The Dordt Defender baseball team earned a split of its games with Mount Marty on a day when the wind was blowing out at Open Space Park in Sioux Center.
Game 1 Dordt 9, Mount Marty 8
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Dordt opened the doubleheader by showing resilience, overcoming an early 5-1 deficit to defeat Mount Marty with a three-run seventh inning.
The Defenders' power was on display early as
Logan Templeton crushed a solo home run in the first. After the Lancers surged ahead,
Drew Oreskes ignited the comeback with a solo blast in the second, followed by a
Ryan Vann RBI single that cut the lead to 5-4.
In the sixth, trailing 6-4,
Luke Arndorfer provided heroics off the bench with a massive two-run pinch-hit home run to tie the game. The drama peaked in the bottom of the seventh; after an RBI single by Oreskes and a Lancer error tied the game, Jarett Herz became the hero by being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, forcing in the winning run for the walk-off victory.
Dordt Stat Leaders:
- Drew Oreskes: 3-4, 2 RBI, 1 HR, 1 Run
- Logan Templeton: 1-2, 1 RBI, 1 HR, 2 BB, 1 Run
- Luke Arndorfer: 1-1, 2 RBI, 1 HR, 1 Run
- Ryan Vann: 1-4, 1 RBI
- Logan Harris: 1-3, 2 Runs
- Stephen Dillender: 1-3, 1 Run
- Jarett Herz: 1 RBI
Dordt Pitching Leaders
- Matt Eubanks: 4.1 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 4 BB, 9 K
- Derrick Nonhof: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K
- Drew DeVries: 0.3 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
- Ty Neugebauer (W, 1-2): 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 2 K
Game 2 Mount Marty 17, Dordt 14
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The nightcap turned into an offensive marathon, with the two teams combining for 31 runs and 29 hits. While Dordt's bats remained red-hot, a six-run sixth inning for Mount Marty proved too much to overcome.
Dordt's scoring was paced by a relentless middle-inning push.
Stephen Dillender launched a solo home run in the fourth, and Jimmy Twombley added a sacrifice fly to keep the Defenders within striking distance. In the sixth, the Defenders exploded for six runs, highlighted by a bases-clearing three-run double from
Logan Harris, followed by RBI doubles from
Drew Oreskes and Dillender.
Oreskes continued his monster day with a three-run home run in the seventh to bring the score to 16-12. Despite a late push in the eighth featuring a
Logan Templeton RBI and a run scored on a wild pitch, the Defenders couldn't quite close the gap.
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Dordt Pitching Leaders
