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HU baseball team splits with Spring Arbor

Huntington University third baseman Travis Frantz tries to corral an errant throw while a Spring Arbor player slides into third during the first game of a doubleheader Saturday, April 17. The Foresters split the pair.
Huntington University third baseman Travis Frantz tries to corral an errant throw while a Spring Arbor player slides into third during the first game of a doubleheader Saturday, April 17. The Foresters split the pair. Photo by Matt Murphy.

The Huntington University baseball team came within one inning of a doubleheader sweep of visiting Spring Arbor on Saturday, April 17.

The Foresters scored four runs in the sixth inning of the first game to beat Spring Arbor, 6-5, then held a 3-0 lead in the second game until the visitors scored four runs in the seventh to hand HU a 4-3 loss.

The Foresters, 15-17 overall on the season, saw Spring Arbor jump out to a 4-0 lead in the second inning of the first game. The Cougars held a 5-2 advantage in the sixth before HU pushed across the winning runs.

The late rally made a winner of Mitch Bowers, who allowed five runs on 10 hits with three strikeouts and two walks in six innings. Brian Kirschbaum got the save with a scoreless seventh inning.

Andrew Drummond led a 12-hit HU attack with three hits, including a double, and three runs batted in. Ryan Shell added two hits and three RBI and Adam Christner also had a pair of hits.

HU talled three runs in the sixth inning to break open a scoreless second contest, but the Cougars didn't quite read the HU script and responded with four runs of their own in the next frame.

Kirschbaum got the loss for HU, giving up four runs, two earned, on four hits in just two-thirds of an inning of relief.

Travis Frantz and Jamon Hammel each had two hits to lead HU.