Ball State University
11-8, 1-4
Bowling Green
8-8, 5-0
Baseball Falls to Bowling Green
March 16, 2024 | Baseball
The Cardinals (11-8, 1-4 Mid-American Conference) led 7-5 after the third inning following a grand slam from Matthew Gonzalez, but the Falcons (8-8, 5-0 MAC) scored in each of the next three frames and cruised to their second triumph of the set.
The visitors had an 8-run inning in the sixth before scoring 14 times in the eighth to clinch the series win. Bowling Green collected 27 hits and committed one error while Ball State rapped out 14 hits and had four miscues.
Gonzalez went 3-for-4 with five RBI and two runs scored on the day, while Blake Bevis, Nick Gregory and Nick Husovsky had a pair of hits each for the Ball State offense.
Bowling Green's Perry Miller improved his record to 2-0 with 2.2 innings of one-run ball out of the bullpen, while Ball State's Logan Schulfer (2-3) suffered the loss after tossing 2.0 innings of four-run ball in his first relief appearance of the year.
Ball State and Bowling Green are set to play the series finale at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Miller, Perry (2-0)
L: Schulfer, Logan (1-3)
Batting:
2B: Krause,Jack 1 ; Birchmeier, Brady 1
HR: Archer,Nathan 2 ; Seidel, Sam 2 ; Wright, Garrett 1
RBI: Archer,Nathan 5 ; Seidel, Sam 5 ; Newman, Dj 2 ; Silva, David 2 ; Banjoff,Leighton 3 ; Krause,Jack 4 ; Birchmeier, Brady 1 ; Takats, TJ 3 ; Parker, Caden 2 ; Wright, Garrett 4 ; McKenzie, Cooper 2
SF: Wright, Garrett 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Archer,Nathan 4 ; Seidel, Sam 3 ; Newman, Dj 2 ; Silva, David 3 ; Banjoff,Leighton 4 ; Laird, Alex 1 ; Krause,Jack 5 ; Takats, TJ 4 ; Ganun,Gavin 2 ; Parker, Caden 1 ; Wright, Garrett 4 ; Horky,Zack 1
SB: Seidel, Sam 1 ; Newman, Dj 1 ; Ganun,Gavin 1
CS: Takats, TJ 1
HBP: Archer,Nathan 1 ; Seidel, Sam 1 ; Krause,Jack 1 ; Birchmeier, Brady 1
Batting:
2B: Hallquist, Michael 1 ; Jacobs, Clay 1 ; Dobbins, Hunter 1 ; Husovsky, Nick 1
HR: Gonzalez, Matthew 1
RBI: Gregory, Nick 1 ; Gonzalez, Matthew 5 ; Kamins, Matthew 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Scheffler, Decker 1 ; Hallquist, Michael 1 ; Bevis, Blake 2 ; Dobbins, Hunter 1 ; Gonzalez, Matthew 2 ; Husovsky, Nick 1
