BATS STAY HOT AS TIGERS SPLIT FOUR-GAME SERIES WITH CALUMET
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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Calumet (IN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
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Olivet Nazarene (IL) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 5 | 7 | 1 |
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Olivet Nazarene (IL) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
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Calumet (IN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | X | 7 | 13 | 2 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Calumet (IN) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 14 | 0 |
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Olivet Nazarene (IL) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 1 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Olivet Nazarene (IL) | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 17 | 16 | 0 |
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Calumet (IN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 2 |
BOURBONNAIS, Ill. – The Olivet Nazarene University baseball team continued its offensive prowess in the early slate of the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) schedule in a four-game set against the Calumet Crimson Wave this weekend.
Both doubleheaders were split on each day. The Tigers fell 7-5 in Friday's opener before rallying for a blowout 17-6 win in the nightcap. On Saturday, ONU won the pitching duel for a 5-3 opener win before suffering a 13-7 setback to round out the series.
The Tigers pounded out 46 hits across the four-game set. ONU opened the series Friday with 10 hits but couldn't get enough runs across home plate. Trailing 3-1 after the first inning, the Tigers scored three unanswered off RBI hits from Taylor Steig, Taylor Bledoe, and Kai Hudson to claim the lead. But four runs from Calumet (10-13, 4-2 CCAC) put the game out of reach for ONU.
Things turned right around for ONU in Friday's nightcap. The Purple & Yellow Gold put up four runs in the first inning and never looked back, adding four more in the fifth and a crooked seven runs in the seventh to end things early. Evan Pogioli recorded a game-high five RBI to lead the offense. Joeseph Jimenez, Masen Beatty, and Jordan Rhoden all recorded three RBIs each.
Kainoa Mane led the Tigers to victory with a gem on the mound in Saturday's opener, allowing just two earned runs on six hits and striking out five batters in five innings of work to pick up his first win of the season. Donovan Yelle plated the go-ahead run in the fifth inning with an RBI single, setting up Jeffrey Vest who shut down Calumet 1-2-3 in the final inning to collect the save, his second of the season.
One big inning cost the Tigers the doubleheader sweep on Saturday. Jimenez got the Tigers on the board first in the opening frame before Sam Reczek and Jack Dupuis staked ONU to a 3-0 lead with a pair of runs in the second inning. But the Crimson Wave exploded for nine runs in the fourth to take a commanding lead. The Tigers responded with two runs in their half of the fourth and two more in the fifth to cut the deficit to 9-7, but Calumet put up three more in the sixth to put things away.
The Tigers will continue play in the CCAC with a four-game series against Roosevelt beginning Friday at Watson Field.
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*Contact: Evan Wild, Sports Information Director, ewwild@olivet.edu