Baseball Team Suffers Pair of Heartbreaking Losses

The Wells College baseball team dropped a pair of close games on the road at Penn College on Saturday, April 17. In the final 14 innings of play between the two games, Wells outscored Penn by an 8-7 margin yet fell on the wrong side of each contest.

Game One

Wells gave up a pair of runs in each of the first two innings, but rallied by outscoring Penn by a 3-1 margin in the latter half of the game before coming out on the wrong end of a 5-3 final.

Kevin Spaeth (Haddon Heights, N.J.) had his best game of the season after going 4-for-4 at the plate. In back-to-back innings, Spaeth singled to score Derek Shea (West Kingston, R.I.) twice and finished with a stolen base.

Spaeth had four of the team's eight hits with the other four split between Shea and Jordan VanHerpe (Liverpool, N.Y.) with two each.

Luke Eitner (N. Lehigh, Pa.) took the loss from the hill after allowing eight hits with seven strikeouts. Jack Field (Bethlehem, N.Y.) struck out two of the three batters he faced in relief.

Game Two

Shea belted a 2-RBI single that gave Wells a 5-4 lead late by scoring Dylan Nolan (Brick, N.J.) and VanHerpe, before Harrisburg rallied in the bottom of the seventh inning for the heartbreaking 6-5 final. Shea finished the contest with three RBIs.

In addition to Shea, hits came from VanHerpe, Aaron Izquierdo (Palisades Park, N.J.) and Max Odum (Elmira, N.Y.), with the latter striking for a pair. VanHerpe and Nolan both crossed the plate twice for the Express.

Chase Sebastian (Eldred, Pa.) took the loss in 6 1/3 innings of work after allowing seven hits with a pair of strikeouts. Austin Jordan (Kane, Pa.) threw the last five outs and struck out three.

The baseball team completes a home-and-home with Penn in another doubleheader on Sunday, April 18.