PNW Athletics
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Purdue Northwest PNW 5-8
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Winner Eckerd EC 17-5
Purdue Northwest PNW
5-8
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Final
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Eckerd EC
17-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Purdue Northwest PNW 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 2
Eckerd EC 1 0 0 4 0 1 0 2 X 8 10 2

W: Xavier Brown (1-0) L: Burton, Preston (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Falls at Eckerd in Midweek Matchup, 8-1

This Wednesday the Pride baseball team faced off against Eckerd College once again in a non-conference matchup, where the Pride fell 8-1.

The Basics
  • Records: Purdue Northwest (5-8), Eckerd (17-5)
  • Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
  • Non-conference game.
The Breakdown
  • Nathan Koster (Mount Pleasant, Mich./Mount Pleasant) paced the Pride offensively, finishing 1-for-3 with a walk and scoring the team's lone run.
  • Owen Winters (Kouts, Ind./Kouts) added a double as part of a 1-for-4 performance, while Drew Kosteba (St. John, Ind./Lake Central) and Zach Wright (Munster, Ind./Munster) each contributed a hit. Braylon Holland (Hobart, Ind./Andrean) drove in the only run of the game with a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning, as Purdue Northwest was limited to four hits overall.
  • Preston Burton (Sellersburg, Ind./Silver Creek) got the start on the mound, allowing three runs on six hits over 3.2 innings. Dylan McGee (Oswego, Ill./Oswego) followed out of the bullpen and struck out three over 1.1 innings, while Joey DalPonte (Homer Glen, Ill./Lockport) added another inning of work. Jacob Chajet (Mundelein, Ill./Carmel Catholic) delivered a scoreless frame, and Dylan Wireman (Wheatfield, Ind./Kankakee Valley) and Dylan Letke (Fremont, Calif./Washington) handled the late innings in relief.
  • Eckerd struck first in the opening inning with an RBI double to take an early 1-0 lead. After a pair of scoreless innings, Eckerd created separation in the fourth, using a string of timely hits highlighted by a bases-clearing double to score four runs and extend the lead to 5-0.
  • The Pride generated traffic on the bases in the middle innings, but were unable to come through with a key hit to shift momentum. Eckerd added another run in the sixth to make it 6-0.
  • Purdue Northwest broke through in the seventh inning as Koster reached base and eventually came around to score on Holland's sacrifice fly, cutting the deficit to 6-1.
  • Eckerd answered in the eighth, capitalizing on defensive miscues and timely execution to plate two more runs and push the lead to 8-1.
  • The Pride were unable to mount a comeback in the ninth as Eckerd closed out the victory.
Up Next
The Pride will return to action on March 20th as they return home to take on Saginaw Valley State University to open up GLIAC Conference play at 3:00 PM CT.
 
 
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