Kentucky Wesleyan College Athletics

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Carrying some momentum from a dramatic win the finale yesterday, Kentucky Wesleyan baseball looked to leave Cedarville with an even record in Great Midwest Athletic Conference play.

KWC fell behind early in game one before fighting back to win, then came up just short in game two.  Both games were filled with offense, as the Panthers posted 24 runs in the doubleheader while Cedarville scored 21.

GAME ONE – KWC 14, Cedarville 9 (7 innings)

Falling behind 7-1 after just two innings, KWC never lost heart, despite not having Dennon Koziol, their leading hitter, in the lineup for each game.  In the third, the Panthers would cut the lead to 7-4 on Kyle Emig's bases clearing double that scored Chad Klein, Troy Paris and Johnathan Eberhardt.

Starter Sammy Holder kept Cedarville off the board again in the fourth and Eberhardt hit a two-run homer to left to cut the score to 7-6. Emig would tie the game in the fifth with a solo home run and Seth Sharp followed that three batters later with his own two-run home run to give KWC a 9-7 lead.

The scoring was not done in the fifth as Klein singled home Paris and Nathan Stemle to make it 11-7 and cap a five-run inning for the Panthers.  KWC would tack on three more for insurance in the sixth on a double from Stemle that made it 12-7, and Eberhardts's second two-run homer of the game to take it to 14-7.

Cedarville threatened in the ninth, but only pushed across two runs and brought the score to its final margin of 14-9.  Holder picked up his first win of the season, pitching all seven innings and allowing 11 hits, nine runs (seven earned) with five K's.

GAME TWO – Cedarville 12, KWC 10 (9 innings)

The Panthers would jump on Cedarville early in game two, scoring a run in the first on an RBI double by Paris and they would go ahead 2-0 in the second on an error that scored Tyler Howard.
Cedarville would come back to score four in the bottom of the third to take a 4-2 lead. 

A Josh Galvan double in the top of the fourth tied the game at four before Cedarville took the lead back in the bottom half, 5-4.

Emig hit an RBI single to left in the fifth that scored Eberhardt to tie the game again, this time at five, before Cedarville had another response, putting up four more runs in the bottom half to lead 9-5 through five innings.

KWC clawed back, scoring once in the sixth and twice in the seventh to cut the deficit to 9-8, but Cedarville put the game away in the seventh with a three run inning that made the score 12-8.  The Panthers could only push two across in the ninth and the game ended 12-10. 

Preston Frommeyer was the loser in the contest for KWC (15-9/ 3-5 G-MAC) and the Panthers fell two games behind Cedarville (11-11/5-3 G-MAC) in the conference standings.

KWC finally opens their home season this weekend with a visit from Alderson Broaddus.