Baseball Completes Series Sweep With 17-11 Win At Cedarville

OVERVIEW – CEDARVILLE

SCORES: Northwood Timberwolves 17, Cedarville Yellow Jackets 11

RECORDS: Northwood 13-9, Cedarville 7-12

LOCATION: Cedarville, Ohio

RECAP: Northwood baseball's offense comes alive late in a 17-11 win at Cedarville Friday (March 18) as the Timberwolves complete at three-game sweep.

GAME HIGHLIGHTS (NINE INNINGS)

• Cedarville plated two runs in the opening inning to take a 2-0
• Northwood got on the board in the fourth inning thanks to Alex Cole coming home on a wild pitch.
• With the score 2-1 in the top of the six, what had been a low-scoring game flipped. Northwood tied the game at 2-2 with an RBI double by Cole.
• The Yellow Jackets plated two runs in the bottom of the seventh to go back up 4-2
• Northwood put up four runs in the seventh inning, which got started with a David Jeffers RBI single.
• Khale Showers followed with a sacrifice fly to tie the game 4-4.
• Rhett Evans gave Northwood its first lead of the day with an RBI double that made the score 5-4.
• Cole came through with another RBI, giving the Timberwolves a 6-4 lead with an RBI single.
• Cedarville tied the game in the bottom of the seventh with two runs to send the game to the seventh with the score 6-6.
• The key inning of the game proved to be the eighth, when Northwood broke the game open with nine runs. Jeffers started the big inning with an RBI single.
• Myles Beale brought home a run with a bases-loaded walk, which was followed by an Evans RBI single that made the score 9-6.
• Cole continued his big day with a three-run double that pushed the advantage to 12-6.
• NU rounded out the nine-run inning with a three-run error by the Yellow Jackets that made the score 15-6.
• Cedarville did not go away, responding with a four-run inning of their own to send the game to the ninth with the Timberwolves leading 15-10.
• Northwood added two more runs in the ninth thanks to an RBI double from Blake Salamon and another RBI single from Alex Cole
• The Yellow Jackets scored one in the ninth to make the final 17-11.

GAME STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors – Northwood: 17/18/5, Cedarville: 11/17/2
• Runners Left on Base – Northwood: 10, Cedarville: 12
• Winning Pitcher – Benji Alderson (1-1): 1 1/3, H, 2 R (0 ER)
• Losing Pitcher – Reid Hale (1-3): 2/3 IP, 4 H, 7 R (6 ER), 3 BB, 2 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Cole: 5-5, 2 2B, 2 R, 6 RBIs
• Evans: 4-6, 2 2B, 3 R, 2 RBIs
• Jeffers: 2-6, 2 R, 2 RBIs
• Magno: 4-5, 3 R
• Jayden Dentler: 5 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 K

UP NEXT

• Northwood travels to Davenport to open conference play Friday (March 25). First pitch is set for 4 p.m.