Kentucky Wesleyan College Athletics

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After having their series pushed back two days, Kentucky Wesleyan baseball finally took the field for a series against Cedarville that was originally scheduled for Friday-Saturday.

KWC led early in game one, but the bullpen could not hold the lead and they fell 10-5.  KWC would fight back in game two, trailing 3-0 and 4-2 to win it 6-4 to improve their record to 14-8 overall and 2-4 in Great Midwest Athletic Conference play.

GAME ONE – Cedarville 10, KWC 5 (9 innings)

The Panthers jumped out quickly in game one, scoring once in the first, twice in the second and once in the third to take a 4-0 lead through three.  Matt Pobereyko was nearly untouchable through five innings, but the pitch count got him in the fifth.

Pobereyko was lifted after facing two batters in the sixth and the bullpen couldn't hold the lead, allowing Cedarville (10-10, 4-2) to come back and tie the game. Josh Vance gave KWC the lead again with an RBI double in the seventh for a 5-4 lead.

Cedarville's bat would come alive again in the bottom half, exploding for five runs in that inning and one more in the eighth to win 10-5.  Pobereyko got the no-decision, throwing five innings and allowing six hits, two runs while walking two and striking out six.  Jordan Collier picked up the loss for the Panthers.

GAME TWO – KWC 6, Cedarville 4 (9 innings)

Cedarville jumped on KWC quickly in game two, scoring once in the first and two runs in the third for a 3-0 lead after three.  The Panthers cut the lead to 3-2 in the fourth on a two-run home run from Chad Klein that also scored Johnathan Eberhardt.

Cedarville scored again in the fifth to make it 4-2, but KWC would respond in the sixth.  Kyle Emig hit a solo home run down the left field line to cut the lead to 4-3 and Josh Galvin would double to left two batters later to score Vance and tie the game at four after six innings.

Neither team scored in the seventh or eighth, setting up a KWC rally in the ninth.  Galvan would lead off the inning with a double and he stayed there after Tyler Howard walked.  Both runners moved up on a ground out and Cedarville would intentionally walk Eberhardt to face Troy Paris with one out and the bases loaded.

Paris made them pay for that decision, hitting a sac fly to right field that scored Galvin and gave KWC their first lead of the game at 5-4.  Klein followed Paris with an RBI single to right that scored Howard and made it 6-4 Panthers.

Justin Kittel would get the save in the ninth, pitching around a leadoff double and a two out walk, picking up a swinging K to end the game.  Matt Lasley started, but did not factor in the decision, going five innings and scattering eight hits with four runs (two earned), with two K's.

Evan Mohr picked up win number two in relief, pitching three innings and allowing just three hits with three K's.  Kittel's save was his fifth.

KWC returns to Yellow Jacket Field tomorrow for the final two games of the four game series.  First pitch is set for 11 a.m. CT.