The Pride baseball team slipped at home in GLIAC action to #17 Wayne State to finish the weekend series on Saturday afternoon, 7-3.
The Basics
- Records: Purdue Northwest (6-20, 2-10), #17 Wayne State (24-4,12-1)
- Location: Hammond, Indiana - Laborer's Local 41 Field
- Attendance: 200
The Breakdown
- Freshman Jax Kalemba (Chicago, Ill./Andrean) and junior Brad Miller (Oak Forest, Ill./Oak Forest) each led the Pride with two hits and an RBI.
- Graduate Ray Hilbrich (Schererville, Ind./Lake Central)Â contributed two hits.
- Senior Joe Buikema (Chicago, Ill./Notre Dame College Prep) started on the mound for Purdue Northwest and pitched the first 6.1 innings.
- Van Sicklen led Wayne State with three hits and one RBI.
- Korolden pitched 7.2 innings for the Warriors and struck out three batters.
- Wayne State started the scoring in the second inning with two runs to take a 2-0 lead.
- The Warriors gained a run in the fourth and fifth innings to increase their lead to 4-0.
- In the seventh inning, Wayne State scored three runs to extend the lead, 7-0
- The Pride scored their first run in the seventh inning off a Kalemba RBI double to make the score 7-1.
- Purdue Northwest added two runs in the eighth to make the final score of 7-3.
Up Next
- The Pride next look to defend home field once again when they host Parkside in a GLIAC doubleheader on Tuesday, April 11. Game 1 is slated for 12:00 p.m. central time at Laborer's Local 41 Field.
