DETROIT – The Saginaw Valley State University baseball program wrapped up their four-game weekend series against Wayne State with a 12-8 loss Sunday afternoon. The Cardinals (21-9, 10-3 GLIAC) earned a series split winning the first two against the Warriors (20-10, 9-4 GLIAC) and own 3-2 season series lead with the final game between these two on Tuesday, April 9.
Hayden Jatczak led the offense going 4-for-6 with two doubles and four RBI. Brandon Schurer and Austin Schweiger both had two hit games with Schuerer scoring three runs. Colin Cornwell went 1-for-2 but walked three times to be on base in five of his six plate appearances. Chase Raymond (L, 5-1) got his first loss of the season going five innings and allowing six runs on 11 hits.
SVSU got on the board first with a sacrifice fly in the top of the first as Jatczak scored off the fly ball hit by Reed Raymond to make it 1-0. WSU responded with four runs in the bottom of the inning including a two-run home run to make it 4-1. In the second, Jatczak singled home Buck Snabes to cut the lead in half, but the run was answered with an RBI ground out in the bottom of the third for Wayne State. Schweiger drove in one more on a sacrifice fly in the top of the fourth to make it 5-3 Warriors before a Wayne State RBI triple in the fifth gave them the three-run lead again.
Ashton Potts (W, 3-1) started on the mound for WSU and went five innings and allowed three runs, two earned, on six hits and three walks. SVSU scored a run on a balk and another on a R. Raymond RBI single in the sixth to make it 6-5. The Warriors took their commanding lead back in the bottom of the sixth. Ben Kochany took over for C. Raymond but gave up three walks and four runs without recording an out. Nick Bastian took over with the bases loaded and gave up three runs which were taxed to Kochany.
Down 10-5 in the seventh, Jatczak doubled home Connor McClennen to make it a four-run game. Wayne State tacked on a run in the seventh and the eighth before Jatczak hit his second RBI double in the ninth to bring the game to the final score of 12-8 Wayne State. R. Raymond pitched the final two innings for SVSU allowing two runs on four hits and one walk while striking out three batters.
With the loss, SVSU holds a one game lead on Wayne State in the GLIAC standings. The Cardinals head back home as they host the final game of the six-game season series against the Warriors on Tuesday. First pitch from Saginaw Valley is scheduled for 3:00 PM EST.