Baseball | 4/1/2015 11:51:00 PM
Box Score WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. – The West Liberty University baseball team just missed upsetting No. 6-ranked Seton Hill at Kovalick Field Wednesday afternoon as the Griffins scored 3 runs in the top of the ninth to come from behind for a 7-5 win.
Coach Eric Burkle's Hilltoppers (16-9) had taken a 4-3 lead with a three-spot of their own in the bottom of the fourth and added another tally in the bottom of the fifth to go up 5-3. Seton Hill (25-4) scratched out a run in the sixth to trim the deficit to 5-4 but Nolan Marcus – WLU's third pitcher of the day – held the visitors at bay after that until the nationally-ranked visitors broke through in the top of the ninth.
Bub Haddox had a double and a single while Jordan Meyer singled twice and drove in a run for the Black and Gold. Jon-Michael Brunner capped the fourth-inning uprising with a 2-out, 2-run single while Tim Hughes had an RBI single and Taylor Snare doubled in a losing cause. West Liberty returns to Mountain East Conference action on Friday when the Hilltoppers host Urbana in a 1 p.m.twinbill at Kovalick Field.
BASEBALL
No. 6 Seton Hill 7, West Liberty 5
Seton Hill 102 001 003 – 7 11 0
West Liberty 010 310 000 – 5 8 5
SHU: Urtz (1SO, 1W), Ober (3) (2SO, 1W), Sleek (5) (0SO, 0W), Morder wp (0SO, 0W) and Miller. McCarthy T, 2S, rbi; Sell D, S, rbi; Miller D, S, rbi
WLU: Pare (4SO, 1W), Fuscardo (4) (2SO, 2W), Marcus lp (6) (1SO, 0W), Stagani (9) (0SO, 0W) and Carranza. Haddox D, S; Meyer 2S; Brunner S, 2rbi; T.Hughes S, rbi; Snare D
