PENSACOLA, Fla. - The Nebraska Wesleyan baseball team defeated the Carroll University by a final score of 9-4 in a non-conference game at the Pensacola Blue Wahoos Challenge at Blue Wahoos Stadium.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Prairie Wolves got on the board early in the first. They loaded the bases with three straight hits from
Jaxon Volkmer,
Duncan Ortega, and
Easton Johnson. Batting cleanup,
Owen Duckworth brought in Volkmer with a hard ground ball to first base.
Carroll tied the game in the bottom of the third. The Prairie Wolves responded with a big fourth inning.
Jake Shedarowich and
Sam Schaefer singled to start off the inning.
Brady Bell stepped up to the plate and drilled a base-clearing triple to the right field wall, his second of the year. Next,
Brayden Harvey put down a perfect bunt rolling down the first place line and scored Bell. The inning stayed alive when Volkmer took advantage reaching on a dropped third strike and advanced to second on an error. Ortega doubled to score Volkmer to cap off the four run inning.
Carrol made the score 5-2 in the bottom of the fourth. Schaefer plated Duckworth in the fifth.
Shedarowich put the game out of reach in the seventh, connecting on a three-run home run to right field that extended the advantage to 9-2.
Jack Starr started and earned the win, allowing four runs, two earned, over 7.1 innings. Tyler Spreitzer closed out the final 1.2 frames. Shedarowich finished 3-for-4 with three RBIs, while Ortega went 2-for-6 with an RBI.
UP NEXT
Nebraska Wesleyan, now 3-5 on the season, returns to action Friday with a doubleheader. The Prairie Wolves face No. 15 UW-Whitewater at 10 a.m. before taking on Concordia-Wisconsin at 1 p.m.
