The Purdue Northwest baseball team hosted Upper Iowa this Sunday where they competed in a double header. The Pride ended up splitting the games losing the first game 1-4 and winning the second 7-1.
Game 1, vs. Upper Iowa - L, 1-4 (7 innings)
The Breakdown
- Junior Jonathan Sabotnik () led the Pride with 3.
- Luke Montgomery (Orland Park, Ill./St. Laurence High School), Ray Hilbrich (Schererville, Ind./Lake Central), Ethan Imlach (Mokena, Ill./Mount Carmel), and Jack Gallagher (Bloomington, Ind./Bloomington North High School) all each contributed one hit.
- Freshman Peyton Niksch (Lowell, Ind./Andrean) started on the mound for the Pride pitching 4.2 innings and recording five strikeouts.
- Vargas led Upper Iowa with one hit and two RBIs.
- Ramer pitched 4 innings for the Peacocks and tallied 4 strikeouts.
- The Pride striked first in the first inning from an RBI sac fly from Tyler Nelson () scoring Montgomer.
- Upper Iowa notched their first runs in the fifth inning putting up three runs to take a 3-1 lead.
- The Pride would get runners on base but could not find a way to get them to score.
- In the seventh inning the Peacocks would add one more run and slam the door defensively to secure a 4-1 victory.
Game 2, vs. Upper Iowa - W, 7-1 (9 innings)
The Breakdown
- Junior Brad Miller (Oak Forest, Ill./Oak Forest) led Purdue Northwest with two hit and scoring one run.
- Junior Alex Gasbarro (New Lenox, Ill./St. Laurence High School) also contributed a hit and two RBIs.
- Freshman Sam Carlisle (Portage, Mich./Portage North), started on the mound for the Pride and pitched four innings striking out five.
- Hoodjer led Upper Iowa with two hits.
- Lacey pitched four innings for the Peacocks and recorded 3 strikeouts.
- The Pride took and early lead through the first four innings putting up 3 runs from an Owen Winters (Kouts, Ind./Kouts) triple, a Hayden Matulich (San Jose, Calif./Pioneer) single, and an Alex Gasbarro (New Lenox, Ill./St. Laurence High School) double.
- Upper Iowa would get across their first and only run of the game in the fifth inning with a Grushkin double.
- The Pride would put the game out of reach in the eighth inning as their patience at the plate would lead to four more runs making it 7-1 going into the ninth.
- Conor Pangburn () who threw five innings for the Pride and recorded 4 strike outs slammed the door in the ninth for the Pride securing the 7-1 victory.
Up Next
- The Pride next travel to Indianapolis, Indiana on Tuesday, March 7th to take on the University of Indianapolis in a double header event. Game one is scheduled to begin at 12:00 PM with Game two scheduled for 3:00 PM or 30 minutes after the conclusion of game one.
