Baseball Opens Season With Doubleheader Sweep At Indianapolis

OVERVIEW – INDIANAPOLIS

SCORES: Northwood Timberwolves 8, Indianapolis Greyhounds 2/Northwood 5 - Indianapolis 2

RECORDS: Northwood 1-0, Indianapolis 1-3

LOCATION: Bishop Chatard High School – Indianapolis, Ind.

RECAP: Northwood opens 2021 season with a doubleheader sweep at Indianapolis Saturday afternoon (February 27), taking game one 8-2 and game two 5-2.

GAME ONE HIGHLIGHTS

• Northwood wasted little time getting on the board in the first inning, as No. 2 hitter Rhett Evans hit a solo homer to left to give NU a 1-0 lead.
• The Timberwolves extended their lead in the second thanks to a two-run homer by Jacob Rybicki that plated Matt Magno and made the score 3-0.
• NU's offense kept rolling in the third inning, pushing the advantage to 4-0 on a Matt Magno sacrifice fly.
• Rybicki then drove in his third run of the day on an RBI single, which was followed by a two-run single by David Jeffers that made the score 7-0 in the third.
• The Greyhounds pushed across a pair of runs in the fifth to cut into the NU lead.
• The score remained 8-2 until the ninth inning when Northwood added an insurance run thanks to a Carson Longstreth RBI double.

GAME ONE STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors Northwood: 8/10/0, Indianapolis: 2/4/0
• Runners Left on Base: Northwood: 4, Indianapolis: 7
• Winning Pitcher: Drew Schultz (1-0): 7 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 3 BB, 5 K
• Losing Pitcher: Corey Bates (0-2): 5 IP, 7 H, 7 R, 3 BB, 4 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Rybicki: 3-4, HR, 2 R, 3 RBIs
• Longstreth: 2-5, R, RBI
• Evans: HR
• Jeffers: 1-3, R, 2 RBIs
• Hunter McShane: 2 IP, BB

GAME TWO HIGHLIGHTS

• Northwood got on the board first once again right away thanks to a Cole Brooks RBI single to put NU up 1-0.
• The Timberwolves extended their lead in the third, starting with Rhett Evans' second home run of the day.
• Khale Showers added a two-run homer of his own in the third to make the score 4-0
• UINDY scored one in the bottom of the third and one in the fourth to cut the lead to 4-2.
• NU scored an insurance run on a wild pitch in the eighth to get the advantage back to three at 5-2.
• That proved to be the final run of the day, giving Northwood the sweep.

GAME TWO STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors Northwood: 5/12/1, Indianapolis: 2/5/0
• Runners Left on Base: Northwood: 10, Indianapolis: 8
• Winning Pitcher: Logan Lee (1-0): 7 2/3 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 4 BB, 5 K
• Losing Pitcher: Reid Werner (1-1): 6 1/3 IP, 9 H, 4 R, BB, 5 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Brooks: 3-4, R, RBI
• Evans: 2-4, HR, RBI, 2 R
• Showers: 2-5, HR, 2 RBIs
• Jake Carroll: 1 1/3 IP, 2 BB, 2 K

UP NEXT

• Northwood and Indianapolis will finish their weekend series with a single game Sunday (February 28). Game time is set for Noon.