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HU baseball team wraps up regular season with split at Taylor

The Huntington University baseball team wrapped up its regular season by splitting a doubleheader with host Taylor on Tuesday, April 28, dropping the first game 4-3 in 10 innings but winning the nightcap by the same score.

The Foresters finish the regular season at 24-13 overall and 19-7 in the Crossroads League.

Both teams scored all of their runs in the second game in the second and third innings, with HU tallying two apiece in each frame and Taylor scoring one in the second and two in the third.

Tanner Wyse went the first 4.1 innings and got the win, yielding three earned runs on eight hits, with three strikeouts and no walks. Brock Gower got the save with 2.2 innings of hitless ball, with two strikeouts and two walks.

Dylan Combs, Shea Beauchamp, TJ Lindstrand and Billy Geeslin had the runs batted in for Coach Mike Frame's squad.

Taylor took a 3-2 lead after the second inning in the opener, but HU came back with a run in the sixth to tie the contest before Taylor pushed across the winner in the 10th.

Combs, Heaston Schwob and Lindstrand each banged out a pair of hits, and Geeslin knocked in two runs.

Kyle Zerfas went the first seven innings for HU, giving up three earned runs on six hits, with a strikeout and walk. Blake Hohlbein got tagged with the loss, going 2.2 innings and yielding a run on three hits.

Nick Saldutti had three hits to lead Taylor in the opener.