Baseball Drops 4-3 12-Inning Contest At No. 10 Tampa

OVERVIEW – #10 TAMPA

SCORES: No. 10 Tampa Spartans 4, Northwood Timberwolves 3 (12 innings)

RECORDS: Northwood 5-9/Tampa 15-7

LOCATION: Tampa, Fla.

RECAP: Baseball leads late but falls to defending national champion and tenth-ranked Tampa 4-3 in 12 innings Tuesday afternoon (March 10).

GAME HIGHLIGHTS

• Northwood took the lead in the third inning with a pair of runs, starting with an Austin Montas-Burt RBI single that scored Travis Janes.
• Matt Mango made it 2-0 with an RBI single of his own that plated Cole Brooks.
• The Timberwolves then made it 3-0 thanks to a Trevor Polewka RBI single in the top of the fifth inning.
• Tampa got one back in the bottom of the fifth to make the score 3-1.
• The Spartans then tied it up late thanks to a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the eighth.
• Northwood had a runner in scoring position in the ninth, 11th and 12th innings but were unable to plate the go-ahead run.
• Tampa then won it in the 12th thanks to a hit batter, a throwing error on a sacrifice attempt and an RBI single.

GAME STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors Northwood: 3/8/2, Tampa: 4/11/6
• Runners Left on Base: Northwood: 13, Tampa: 10
• Winning Pitcher – Mikey Navarrete (1-0): 1/3 IP
• Losing Pitcher – Peter Joseph (0-1): 4 2/3 IP, 6 H, 3 R (0 ER), BB, K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Noah Fiehn: 5 IP, 4 H, R, BB, 2 K
• Montas-Burt: 2-4, RBI
• Polewka: 2-5, RBI

UP NEXT

• Northwood will travel to Eckerd Thursday (March 12). Game time is set for 6 p.m.