TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – The Calvin University baseball team lost the first game of its three-game weekend series at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology by the score of 12-2 in eight innings on Friday night.
Rose-Hulman (6-4) took the early lead on a run against Calvin starting pitcher
Nolan Coil (Valparaiso, Ind./Valparaiso) in the first inning, and then added three more in the second inning to take a 4-0 lead.
The Fightin' Engineers added another run in the third, and then took advantage of a pair of Calvin (7-6) errors in the fourth to plate three more runs to push their lead to 8-0.
The Knights had rallies in each of the third and fourth innings on offense, but inning-ending double plays halted their momentum until the top of the fifth frame when
Nate Mason (Portage, Mich./Portage Northern) hit a two-run double that scored
Ryan Brown (Caledonia, Mich./Caledonia) and
Ryan Schummer (West Lafayette, Ind./Central Catholic) to get the Knights on the board.
Rose-Hulman answered with another two-run inning in the bottom half of the fifth after a Calvin error extended the frame against reliever
Alex DeAngelis (Plymouth, Mich./Salem).
The Fightin' Engineers loaded the bases in the eighth inning and ended the night with a two-run single off
Jimmy Bullaro (Macomb, Mich./Lutheran North) to finish the game.
Coil (1-1) pitched into the fourth inning for Calvin and allowed six runs on eight hits, five of which went for extra bases.
Mason led the Calvin offense with two doubles and both runs batted in.
NEXT UP: Calvin baseball returns to action tomorrow (Saturday, March 16) when it plays a doubleheader at Rose-Hulman. First pitch of game one is scheduled for 11:00 AM.
