FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Indiana Tech baseball team dropped a pair of games to University of Northwestern Ohio on Saturday afternoon at Warrior Field, falling 11-2 in game one before losing 13-4 in the nightcap.
Tighe Koehring went 1-4 with an RBI in the first game while Dante Biagini and
Charlie Sipe each collected a pair of hits. Biagini would score both the Warriors runs.
Jared Harvey took the loss after pitching five innings and allowing five runs, all earned, on six hits and four walks while striking out six.
After being deadlocked through the first three innings, the Racers would homer in the fourth and fifth innings to knock Harvey out of the game after going ahead 5-1. Koehring would drive in Biagini in the bottom of the fifth with a single to right field, but the Orange and Black were unable to capitalize anymore in the inning after leading the bases loaded.
Junior Gomez would hit his second homer of the game in the seventh, a three-run shot onto Anthony Blvd., to put the visitors up 8-2 while UNOH tacked on three more runs in the last two innings to take game one of the series.
Branson Dossen would go 2-3 with a home run in game two, while
Charlie Sipe launched his first homer in the nightcap. Koehring would add two more hits while
Benny Clark III and
Glen McClain scored for Tech.
The Racers would jump all over starter
Cody Kellar in the first two innings, scoring four times in the first and then adding three more in the second to chase the senior right-hander. UNOH would rattle of six consecutive hits to open the game, including two doubles and a homer while using a pair of walks and three hits in the second to go up 7-1.
Sipe and Dossen would both homer on the first pitch they saw in the in the first and second, respectively, to chip into the Racers lead, but the visitors would six runs in the last four innings off Tech's bullpen while taking advantage of four Warrior errors, to complete the sweep.
Tech (5-3, 5-3 WHAC) concludes their series with UNOH as well as their fall schedule on Sunday with a single-nine inning contest. First pitch is schedule for 1 p.m. from Warrior Field and links to live stats and video will be available at IndianaTechWarriors.com.
