2012 Baseball News

Season
Waterman Leads Four Yellow Jackets on All-HCAC Team

GREENWOOD, Ind. – The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference recently unveiled its 2012 All-Conference Team for baseball, with Defiance placing four student-athletes on the list.

May 16, 2012

DC Baseball Completes Sweep of MSJ to End Season

CINCINNATI – Defiance College wrapped up its 2012 baseball season on a positive note, handling Mount St. Joseph by a 5-4 margin to complete a series sweep of the Lions.

May 05, 2012

Jackets Pound Mount St. Joseph in Doubleheader Sweep

CINCINNATI – Defiance College earned its first doubleheader sweep of the season against a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference foe by scoring 23 runs in a pair of victories at Mount St. Joseph on Friday evening.

May 04, 2012

Donese Drives Home Three in Loss to Heidelberg

DEFIANCE, Ohio – Defiance College took its home field for the final time of the 2012 campaign, hosting Heidelberg University on Tuesday afternoon in a non-conference game. The Berg never trailed and held off a ninth-inning rally by the Jackets in the 8-5 contest.

May 01, 2012

DC Baseball Scores 12-Inning Victory at Hanover

HANOVER, Ind. – Defiance outlasted Hanover in Sunday’s series finale, using a five-run outburst in the top of the 12th inning to secure a 12-7 victory in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference contest.

April 29, 2012

Panthers Escape with Two Wins Against Defiance

HANOVER, Ind. – The Defiance College baseball team suffered two more defeats by two runs or fewer, pushing the number of times that has happened this season to 13 with 4-3 and 10-8 setbacks at Hanover on Saturday.

April 28, 2012

Jackets Fade After Fast Start in Rain-Shortened Contest

ADA, Ohio – Defiance waited out a 105 minute rain delay, before jumping out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning of Wednesday’s non-conference tilt at Ohio Northern.

April 25, 2012

Defiance Holds Off Spartans in Thrilling Triumph

N. MANCHESTER, Ind. – Defiance College opened Tuesday’s game at Manchester with five-straight hits and eventually built a 7-0 lead, en route to holding off the Spartans in a dramatic, 10-9, victory.

April 24, 2012

Taylor and Habecker Push DC Past Anderson in Series Finale

DEFIANCE, Ohio – DC’s Jake Taylor allowed just one earned run in eight efficient innings and Andy Habecker delivered a pair of run-scoring singles on Sunday, as the Yellow Jackets handled Anderson by a 4-2 margin in the series finale at Craig A. Rutter Field.

April 22, 2012

Jacket Bats Struggle in Senior Day Defeats to Ravens

DEFIANCE, Ohio – Defiance managed only two runs over 16 innings of Saturday’s doubleheader against Anderson and suffered 2-0 and 8-2 losses against the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference-leading Ravens on Senior Day at Rutter Field.

April 21, 2012

Waterman Delivers Game-Winning Hit at Bluffton

BLUFFTON, Ohio – Darin Waterman laced a run-scoring single in the top of the ninth inning to give Defiance a 5-4 lead at Bluffton on Tuesday and the Jackets held on for the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference victory on the diamond over the Beavers.

April 17, 2012

Jackets Cough Up Eight-Run Lead in Loss at Earlham

RICHMOND, Ind. – Defiance opened a weekend set at Earlham by jumping one of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference’s top-rated pitching staffs for eight runs in the first two innings but could not hold on, as the Quakers stormed back for the 12-9 win on Friday.

April 13, 2012

HCAC Names DC’s Waterman as Pitcher of the Week

GREENWOOD, Ind. – Darin Waterman shut down the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference’s highest scoring offense and helped Defiance score a 2-1 win at Franklin to earn the HCAC’s Pitcher-of-the-Week honor.

April 09, 2012

Spartans Top Defiance in HCAC Showdown at Parkview Field

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Defiance College could not dent the scoreboard until the bottom of the eighth inning and suffered a 9-3 loss to Manchester College at Parkview Field in Fort Wayne, Indiana on Monday evening.

April 09, 2012

Grizzlies Take Weekend Set Over DC with Saturday Victory

FRANKLIN, Ind. – Franklin scored five runs in the third inning to take a 6-2 lead and held off Defiance for the 7-5 victory and a series win against the Yellow Jackets over the weekend at FC’s McDowell Field. The loss was DC’s ninth of the year by two runs or fewer.

April 07, 2012

DC Baseball Scores HCAC Win at Franklin

FRANKLIN, Ind. – Defiance picked up its first conference victory of the season on Friday, scoring an extra-inning win over Franklin with a 2-1 victory in eight innings. The Jackets then fell, 10-2, in the second contest to split the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader.

April 06, 2012