Baseball Falls To Wayne State 7-4 At GLIAC Tournament

OVERVIEW – WAYNE STATE (GLIAC TOURNAMENT)

SCORES: #2 Wayne State Warriors 7, #3 Northwood Timberwolves 4

RECORDS: Northwood (30-19-1), Wayne State (34-15)

LOCATION: US Steel Yard – Gary, Ind.

RECAP: Baseball drops a 7-4 contest to Wayne State in day two of the GLIAC Baseball tournament Friday night (May 13).

GAME HIGHLIGHTS (NINE INNINGS)

• Northwood started the game strong, plating a run in the first on a Myles Beale RBI single.
• The Warriors responded in the bottom of the first, bringing home three runs for a two-run advantage.
• Northwood leveled the score with a pair of runs in the third, starting with a Jacob Rybicki solo home run to left.
• Beale followed with an RBI double to tie the score at 3-3.
• Wayne State slowly added to the lead over the course of the next few innings, scoring one in the fourth, one in the fifth and two in the eighth to go up 7-3.
• NU got one back in the ninth on a Rybicki sacrifice fly.

GAME STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors: Northwood 4/6/3, Wayne State 7/8/3
• Runners left on base: Northwood 7, Wayne State 13
• Winning Pitcher – Ryan Korolden (8-1): 6 IP, 5 H, 3 R (2 ER), 2 BB, 6 K
• Losing Pitcher – Drew Schultz (7-1): 4 1/3, 6 H, 5 R (3 ER), 4 BB, 4 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Beale: 3-4, 2B, 2 RBIs
• Rybicki: 1-2, HR, 2 BB, 2 RBIs

UP NEXT

• The Timberwolves will play top-seeded Davenport in an elimination game Saturday (May 14). The contest will be played at Purdue Northwest and will start at 3 p.m. (ET)