Baseball Goes 1-1 At Davenport

OVERVIEW – DAVENPORT

SCORES: Northwood Timberwolves 6, Davenport Panthers 0/Davenport 17, Northwood 16

RECORDS: Northwood 14-10, 1-1 GLIAC / Davenport 11-14, 1-1 GLIAC

LOCATION: Davenport, Ohio

RECAP: Northwood baseball splits a doubleheader at Davenport Friday (March 25, taking game one 6-0 before dropping a wild 17-16 contest in game two.

GAME ONE HIGHLIGHTS (SEVEN INNINGS)

• Northwood got on the board in the second on a sacrifice fly in the second from Joey Johnston to put NU on top 1-0.
• Rhett Evans gave the Timberwolves a 2-0 lead in the top of the fourth on a run-scoring double.
• Myles Beale earned an RBI on an error in the sixth that pushed the Northwood lead to 3-0.
• Johnston followed in the sixth with a two-run single that pushed the advantage to 5-0.
• Evans rounded out the scoring with a seventh-inning sac fly to make the final 6-0.
• Derek Clark tossed his GLIAC-leading fourth complete game and his first career complete game shutout in the win.

GAME TWO STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors – Northwood: 6/7/1, Davenport: 0/4/3
• Runners Left on Base – Northwood: 7, Davenport: 6
• Winning Pitcher – Derek Clark (3-1): 7 IP, 4 H, BB, 7 K
• Losing Pitcher – Derrick Edington (1-3): 5 IP, 3 H, 5 R (3 ER), BB, 6 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Beale: 2-4, 2B, 2 R, RBI
• Magno: 2-4, 3B, 2 R
• Johnston: 1-2, 3 RBIs
• Evans: 1-2, 2B, 2 RBIs

GAME TWO HIGHLIGHTS (NINE INNINGS)

• Davenport got going in the bottom of the second with a grand slam to take a 4-0 lead.
• Northwood cut the lead in half in the third with a two-run single by Jacob Rybicki.
• Magno got NU within one in the third inning with a solo homer that made the score 4-3.
• DU got one back in the fourth, sending the game to the fifth with the score 5-3.
• The Timberwolves came up with a big fifth inning to take the lead, which got going with a Magno RBI single.
• Northwood tied the game on a Khale Showers double that made the score 5-5.
• After an Evans RBI fielder's choice, Blake Salamon pushed the NU lead to 7-5 with an RBI single.
• Ben Clark finished off the six-run fifth inning with a two-run double that made the score 9-5.
• The Panthers responded with one in the fifth and three in the sixth to tie the score at 9-9.
• NU came right back in the top of the seventh with three runs, two of which came home on a two-run error.
• A sac fly by Ben Clark put the Timberwolves on top 12-9 heading to the bottom of the seventh.
• Once again, Davenport came right back in the bottom of the seventh with three runs of their own to level the score at 12.
• Northwood responded once again in the top of the eighth with two runs, thanks to an RBI double from Showers and an RBI single from Beale.
• Davenport came right back in the bottom of the eighth, bringing home five runs to take a 17-14 lead.
• The Timberwolves did not go away quietly, as Showers brought home two runs to get NU within one at 17-16.
• NU had the tying run on third and the go-ahead run on first with one out, but were unable to plate the tying rn.

GAME TWO STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors – Northwood: 16/14/2, Davenport: 17/16/2
• Runners Left on Base – Northwood: 8, Davenport: 11
• Winning Pitcher – Spencer Vainavicz (2-1): IP, 2 H, 2 K
• Losing Pitcher – Hunter McShane (0-1): 1/3 IP, 2 H, 3 R, BB
• Save – Ricky Clark (1): IP, H, 2 R (1 ER), 2 BB, K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Showers: 3-6, 2 2B, 2 R, 4 RBIs
• Magno: 3-4, 2B, HR, 3 R, 2 RBIs
• Ben Clark: 2-2, 2B, 2 R, 3 RBIs
• Rybicki: H, R, 2 RBIs

UP NEXT

• Northwood and Davenport will play a nine-inning game Saturday (March 26). Game time is set for 1 p.m.