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Lourdes' starter Landen Vance threw six innings for the game one victory.
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Winner Lourdes LOURDES 11-16
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Cornerstone (MI) CORNERST 9-20
Winner
Lourdes LOURDES
11-16
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Final
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Cornerstone (MI) CORNERST
9-20
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Lourdes LOURDES 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 5 11 0
Cornerstone (MI) CORNERST 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 7 2

W: Vance, Landen (2-3) L: Connor Comiskey (1-3) S: Ragusa, Ryan (2)

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Lourdes LOURDES 11-17
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Winner Cornerstone (MI) CORNERST 10-20
Lourdes LOURDES
11-17
5
Final
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Cornerstone (MI) CORNERST
10-20
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Lourdes LOURDES 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 5 8 0
Cornerstone (MI) CORNERST 1 1 1 6 4 2 X 15 17 2

W: Bobby Kelly (1-2) L: Hall, Ayden (1-4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Gray Wolves Split Again with Golden Eagles

Lourdes remains in 8th in the WHAC

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The Lourdes baseball team (11-17, 5-7 in WHAC) split again with the Cornerstone Golden Eagles (10-20, 6-6 in WHAC) on Saturday afternoon on the road in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Lourdes won the first game in a close 5-4 battle, but lost the second game 3-13. Lourdes stays put in eighth place in the WHAC, one game behind Cornerstone for the No. 7 seed.

The Gray Wolves finish their road trip with a 2-4 record and are two games below .500 in the conference.

Game 1: W, 5-4
The afternoon opener was a pitcher's duel throughout the game. Lourdes' starter Landen Vance and Cornerstone's starter Connor Comiskey were gliding through the opposing team's lineups and barely let base runners on through the first three innings.

Lourdes finally broke the 0-0 tie in the fourth with an RBI single by Alex Dupree to score Jase Kennedy. In the next inning, Jace Bloomer hit a sacrifice fly to score Landon Brown. The RBI gave Lourdes a 2-0 lead and chased Comiskey out of the game with 78 pitches. Ryan McArthur came in the game and got out of the rest of the fifth inning unscathed.

However, McArthur's sixth inning wasn't so lucky. Lourdes' centerfielder Drake Sekinger continued his outstanding end of the month with a double that scored Landon Brown and Jay Breed. Sekinger went 4-for-4 in the game with two more RBI's, giving him 10 hits in a row off of Cornerstone pitching.

Then, Will Brose scored Sekinger after reaching first base on an error by the Cornerstone shortstop. The score was a 5-0 Lourdes lead heading into the bottom half of the sixth.

Landen Vance gave up just two hits through the first five innings but ran out of gas a little bit in the sixth. Cornerstone connected for a double and three singles in the inning. A pair of walks also moved some runners in scoring position as Cornerstone put four runs up heading into the final frame.

Vance's outing ended with eight strikeouts, six hits allowed, four earned runs allowed, and only one walk allowed. The Metamora, Ohio native had control of the game for most of it and held his composure well in the sixth to hold onto the lead.   

Freshman relief pitcher Ryan Ragusa came into the game in the seventh and shut down the Cornerstone comeback with his second save of the season.

Game 2: L, 5-15
Game two started off in a familiar place, with Drake Sekinger hitting an RBI single in the first inning. Sekinger added another RBI single in the third inning to combat Cornerstone's two runs as the game was tied at two apiece after the top half of the third. Sekinger went an absurd 13-for-16 with nine RBI's against Cornerstone in the series, including 12 consecutive hits between game two, game three, and his first two at-bats in game four.

Sekinger's batting average jumped up nearly 100 points this week from .263 to .360. He now holds the 10th best average in the WHAC. Alex Dupree's .375 average is 6th best in the conference. Lourdes is one of only four teams to have multiple batters in the top-10 for average (UNOH, Madonna, Cleary).  

Despite these strong individual performances, Cornerstone played better collectively as a team in game two. The Golden Eagles broke the 3-3 tie in a big bottom of the fourth with three runs on one walk and three hits off Lourdes' starter Ayden Hall. Cornerstone then put up three more runs on two extra-base hits against Lourdes' reliever Noah Maniaci.

The fifth inning extended the lead for Cornerstone as Caleb Loboschefski gave up four more runs on four hits. The Golden Eagles' bats coming alive in the middle innings resulted in a 13-3 lead heading into the sixth.

Lourdes third baseman Landon Brown had another solid performance at the plate with a two-RBI triple in the sixth inning, cutting the lead to eight runs. However, Cornerstone extended it back to 10 runs in the bottom half of the inning off of Joe Smith.

Cornerstone's starting pitcher, Bobby Kelly, was relieved by Jordan Eck in the sixth inning. Eck threw 35 pitches to get out of a couple jams and give the Golden Eagles the 10-run victory. Despite six strikeouts, Lourdes starting pitcher Ayden Hall was credited with his fourth loss of the year after giving up seven earned runs and nine hits in three innings pitched.  

Next Up
Lourdes' road trip is over as the Gray Wolves will head back home on Tuesday, March 31 at 4pm to take on Spring Arbor in a non-conference matchup.
 
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