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Nate Arterburn batting against Kent State
7
Case Western CWRU 11-7
14
Winner Kent State KENTST 11-11
Case Western CWRU
11-7
7
Final
14
Kent State KENTST
11-11
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Case Western CWRU 1 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 7 9 2
Kent State KENTST 3 0 1 2 0 0 3 5 X 14 11 1

W: Kolenda,Jordan (1-1) L: McGowan, Austin (0-1) S: Cariaco,Peyton (6)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Spartans Lead Late but Ultimately Fall at DI Kent State

The Case Western Reserve University baseball team held a late lead at Division I Kent State University on Tuesday night in Kent, Ohio, but eight runs in their final two at-bats pushed the Golden Flashes past the Spartans, 14-7.

The loss dropped the Spartans to 11-7 for the campaign while the Golden Flashes improved to 11-11 with the win.

CWRU went back-and-forth with Kent State through the first six and a half innings and took a lead in the top of the sixth when senior left fielder Logan Andreyko delivered a key base hit for the Spartans, singling up the middle with the bases loaded and two outs to drive in a pair of runs and turn a one-run deficit into a 7-6 lead. It capped off a three-run inning for CWRU, which scored earlier when graduate student second baseman Franco Alonso was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and one out.

CWRU remained ahead until the bottom of the seventh when Kent State took the lead on a two-run home run from Dom Kibler and added a run later in the frame to carry a 9-7 advantage into the eighth. The Golden Flashes went on to score five in the eighth to expand their lead to seven runs and Peyton Cariaco retired the Spartans in order in the ninth to close out the game and record his sixth save of the season.

The Spartans led earlier in the contest, recording three straight one-out hits in the top of the first to go ahead 1-0. Senior right fielder Nick Harms and sophomore first baseman Tyler Stillson each singled through the right side of the infield to put runners on first and second with one away. Alonso then drove in the opening run of the game with a single through the left side to give the Spartans a 1-0 lead. Kent State responded in the bottom of the inning, taking a 3-1 lead despite collecting just one hit in the frame, but CWRU answered in the top of the second with a two-out, two-run double from Harms, knotting the score at 3-3.

Kent State regained the lead with a run on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the third but CWRU evened the score again in the top of the fourth when first-year left fielder Mason Nemec worked an eight-pitch at-bat to lead off the inning, eventually battling back from an 0-2 count to draw a walk. He then moved to second on a groundout, to third on a single by sophomore shortstop Nate Arterburn, and scored on a wild pitch to tie the game at 4-4. However, the Golden Flashes answered again with two runs in the bottom of the inning, going back ahead 6-4 and remaining ahead until Andreyko's go-ahead hit in the sixth.

Harms went three-for-five in the game with a double, two runs, and two RBIs. Alonso finished the day two-for-four day at the plate with two RBIs and Arterburn added two hits in four at-bats with a run scored. Seven different CWRU pitchers saw action in the game, including junior Archer Stankowski, who threw a perfect inning and a third with two strikeouts.

Junior Austin McGowan suffered the loss for the Spartans, dropping to 0-1 on the season, while Kent State's Jordan Kolenda earned the win to improve to 1-1.

CWRU will head to St. Louis this weekend to open University Athletic Association play against 24th-ranked Washington University (Mo.). The four-game series is slated to begin on Friday, March 28 at 4:00 p.m. ET.

Spartan Notes

  • With his performance against Kent State, Harms is now leading all Spartans with a .403 batting average, 25 runs, 24 RBIs, and 15 extra-base hits this season.

  • Tuesday's game was the first meeting between the Spartans and the Golden Flashes since the CWRU federation in 1970. Before the federation, the Case Institute of Technology bested Kent State 2-0 during the 1968 campaign.

  • While it was the first meeting between the two teams in over 50 years, CWRU faced a familiar opponent on the mound in Kent State starter Nick Guidas, who is in his first year with the Golden Flashes after previously pitching at Division III Grove City. Guidas, who was a D3baseball.com All-America Fifth Team selection last year, suffered the loss against the Spartans when the two teams faced last season and allowed three runs in his 1.2 innings of work in a no-decision on Tuesday.

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