LIMA, Ohio – The Davenport baseball team suffered their first loss in the WHAC snapping an 11-game win streak to start league play on Sunday in a doubleheader at Northwestern Ohio. The Panthers cruised to a 12-2 game one win in eight innings and then the Racers dusted themselves off for a 4-2 win in game two. DU is a half-game ahead of Concordia in the WHAC standings heading into Wednesday's doubleheader at home against Aquinas.

The chilly weather did not seem to bother the Panther bats in game one as they tallied 14 hits in the shortened game. Damon Proctor entered the game for UNOH without a loss but gave up five earned runs with four walks in four innings. His counterpart Corey Murphy also entered with a perfect record and also left with one going to 6-0 for Davenport. Murphy tossed seven strong innings yielding two earned runs and six hits. He issued three walks and struck out five in a 102-pitch outing.

The Panthers scored three runs in the third to take a 4-1 lead. Jeremy Vasquez and Brian Sobieski both walked to start the inning and Travis Bolin had a RBI single. Zac Wilson then hit a two-out, two-RBI single to right center. UNOH got a run back in the third and then DU extended their lead to 7-2 with three more runs in the fifth. Wilson's RBI single scored Matt Priebe who led off with a double. Brandon Larkin-Guilfoyle lifted a sacrifice fly to score Wilson and then J.P. North had a RBI single.

Davenport added four runs in the seventh to put the game away. Larkin-Guilfoyle had a RBI single to right and Vasquez later drew a bases-loaded walk. The last two runs of the inning were scored courtesy of an error. Wilson concluded his stellar game tying his career-high with his fourth RBI on a single to right in the eighth scoring Bolin.

The 20th-ranked Panthers did not have the same prowess in game two as Abrahan Flete kept DU in check going five innings to improve to 3-2 this season. Flete struck out just one and allowed two earned runs coming in the first and fourth innings. Bryan Saucedo took the loss for Davenport (4-3) for all six innings and allowing five hits and four earned runs. He walked one and struck out five Racers. John Schreiber earned his fifth save for UNOH with two strikeouts in the seventh.

Kelvin Flores knocked in a pair of runs in the nightcap with a leadoff homer in the second and a sacrifice fly in the third. Bolin hit his ninth homer of the season in the first with two outs for a 1-0 lead. The Racers took a 3-1 lead after three innings and then DU cut the lead down to 3-2 in the fourth on a Larkin-Guilfoyle RBI double with two outs. Alex Leach hit a big home run to left with two outs in the sixth for an insurance run.