Baseball rallies before suffering 10-inning loss to Anderson
DEFIANCE, Ohio – Playing a single game rather than a doubleheader for the first time this season, the Defiance College baseball team came back from a 7-0 deficit before suffering a 13-12 loss in 10 innings to the visiting Anderson University Ravens in a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference matchup at Craig A. Rutter Field on Wednesday. It was the third one-run contest in the last five days between the two squads.
| Final (10) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E |
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Anderson (Ind.)
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0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 16 | 3 |
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Defiance
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 2 |
DEFIANCE, Ohio – Playing a single game rather than a doubleheader for the first time this season, the Defiance College baseball team came back from a 7-0 deficit before suffering a 13-12 loss in 10 innings to the visiting Anderson University Ravens in a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference matchup at Craig A. Rutter Field on Wednesday. It was the third one-run contest in the last five days between the two squads.
Anderson scored twice in the fourth inning, three times in the fifth and two runs in the sixth before Defiance tallied five runs in the seventh. The Yellow Jackets put together a six-run eighth to lead, 11-7, but the Ravens answered with four runs in the ninth to tie the contest. In the 10th, AU picked up a pair of runs before the hosts got a run back and had the bases loaded when the final out was recorded.
The game lasted three hours and 45 minutes, and there were 26 hits, including 16 by Anderson. The Ravens made three of the contest's five errors and each team walked 12 times. The guests left 15 runners on base and DC 14.
Nate Kaffenbarger led the Defiance offense by going 3 for 6 with a grand slam, triple, double, six runs batted in and two runs scored. Michael Reese finished 1 for 3 with a solo homer, walk and two RBIs while Josh Vischer drove in three runs with a two-run single and bases-loaded walk.
The Jackets used eight pitchers with starter Lane Good tossing two innings, yielding no runs with two strikeouts. Kendall Duval threw a scoreless seventh inning before freshman Jeremy Russo took the loss after working the 10th.
DC falls to 4-11 overall and in HCAC play while Anderson moves to 10-6. Defiance is slated to host a conference doubleheader with Earlham College this Friday at 1 p.m.
