SCORES
Game 1 Midland def. Dordt 3-2
Game 2 Midland def. Dordt 10-7
GAME 1
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Dordt Defender baseball team lost a 3-2 decision to Midland on Monday, April 29 in Fremont, Nebraska. Midland scored the go ahead run in the fourth and held on.
Dordt scored in the third inning with a
Logan Harris single knocking in Nathan Eliason. Midland came back with two in the home half of the inning on a pair of solo homeruns.
Dordt got a run back to tie it on a
Drew Oreskes homerun but Midland had an answer in the home half of the fourth inning. Â Dordt's Eliason and Harris both reached in the fifth but Eliason was cut down trying to score on a rundown. Dordt had the tying run on in the sixth and seventh but couldn't get extend the game.
THE NUMBERS
- Dordt had an 8-5 hits advantage.
- Drew Oreskes was 3-3 with two singles and a homerun.
- Logan Harris had two hits and a run batted in.
- Logan De Vries knocked a double and Nathan Eliason was 2-2 with a base on balls.
- Robert Doble pitched the distance and gave up three runs and five hits with six strikeouts.
GAME 2
HOW IT HAPPENED
Dordt staged a late comeback but came up short in a 10-7 setback to Midland to end the season.
Dordt got a run in the third inning with
Joseph Schlesselman clubbing a solo home run. Midland came back with five in the third and Dordt scored a run in the top of the fourth as
Drew Oreskes came in to score on a fielder's choice.
Midland added five more in the home half of the fourth and led 10-2 until Dordt got five as Schlesselman walked with the bases loaded to get Oreskes in and
Logan De Vries followed with a grand slam Dordt threatened again in the seventh with two runners on but a strike out ended the game with the tying run at the plate.
THE NUMBERS
- Midland outhit the Defenders 11-8.
- Neither team committed an error.
- Schlesselman had a double and three runs batted in.
- Logan De Vries had a single and a home run with four runs batted in.
- Carson Belcher had a pair of singles and Oreskes had a double and two walks.
- Justin Bryson pitched two innings in relief and struck out four and allowed one hit.
- Dordt's Drew De Vries took the loss while pitching the first two and two-third innings.
- Dordt finishes the season with a 9-40 record and a 3-25 conference mark.
