North Central (2-2) March 24. The doubleheader is set to begin at Noon at Zimmerman Stadium. Live stats will be available at WLCSports.com.