Baseball Drops 11-8 Contest To UIndy In Super Regional Game Two

OVERVIEW – INDIANAPOLIS (NCAA REGIONALS)

SCORES: No. 4 seed Indianapolis Greyhounds 11, No. 6 seed Northwood Timberwolves 8
RECORDS: Northwood 39-20, Indianapolis 34-23
LOCATION: Greyhound Park – Indianapolis, Ind.
RECAP: Northwood baseball's comeback effort falls short in game two of the NCAA Midwest Super Regional Friday (May 23), as Indianapolis earns an 11-8 win to even the three game series at 1-1.

GAME HIGHLIGHTS

• Indianapolis got a two-out, two-run single in the top of the first inning to take an early lead.
• One of the key stretches in the game came in the bottom of the first. Northwood had the bases loaded and no outs. Alex Jarboe hit a line drive down the left field line that had home run distance but was just foul. NU then followed with a strikeout and a double play, which kept the score at 2-0.
• UIndy plated three in the second and one in the third to go up 6-0.
• Northwood got on the board in the bottom of the third on a Logan Voth solo home run that cut the lead to five.
• Josh Getz added an RBI single later in the inning to make the score 6-2.
• The Greyhounds connected on a solo home run of their own in the top of the fourth push their lead back to 7-2.
• Caden Duryea connected on the first of his two RBI doubles in the bottom of the inning to cut the lead to four.
• In the top of the fifth, UIndy had two outs and no one on, the Greyhounds got a single and a Northwood error. The three-run homer that followed plated three unearned runs and made the score 10-3.
• NU did not go quietly, putting together a big eighth inning to get back into the game. Voth brought home the first run of the eighth on an RBI single.
• A wild pitch then brought home Ben DeVries, which was followed by Duryea's second RBI double of the day that made the score 10-6.
• Drew Charters followed with an RBI double of his own to get NU within two.
• Jarboe then came through with an RBI single that got the Timberwolves within two at 10-8.
• NU still had two runners on in the eighth with five runs in but were unable to get any closer.
• Indianapolis led off the top of the ninth with a solo home run to get their lead back to three.
• Northwood went 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth to send the super-regional to a decisive third game.

GAME STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors Northwood: 8/14/3, Indianapolis 11/13/1
• Runners Left on Base: Northwood: 11, Indianapolis: 8
• Winning Pitcher – Bennett Rogers (7-4): 7 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 5 BB, 9 K
• Losing Pitcher – Grant LaMarche (3-7): 1 1/3 IP, 4 H, 5 R, 3 BB
• Save – Frankie Klemm (1): 1 2/3 IP, 2 H, 2 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Duryea: 4-5, 2 2B, R, 2 RBIs
• Voth: 2-5, HR, 2 R, 2 RBIs
• Jarboe/Getz: 2-5, RBI
• Myles Beale: 3 BB, 2 R
• Danny Witbeck: 2/3 IP, 0 R

UP NEXT

• Northwood and Indianapolis will play the winner-take-all game three Saturday (May 24). First pitch is set for Noon. The winner will be the Midwest Regional Champion and earn a trip to the Division II World Series.