Baseball edged by Manchester in conference contests
DEFIANCE, Ohio – On Defiance High School’s turf field, the Defiance College baseball team hosted the Manchester University Spartans on Sunday afternoon in a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader. Defiance was edged by scores of 5-3 and 5-4.
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Manchester (Ind.)
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0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
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Defiance
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Manchester (Ind.)
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0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
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Defiance
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0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
DEFIANCE, Ohio – On Defiance High School's turf field, the Defiance College baseball team hosted the Manchester University Spartans on Sunday afternoon in a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader. Defiance was edged by scores of 5-3 and 5-4.
The Yellow Jackets struck first in the opener, scoring twice in the second inning before Manchester sliced its deficit in half in the fourth. DC went on top, 3-1, in the fifth inning but the Spartans answered with a four-run sixth to conclude the scoring.
MU had nine hits to Defiance's five and made two of the game's three errors. The guests tallied two doubles and a triple while all of the Yellow Jackets' hits were singles.
Offensively for DC, Lucas Thomeier was 1 for 3 with a walk, run scored and run batted in. Nate Kaffenbarger also posted a hit in three at-bats with a walk and an RBI.
Starting pitcher Cohen Nies took the loss for Defiance after striking out 10 with just one walk over seven innings. Will Bohlman tossed two scoreless innings in relief, allowing only one hit and no bases on balls with one strikeout.
In the second contest, Manchester scored three times in the fourth inning and one run in each of the fifth and sixth, building a 5-0 lead. The Yellow Jackets pulled to within 5-3 in the seventh inning and then scored once in the ninth, but left the tying run on third base.
The Spartans outhit DC by an 11-8 margin and committed the game's lone error. Defiance left 11 runners on base, including five over the final three innings.
For the Yellow Jackets, Brant Richardson finished 2 for 3 with a walk and run scored while Josh Vischer went 1 for 2 with three bases on balls and two runs scored. Colin Minner tripled in a run while Kaffenbarger stroked a two-run single.
Lane Good got the start on the mound for DC and suffered the loss after going four innings with three strikeouts. Kendall Duval threw two shutout innings before Jack Powell worked a perfect ninth.
Defiance is 6-25 overall and in the HCAC while MU moves to 15-16. The Jackets are slated to play a conference doubleheader at Anderson University on Saturday with game one set for 1 p.m.