Baseball Defeats Lindenwood 7-5 At NCAA Midwest Regional

OVERVIEW – LINDENWOOD (NCAA TOURNAMENT)

SCORES: #6 Northwood Timberwolves 7, #4 Lindenwood Lions 5

RECORDS: Northwood 29-16, Lindenwood 34-9

LOCATION: Lou Brock Sports Complex – St. Charles, Mo. (Lindenwood University)  

RECAP: Sixth-seeded baseball stays alive at the NCAA Midwest Regional by eliminating No. 4 seed and host Lindenwood 7-5 Saturday (May 29).

GAME HIGHLIGHTS

• Northwood started fast in the first inning, plating a pair of runs. David Jeffers got Northwood on the board with an RBI single to score Jacob Rybicki, who led the game off with a double.
• Later in the inning, Matt Magno brought home Jeffers on a sacrifice fly to make the score 2-0.
• Lindenwood came right back with three runs in the bottom of the first to go up 3-2.
• The Timberwolves came right back in the top of the second, starting with an RBI single by Khale Showers to score Rhett Evans
• Rybicki then gave Northwood back the lead at 4-3 with an RBI single.
• The Lions scored single runs in the fourth and the fifth to go back on top 5-4.
• NU tied the score in the top of the sixth on a Rhett Evans RBI single.
• Northwood then took the lead in the seventh thanks to a sacrifice fly by Cole Brooks.
• Later in the seventh, Magno followed with a run-scoring double to get the lead up to two at 7-5.
• Lindenwood got runners on base in both the eight and the ninth innings, but Derek Clark held the Lions off the scoreboard to give the Timberwolves the win.

GAME STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors: Lindenwood 16/16/0, Northwood 1/6/1
• Runners left on base: Lindenwood 9, Northwood5
• Winning Pitcher – Logan Lee (7-2): 7 IP, 8 H, 5 R (4 ER), 2 BB, 6 K
• Losing Pitcher – Niko Marshall (5-2): 5 IP, 4 H, 3 R, BB, 2 K
• Save – Derek Clark (2): 2 IP, H, BB, K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Magno: 2-3, 2 2B, R, 2 RBIs
• Rybicki: 2-3, 2B, 2 R, RBI
• Jeffers: 2-5, 2B, 2 R, RBI
• Showers: 2-4, RBI

UP NEXT

• Northwood will now play second-seeded Trevecca Nazarene later tonight (May 29) at 8 p.m. (ET). The winner of that game will advance to the regional finals.