On Saturday, the Purdue Northwest baseball team took on Roosevelt University in a tightly contested GLIAC matchup at Ozinga Field. Despite a late-inning push and 11 total hits, the Pride came up short in a 7-6 loss.

The Basics

• Records: Purdue Northwest (15-18), Roosevelt (10-30)
• Location: Crestwood, Illinois
• GLIAC conference game

 
The Breakdown

• Jayden Smith (Allegan, Mich./Allegan) led the Pride offensively with two hits, two runs scored, and an RBI, including a triple in the second inning.
• Jax Kalemba (Chicago, Ill./Andrean) added two hits and an RBI, delivering a key run-scoring single in the sixth.
• Drake Ballard (Louisville, Ky./Martha Laynes Collins) and Owen Bendis (St. John, Ind./Lake Central) each chipped in an RBI single in the second.
• Joey Guiliano (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield North) and Cole Olson (Stanton, Mich./Central Montcalm) also contributed with RBIs during the Pride's three-run eighth-inning rally.
• AJ Reid (Highland, Ind./Highland) started on the mound, allowing four earned runs over 4.2 innings with four strikeouts and took the loss (0-1).
• Owen Walkowiak (Crown Point, Ind./Andrean), Ethan Knopf (Crown Point, Ind./Lake Central), Nick Mangano (Glenwood, Ill./Marian Catholic), and Eric Beck (Manteno, Ill/Manteno) pitched in relief.
• Jack Hoh led Roosevelt with a two-RBI single in the fifth inning, while Jace Berry tripled and drove in two. Kaito Ogawa added an RBI triple.
• Jared Glickman earned the win for Roosevelt (2-4), going five innings and allowing two unearned runs. Kade Schroer recorded the save, stranding the tying run in the ninth.
• The Pride took an early 2-0 lead in the second inning behind RBI singles from Smith and Bendis, both capitalizing on Roosevelt defensive miscues.
• Roosevelt responded in the fifth with a four-run outburst, highlighted by Hoh's two-run single, followed by back-to-back triples from Berry and Ogawa to give the Lakers a 4-2 advantage.
• Kalemba brought the Pride within one in the sixth with a sharp RBI single to right, but Roosevelt answered in the seventh with three more runs, including an RBI single from Berry and a bases-loaded walk drawn by Casillas.
• Purdue Northwest made one final push in the eighth, scoring three runs on RBI from Olson, Ballard, and Guiliano to make it 7-6. But that would be as close as they'd get, as the Roosevelt bullpen closed the door in the ninth.
• Despite outhitting Roosevelt 11-8, the Pride couldn't overcome timely Laker hitting and a few key defensive miscues.

 
Up Next:
The Pride will return to action on Tuesday, April 22, at Dowling Park for a doubleheader against the University of Indianapolis starting at 1:00 PM CT.