Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Dordt Defender baseball team lost a 6-5, 13-inning decision to start their oubleheader with Doane and lost a 6-0 decision in game two in Crete, Nebraska on Thursday afternoon, April 3.

Game 1 Box Score (PDF)
Game 2 Box Score (PDF)

GAME 1
Dordt was unable to hold three leads going into the bottom half of what could have been the last inning and dropped the 13-inning game to start the day.  Dordt came back from a 2-0 deficit in the fourth inning with a sacrifice fly by Chisum Demmers and a two-run single by Drew Oreskes. The lead held until the bottom of the seventh inning when the hosts got a run across with two outs to force extra innings.

After  a scoreless eighth, ninth and tenth inning Dordt got a run on a single by Braeden Biggar that scored Caleb Beard.  It was one of three hits Biggar had in the game.  Doane again got a run across to tie the game on chopped single to third base.  A scoreless 12^th inning ensued and Dordt went up again in the 13^th with Logan Templeton delivering a sacrifice fly that scored Gabriel McFarland.  Doane proceeded to get a bases loaded walk in the 13^th to tie the game and won it on a singe with the bases loaded.

Dordt used nine pitchers in the game and Doane had a 12-10 hits advantage.

THE NUMBERS
Dordt 5r | 10h | 2e | 5lob
Doane 6r | 12h | 0e | 13lob

Dordt Leaders
Braeden Biggar | 3-5 | 1r | 1rbi
Morgan Wilkins | 2-4 | 1r
Drew Oreskes | 1-1 | 2rbi
Bennett Spronk | 5ip | 4h | 2r | 1er | 3k
Mason Price | 2 1/3ip | 3h | 0r | 1k

GAME 2
Doane scored in each of the first four innings and played from in front for a 6-0 win. The Tigers had a run each in the first, second and fourth and scored three in the third for their 19^th win of the season.

Dordt stranded two in the second and sixth innings and had a base runner in six out of seven innings but was limited to four hits in the loss.

Logan Templeton led off the second with a double and Morgan Wilkins walked. A sacrifice bunt got the two runners into scoring position but a strike out and a pop out ended the inning. Dordt's threat in the sixth had Matthew McMillian getting hit by a pitch and Wilkins had a single but a pop out in foul territory and a strikeout ended the uprising.

Dordt is 15-21 while Doane stands 19-10. Dordt is scheduled to face Hastings on Saturday, April 5 at 3pm.

THE NUMBERS
Dordt |  0r | 4h | 2e | 8lob
Doane | 6r | 9h | 0e | 8lob

Dordt Leaders
Logan Templeton | 2-3 | 2b
Jared Hughes | 4ip | 8h | 3er | 1k
Lincoln Vander Molen | 2ip | 1h | 0r