SSU BB drops 10-6 decision to Oakland City (Ind.); Mendoza goes yard twice as part of four-homer game for Bears
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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Oakland City | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 18 | 4 |
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Shawnee State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 0 |
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio -- The baseball program at Shawnee State got four home runs -- including two from Diego Mendoza and one each from Mason Reid and Zach Gaspar -- in a spirited rally Friday at Branch Rickey Park, but the Bears dropped a 10-6 decision to the Mighty Oaks Friday evening at Branch Rickey Park in Portsmouth.
Game Summary
Despite trailing by a 6-0 count heading into the bottom of the fifth inning, the Shawnee State baseball program rallied back with a flurry -- scoring five unanswered runs to turn the six-run deficit into a tight ballgame.
In the fifth frame, Diego Mendoza and Mason Reid each went yard with back-to-back jacks, and following a two-out error, Mendoza went yard for another two-run bomb in the sixth frame -- turning the tight 6-0 affair into a 6-4 contest heading into the seventh stanza.
Then, in the seventh frame, Shawnee State struck again -- as a two-out single by Zach Gaspar and an error was followed by an RBI base knock by Tyler Lund that closed the Oakland City lead to a 6-5 margin.
However, a wild pitch, an RBI double and a two-run homer over the eighth and ninth innings of action kept Shawnee State from closing any further -- as Oakland City was able to claim the four-run triumph.
For the contest, Mendoza (2-for-3, two walks, two home runs, three RBI, two runs scored), Gaspar (2-for-3, home run, RBI, two walks, two runs scored), Lund (2-for-5, RBI) and Nolan Tressler (2-for-6) each joined in the multi-hit column, while Reid (1-for-4, home run, RBI, run scored) and Ryan Scott (1-for-4) all contributed at the plate as well from a hitting standpoint.
Additional
Shawnee State (16-9, 6-4 River States Conference) takes on Oakland City (17-9, 6-0 River States Conference) in a doubleheader set that begins at 12 p.m. Saturday at Branch Rickey Park in Portsmouth.
