Baseball Drops 6-3 NCAA Regional Contest At Quincy

OVERVIEW –  QUINCY (NCAA MIDWEST REGIONAL TOURNAMENT)

SCORES: No. 1 Quincy Hawks 6, No. 5 Northwood Timberwolves 3

RECORDS: Northwood (42-18), Quincy (46-9)

LOCATION: QU Stadium – Quincy, Ill.

RECAP:  Missed scoring opportunities prove costly in baseball's 6-3 loss at Quincy in second game for both teams at the NCAA Midwest Regional Friday afternoon (May 19).

GAME HIGHLIGHTS (NINE INNINGS)

• The game was scoreless in the bottom of the fourth when Northwood broke through. After a Rhett Evans triple, Alex Cole put the Timberwolves on the board with an RBI single.
• The score remained 1-0 until the sixth when Quincy got a run-scoring double and a two-run homer to go up 3-1.
• QU then got a two-run homer in the seventh and a solo shot in the eighth to push their lead to 6-1.
• Northwood plated a pair in the ninth, starting with a Myles Beale triple that scored Joey Johnston.
• Matt Magno capped the scoring with a run-scoring single to bring home Beale.
• The key to the game was missed scoring opportunities for the Timberwolves, particularly early in the game. NU had runners on second and third with nobody out in both the first and third innings and came away with zero runs. In all, the Timberwolves had a total of seven base runners in scoring position with less than two outs that did not score in the game.

GAME STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors: Northwood 3/11/0, Quincy 6/7/0
• Runners left on base: Northwood 10, Quincy 3
• Winning Pitcher: Griffin Kirn (7-1) –  7 IP, 9 H, R, 2 BB, 6 K
• Losing Pitcher: Zach Abbey (5-1) – 6 1/3 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 3 BB,  5 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Magno: 3-5, 2B, RBI
• Beale: 2-3, 3B, R, RBI, 2 BB
• Evans: 2-4, 2B, 3B, R
• Jacob Rybicki: 2-5, 2B

NORTHWOOD NOTES

• Northwood pitchers have now struck out 443 batters this season, the most in a season in program history.  The old record was 434, set in the 2018 season.
• Quincy has now hit 128 home runs as a team this season, the most in the country and the third most in the history of Division II baseball. The all-time record for homers in a year is 131 set by West Georgia in 1998.

UP NEXT

• Northwood and Quincy will play once again Saturday (May 19) starting at 1 p.m. (Eastern time).  If Northwood wins that game, the two teams will play a final deciding game to see you advances to the NCAA Super Regionals next week.