Yellow Jackets fall to Lourdes on the road

TOLEDO, Ohio - The Defiance College Baseball team fell to Lourdes University 12-2 Wednesday night in a midweek non-conference game.

The Yellow Jackets (7-17) fell behind early on and were unable to recover against the Toledo-area based school.

Lourdes capitalized on four hits and a Defiance error in the first inning to go ahead 4-0, and the Yellow Jackets were unable to recover.

After Lourdes scored another run in the bottom of the second to go up 5-0, Defiance scored its first of two runs on the night. Ben Weber had a single to right field that scored Aaron Helland from third base.

Defiance had a chance to add more runs in the third inning, but stranded a pair of runners in scoring position. Defiance also stranded two runners in scoring position in the top of the first.

In the fourth inning, control issues plagued Defiance pitching as Lourdes scored a run on a bases loaded walk, the third of the inning.

Defiance scored the run back in the fifth inning when Ryan Kohlhofer had an infield single to the hole at shortstop, allowing Chris Donese to take home from third base.

That was the closest DC could reel in Lourdes as the home team used a two-run home run and a two-RBI single to put up four runs in the bottom half of the inning.

Lourdes added two more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning with an RBI triple followed by an RBI single to go up 12-2 and put the run rule in place.

Defiance failed to score in the top of the seventh, ending the game.

Drew Miller (0-1) picked up the loss for Defiance.

Kohlhofer and Darin Waterman were the only two Yellow Jackets to record multiple hits in the game, combining for four of DC's seven hits.

The Yellow Jackets will look to rebound on Friday with the first of three games against Anderson this weekend. First pitch is scheduled for 4:15 p.m. at Rutter Field and the game will be broadcast on the Yellow Jackets Sports Network.