Baseball Opens G-MAC Tournament With 3-2 Loss To Tiffin

OVERVIEW – TIFFIN

SCORES: #7 Tiffin Dragons 3, #2 Northwood Timberwolves 2

RECORDS: Northwood (30-20), Tiffin (23-25)

LOCATION: Prasco Park – Mason, Ohio

RECAP: Second-seeded Northwood baseball opened play at the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Tournament with a 3-2 loss against Tiffin Wednesday afternoon (May 8).

GAME HIGHLIGHTS

• The game was scoreless in the top of the fourth when Tiffin got on the board with a solo home run.
• The score remained 1-0 until the sixth when Northwood put a pair of runs on the board, starting with an RBI double by Blake Salamon.
• Drew Charters followed with an RBI double of his own to put the Timberwolves on top for the first time on the day 2-1.
• Tiffin responded in the top of the eighth, scoring two runs on three hits to go up 3-2.
• Missed chances proved costly for the Timberwolves in the game, as Northwood had a total of five runners in scoring position with less than two outs that did not score.

GAME ONE STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors: Northwood 2/8/0, Tiffin 3/8/0
• Runners left on base: Northwood 8, Tiffin 7
• Winning Pitcher – Zach Johnson (4-1):  2 IP, 4 H, 2 R, K
• Losing Pitcher – Jake Jekielek (5-2): 2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, BB, K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Voth: 2-5, 2B
• Salamon: 1-3, 2B, R, RBI
• Charters: 2B, RBI
• Tyler Sager: 7 IP, 5 H, R, 2 BB, 3 K

UP NEXT

• Northwood will face Ohio Dominican in an elimination game Thursday (May 9) at 11:15 a.m.