SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – The Allegheny baseball team fell in a pair of North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) games at Wittenberg Saturday (April 30).
The Tigers won game one 9-5 and game two 10-0.
Brett Heckert (Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny) drove in the first and second runs of the opener for the Gators. However those runs came eight innings apart. He drove in
Ryan Dougherty (Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny) with a single in the top of the first before hitting a solo homer in the top of the ninth. In between those two events, Wittenberg plated nine runs, fueled by four home runs. After Heckert's solo shot in the ninth,
Jacob Budnar (Cleveland Heights, Ohio/Cleveland Heights) belted his second home run of the year, a three-run shot to bring Allegheny within the final margin of 9-5.
Heckert had the homer as part of his 3-for-4 day, while Budnar went 2-for4 with a three-run homer. Dougherty,
Ben Kosbie (Pittsburgh, Pa./Shady Side Academy) and Chase Chodkowswki (Buffalo, N.Y./West Seneca West) each had doubles in the loss.
Conor Deasy (Pittsburgh, Pa./Pittsburgh Central Catholic) fell to 6-4 on the year, allowing six hits and five runs (four earned) in 5.1 innings. He struck out six and walked two.
In game two, the Tigers got on the board with a two run third inning. They scored one run in both the fourth and sixth inning before tacking on three runs apiece in the seventh and eighth.
Kosbie,
Jake Stotsky (Pittsburgh, Pa./Vincentian Academy) and
Seth Reisman (Fayetteville, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius) all had a multi-hit game.
The Gators are back in action Sunday (May 1) as they will conclude their April 11 game with Denison before facing 12th-ranked Baldwin Wallace.
