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DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY PANTHERS
Andrew Figueroa
Tyler Triemstra

Game Recap: Baseball |

Big doubleheader sweep propels baseball into third place in WHAC

DU won 8-7 in 10 innings and 6-4 on Saturday

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The Davenport baseball team swept a doubleheader against 19th-ranked Indiana Tech on Saturday to move into third place in the WHAC standings. The Panthers improved to 24-12 overall and 15-5 in the conference with an 8-7 win in 10 innings in game one and a 6-4 win in game two. The Warriors fall to 26-9 overall and 14-5 in the league.

GAME 1
Davenport used a seven-run fourth inning to take a 7-1 lead but they could not hold it as the Warriors scored four times in the fifth and once more in the seventh and eighth to force extra innings. Austin Petravicius played the role of hero for Davenport as his two-out RBI single in the bottom of the 10th scored Andrew Figueroa with the winning run. Figueroa had a monster game for the Panthers going 3-for-5 with three RBI, two triples and two runs scored. Matt Hoge went 2-for-5 with a double, run, RBI and stolen base. Petravicius finished 3-for-5 with a double, triple, run and two RBI. Glen McClain hit a pair of home runs for Indiana Tech in the loss. Jonathan Cheshire (4-3) got the win in relief of Grant Wolfram. He tossed six innings and gave up two runs with a walk and two strikeouts. Wolfram fanned six and walked four in four innings.

GAME 2
Davenport again jumped out to a big lead up 5-0 after three innings. Brandon Larkin-Guilfoyle hit his team-leading seventh home run in the second inning over the right center wall. Figueroa continued his hot day with a two-RBI double to left center in the third which scored Hoge and Jeremy Vasquez. Brian Sobieski had a two-RBI triple to right center also in the four-run third for the Panthers. Indiana Tech chipped away with two runs in the fourth. Sobieski collected his third RBI of the game in the fifth on a single to left scoring Nolan Page. The Warriors got two more back off the bat of Peyton Newsom. He hit a home run to right center in the sixth to cut the lead to 6-4. Andrew Click was masterful in relief to get the win (4-2). He threw five innings including three scoreless innings down the stretch. Click allowed just two hits with one walk and six strikeouts. Krystien Johnson-Batillana went four innings and struck out six in the start. Page went 2-for-4 with a triple in the nightcap.
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