FORT MYERS, Fla. (WLCSports.com) - Wisconsin Lutheran College dropped a pair of nine-inning games to Haverford and Ohio Wesleyan on Thursday at Terry Park. The Warriors fell to the Fords 13-2 before being edged by the Battling Bishops 4-3.
Haverford (6-3) jumped out to an early 1-0 lead after the top half of the first inning, but the Warriors (4-8) tied it up in the bottom half. Junior
Nolan Hodgins' (Caledonia, Wis.) RBI single to right field scored junior
Elijah Shevey (Muskego, Wis.) to even the score.
HC responded by tallying a run in the third, a pair in the fifth, and another in the sixth to take a 5-1 lead. WLC got a run back in the bottom of the sixth thanks to a RBI single from sophomore
Eli Michaelis (Wauwatosa, Wis.) that plated freshman
Colt Ratliff (Oxford, Ga.). Unfortunately, that would be the last run Wisconsin Lutheran scored, as the Fords plated five in the seventh and three more in the ninth to walk away with a 13-2 victory.
Hodgins, Michaelis, Shevey, Ratliff, and senior
Foster Engelhardt (North Richland Hills, Texas) each had a hit for the Warriors, while Hodgins and Michaelis drove in the two WLC runs.
Both teams started off game two hot, with each platting two runs in their first at-bats. Engelhardt drove in senior
Henry Strupp (Watertown, Wis.) with a RBI single and sophomore
Tim Frerking (Oconomowoc, Wis.) drove in freshman
Aiden Montgomery (St. Louis, Mo.) with a sac fly to right. Wisconsin Lutheran picked up another run in the bottom of the second, as Strupp scored on a passed ball, giving the Warriors a 3-2 advantage.
Ohio Wesleyan (6-3) tied it the score at 3-3Â in the top of the fourth, where it stayed deadlocked until the ninth, as junior pitcher
Elijah Shevey (Muskego, Wis.) threw four straight shutout innings. OWU picked up the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth and WLC was unable to answer, falling short 4-3.
Montgomery, Michaelis, and Hodgins led Wisconsin Lutheran with two hits apiece. Engelhardt and Frerking each drove in a run. Shevey threw 7.0 innings, allowing two runs on five hits, while tallying three strikeouts in the one-run loss.
WLC plays the final game of its spring break trip tomorrow at 9 a.m. ET against Skidmore (3-5) at Terry Park. Live coverage links can be found at WLCSports.com.      Â
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