WAVERLY, Iowa – Baseball closed its three-game series against Buena Vista University on Saturday, Apr. 8 with a 5-4 game one loss and then a 13-3 loss in game two in eight innings. The Knights are now 8-12 overall and move to 3-8 in American Rivers Conference play.
 
Game Summary

• Game One
  • After a 1-2-3 top of the first, Keaton Gray doubled to leadoff the for the Knights and was eventually scored by Zach Walton to take an early 1-0 lead after one inning
  • BVU answered in the top of the second inning with three straight hits, including a double, to take a 2-1 lead after two innings
  • Caleb Andrews led the third inning off with a walk and then Zach Wesolowski crushed a home run to right-center field to put the Knights back on top 3-2 after three innings
  • Will Armstrong led the fourth inning off with a triple, but the Knights left three runners stranded as BVU got out of the jam with no runs given up
  • Neither team was able to put up any runs in the fifth, sixth, or seventh inning and the score remained 3-2 Wartburg heading to the eighth inning
    • Wartburg's last hit came in the fourth inning and BVU's came in the fifth
  • The Beavers got the eighth inning started with three hits, including an RBI single and RBI triple that put BVU up 4-3
  • The Knights answered with a leadoff double from Wesolowski and then Carter Stubitz singled to bring the tying run across for Wartburg
  • In the top of the ninth the Beavers led off with a pinch hit solo homerun to take a 5-4 lead heading to the final frame
  • BVU held off the Knights for a 5-4 game one win
• Game Two
  • After a scoreless first inning, BVU got on the board in the second with a four hit inning that scored two runs
  • The Beavers added another two runs with a two out RBI triple and double to left-center field to take a 4-0 lead after three innings
  • Walton put the Knights on the board in the bottom of the fourth with a solo shot to right-center field to make the score 4-1
  • Both Armstrong and Gray got into scoring position early in the fifth inning and Armstrong was scored by an Andrews groundout and Gray was brought in by a Walton single that cut the Beaver lead to 4-3 after five innings
  • Starting pitcher Nick Nin strung together three consecutive scoreless innings to keep the Beavers at four runs heading to the seventh inning
  • BVU opened the game up in the top of the seventh with an eight-run inning that put the Beavers up 12-3 after the top of the seventh inning
  • BVU added another run in the eighth to go up 13-3 an the Beavers held off Wartburg in the bottom half to secure the win in eight innings

 
Top Performers

• Game One
  • Wesolowski
    • 3/4 at the plate
      • Home run
      • Two RBI
      • Two runs scored
      • Double
  • Boehmer
    • Eight innings pitched
      • Six strikeouts
      • Seven hits allowed
      • No walks
  • Armstrong
    • 2/4 the plate
      • Triple
      • Double
• Game Two
  • Walton
    • 324 at the plate
      • Home run
      • Two RBI
      • One run scored
  • Gray
    • 3/3 at the plate
      • Double
      • One run scored
      • Hit by pitch
  • Armstrong
    • 1/3 at the plate
      • One run scored

 
Notes/Streaks

• Wartburg still leads the all-time series 79-66
• Gray posted his sixth three hit game of the season
  • 11 multi-hit games
• Current hitting streaks:
  • Armstrong: 7
  • Gray: 6

 
Next Time Out
The Knights are in action next on Tuesday, Apr. 11 with a home game against Luther at 6 p.m.