2011 Baseball News
Defiance Adds Six to HCAC’s Spring Sportsmanship Team
GREENWOOD, Ind. – The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference announced its 2011 All-Sportsmanship Team for the spring seasons on Wednesday. The award is part of the league-wide initiative to promote good sportsmanship.
May 18, 2011
DC Raises Number of Academic All-HCAC Nods to 38
GREENWOOD, Ind. – The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference announced its spring honorees for the Tom Bohlsen Academic All-HCAC Team on Tuesday, with Defiance placing 11 student-athletes on the list to bring its 2010-2011 total up to 38.
May 17, 2011
Riley, Leskow and Waterman Named All-HCAC
GREENWOOD, Ind. – The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference announced its 2011 Baseball All-HCAC Squad on Tuesday, with Defiance putting David Riley, Stephen Leskow and Darin Waterman on the Honorable Mention All-HCAC Team.
May 17, 2011
DC Baseball Wraps Up 2011 Campaign
DEFIANCE, Ohio – The Defiance College baseball program saw its 2011 season come to an end on Saturday, with a doubleheader at Craig A. Rutter Field against Mount St. Joseph. The Jackets fell 8-3 and 12-0 to finish the year.
May 07, 2011
Lehman Plates Three to Propel Jackets Past MSJ
DEFIANCE, Ohio – The Yellow Jackets plated three runs in the sixth inning to break open a 3-3 tie and Andy Habecker held Mount St. Joseph scoreless over the final three frames to preserve a 6-3 victory for DC in Friday’s series opener at Craig A. Rutter Field.
May 06, 2011
Defiance Closes Weekend Set with Grizzlies
DEFIANCE, Ohio – The Yellow Jackets could not slow the Franklin College lineup on Saturday, as the Grizzlies scored 23 runs on 30 hits in a doubleheader sweep over Defiance. Franklin held the Jackets to just two hits in a 9-0 victory in the opener, before taking a 14-2 win to finish the sweep.
April 30, 2011
Jackets Fall in Extra Innings to Franklin in Series Opener
DEFIANCE, Ohio – Franklin plated five runs in the final two frames to edge Defiance in 10 innings by an 8-6 margin at Craig A. Rutter Field on Friday afternoon. The Jackets held a 5-3 lead entering the ninth inning but could not record the final three outs with the lead intact.
April 29, 2011
Kremer Blasts First Career Dinger in Loss at Bluffton
BLUFFTON, Ohio – Freshman Brad Kremer launched a two-run home run in the top of the first inning on Tuesday to give the Yellow Jackets a 3-0 lead but Bluffton answered by clearing the fences six times en route to handing Defiance a 19-5 defeat.
April 26, 2011
Game One Goes Final, Games Two and Three Cancelled
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Defiance was hit with an abbreviated loss on Saturday morning, when inclement weather prevented DC and Transylvania from resuming a game that was called in the seventh inning on Friday night. Saturday’s doubleheader between the two squads never got underway, and has been cancelled.
April 22, 2011
Seven-Run Eighth Inning Propels Beavers Past Defiance
DEFIANCE, Ohio – Stephen Leskow held a powerful Bluffton lineup scoreless through his first seven innings of work on Thursday afternoon at Rutter Field, but the Beavers broke through with a seven-run rally in the eighth to take a 7-2 win over DC in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tilt.
April 21, 2011
Ravens Slug Past DC on the Diamond
ANDERSON, Ind. – Anderson used a six-run rally in the fourth inning to erase a 2-0 DC lead and went on to sweep the weekend series over the Yellow Jackets with a 22-8 victory in Sunday’s series finale.
April 17, 2011
Anderson Takes Pair Against Yellow Jackets
ANDERSON, Ind. – Defiance College was four outs from a series-opening victory on Saturday at Anderson but saw the host Ravens rally for a 7-5 victory in game one, before shutting out the Jackets, 14-0, in the second game of the doubleheader.
April 16, 2011
Jackets Let Early Lead Slip Away to Manchester
DEFIANCE, Ohio – Bobby Pardun and Brent James laced two-out singles in the bottom of the first inning to push Defiance to a 2-1 lead against Manchester on Tuesday afternoon but the Spartans rallied for the 11-3 conference win at Rutter Field.
April 12, 2011
Quakers Use Two-Out Rallies to Top Defiance
DEFIANCE, Ohio – Earlham College plated all seven of its runs with two outs on Sunday afternoon, using a series of clutch hits to score a 7-2 victory over the Yellow Jackets at Craig A. Rutter Field.
April 10, 2011
Defiance Bats Falter in Pair of Losses to Earlham
DEFIANCE, Ohio – Defiance College suffered a pair of losses against Earlham College on Saturday at Craig A. Rutter Field. The Yellow Jacket offense could not solve the league’s top-rated pitching staff, producing just four runs and 11 hits on the afternoon.
April 09, 2011
Yellow Jackets Rebound for 6-5 Win at Adrian
ADRIAN, Mich. – Defiance College overcame an early four-run deficit at Adrian College on Wednesday evening to score a 6-5 victory over the Bulldogs. The non-conference win snapped a five-game slide for the Yellow Jackets.
April 06, 2011