GAME 1
The Dordt University baseball team gave up two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and lost to Dakota Wesleyan 4-3 in game one of a conference doubleheader played this afternoon in Sioux Center, Iowa.
With the Defenders in front 3-2 heading into the bottom of the seventh, Dakota Wesleyan pushed two runs across on two hits, a walk and an error to earn the come-from-behind win. J.T. Kostenbauer started the rally with a leadoff single off Dordt reliever
Charlie Hennessy (1-2), who then advance to second on a wild pitch. Kaleb Carmichael reached base on a Dordt fielding error and Lane Dorrow drew a walk to load the bases. Seth Christiansen came up and hit a line drive single that defected off Hennessy and scored Kostenbauer from third to tie the score 3-3. Diego Jirau earned the game-winning RBI on a walk in the next at-bat.
The Defenders received another outstanding effort from
Gyeongju Kim, who limited DWU to four hits and two runs while striking out 11 Tiger hitters in six innings in registering the no-decision.
Nolan Christianson reached base three times and paced the Defenders with two hits and scored a run. Both
Drew Oreskes and
Logan De Vries went 1-for-3 with an RBI while
Logan Harris,
Jason Carrig and
Juan Sanchez all had one hit each.
Dordt went ahead in the top of the first on a two-out, RBI single from De Vries that scored Christianson from second. Dakota Wesleyan responded with a run in their half of the first inning when Jirau hit a two-out double and came across home plate after a single by Dalton Wilcoxsen.
The Defenders added two runs in the second off DWU starter Jericko Martinez, who walked two, hit another batter and balked in a run within the inning. Oreskes had an RBI groundout that scored Harris and put Dordt up 3-1.
Kim allowed just two DWU baserunners, both on walks, over the next four innings. The Tigers broke through with a run in the sixth after a one-out single by Jirau who came around to score after an infield single and RBI groundout from Carter Gullickson. Kim, however, struck out pinch-hitter Oscar Pravecek with the tying run at third.
Dakota Wesleyan totaled six hits, led by Jirau, who went 2-3 with a walk and two runs scored. Troy Wilhelm (1-0) pitched four scoreless innings of relief to earn his first win of the season.
By the Numbers...
- Kim has pitched at least six innings in each of his last six starts
- Kim has 10-or-more strikeouts in three games this season
- Carrig extended his hit streak to five games
- Christianson and De Vries have both hit safely in three straight games
- the loss snaps a five-game win streak by the Defenders against DWU
GAME 2
The Dordt Defender baseball team took advantage of 11 bases on balls and 11 hits to forge a 10-3 win in game two of its doubleheader on Monday afternoon.
Two big innings proved to be enough and the Defenders forced a split of the doubleheader. Dordt started the scoring with a run in the first inning when
Logan Harris scored when
Dylan Stanley reached on an error. Dordt got in a bit of a jam in the home half of the inning but was able to get a double play to end the threat.
Wesleyan got a run back to tie it briefly at 1-1 after two innings. In the third inning Dordt's first two batters were retired on two pitches but the Defenders didn't go quietly with
Jason Carrig delivering a single that scored
Logan De Vries and
Juan Sanchez knocked in two with a single of his own. Two more runs scored on wild pitches and Dordt had a 6-1 lead.
A pair of bases loaded walks added to the lead in the fifth inning and
Logan De Vries had a two-run single to lead 10-1 in the fifth inning. Dakota Wesleyan did put together a threat in the seventh with a pair of runs but they fell well short in the 10-3 final.
THE NUMBERS
- Nick Yeager earned his fourth win of the season and allowed one run on seven hits with five strikeouts and no walks.
- Matthew Ramstead pitched the final two innings and gave up two runs on three hits with three strikeouts.
- Logan De Vries was 2-4 with two runs batted in and Juan Sanchez was 2-3 with two runs batted in. Sanchez's double was the only extra base hit of the game for Dordt.
- Dordt is now 14-12 overall and 2-6 in the conference while Dakota Wesleyan is 4-17 overall and 1-9 in the conference.
- Dordt is scheduled to face Briar Cliff on Tuesday, April 4 at 1:00 pm.
