Baseball | 2/22/2020 9:08:00 PM

Box Score     GREENSBURG, Pa. – The West Liberty University baseball team dropped an 18-5 verdict to Walsh (Ohio) here Saturday in a non-conference game at the Seton Hill University Baseball Complex.
    The debuting Cavaliers jumped on Coach Eric Burkle's Hilltoppers (0-6) for five runs in the bottom of the first and never took their foot off the gas, scoring at least one run in every inning.
    West Liberty struck back with a single run in the second inning and mounted a four-run rally in the top of the seventh but it was too little, too late as Walsh raked out a dozen hits off five Hilltopper hurlers.
    Connor Ferguson knocked in two runs with a pair of singles for the Black and Gold while Jared Houser also had an RBI base knock. Chad Matthus doubled in the top of the third for WLU's only extra-base hit.
    The Hilltoppers head south on Sunday for a 10 a.m. game against Bluefield State at Epling Stadium in Beckley, W.Va.
  West Liberty                                         010 000 4 –   5    8  5
Walsh (Ohio)                                        524 421 x – 18  12  2
     WLU: Aulick lp (4SO, 4W), Grimm (3) (0SO, 2W), Dobson (3) (1SO, 1W), Bernard (4) (0SO, 2W), Hummel (6) (0SO, 1W) and Fike, Cooley (5). Ferguson 2S, 2rbi; Houser S, rbi; Matthus D
     WU: Shenefield wp (6SO, 0W), Brogan (6) (1SO, 0W), Bangston (7) (1SO, 3W) and Lyon. Janning D, 2S, 4rbi; Holiga D, S, 2rbi; Graves 2S, 3rbi; DeBruler 2S, 2rbi; Spaulding T, 3rbi