INDIANOLA, Iowa – Baseball snapped its six game losing streak today with a 4-2 win over Simpson in extra innings on Saturday, Apr. 15. The Knights are now 9-15 overall and 4-11 in American Rivers Conference play.
Game Summary
- Wartburg got on the board first in this game after a Zach Wesolowski double down the left field line scored Keaton Gray to make the score 1-0
- After two scoreless innings, Simpson was able to bring across two runs to take a 2-1 lead after three innings
- The Knights responded in the fourth inning when Eliot Jurgensen brought Zach Walton home with an RBI single that tied the game at two
- The score remained 2-2 through six innings and Knights starting pitcher Cael Boehmer recorded seven strikeouts through those six innings
- Malcolm Newell took the mound for the Knights in the eighth and escaped a bases loaded jam with a strikeout to take the game to the ninth inning 2-2
- Neither team was able to bring any runs across in the ninth and the game headed to extra innings
- Wiley Sullivan singled to lead off the 10th and was scored when Walton was walked with the bases loaded
- The Knights added another run to make it 4-2 after Wesolowski hit a sacrifice fly
- Will Armstrong closed the game on the mound to give the Knights a 4-2 win
Top Performers
- Wesolowski
- Boehmer
- Seven innings pitched
- Eight strikeouts
- Two runs allowed
- One batter walked
- Gray
Notes/Streaks
- Knights are 94-60 all-time against Simpson no
- Avoids what would have been first sweep by Simpson since 1999
- Third extra inning game this season
- Knights 3-0 in those games
- Snaps six-game losing streak
- Jurgensen extended his reached base streak to 21 games today
- Gray now has an active hitting streak of 10 games
- Armstrong now 2-1 on the mound this season
Next Time Out
The Knights will be back in action on Saturday and Sunday, Apr. 22-23 for a three-game series on the road against the University of Dubuque.
