Baseball Suffers 13-2 Setback at Kent State

Box Score.

KENT, Ohio – The Eastern Michigan University baseball team dropped a Mid-American Conference match-up Sunday afternoon, March 22, at Schoonover Stadium in Kent, Ohio, as the Eagles fell, 13-2, to the Kent State University Golden Flashes.

EMU drops to 3-18 (0-3 MAC) with the loss, while KSU improves to 13-4 (3-0 MAC) with the win.

Freshman pitcher Kendall Lewis (Huntsville, Ohio-Indian Lake) took the loss for the Eagles, while Andrew Chafin picked up the win for the Flashes.

Freshman Brent Ohrman (Adrian, Mich.-Adrian), senior Aaron Powell (Clarkston, Mich.-Clarkston) and junior Jim Gulliver (Allen Park, Mich.-Allen Park) each went 2-for-4 at the plate for the Eagles.

The Golden Flashes took control of the game from the get-go, posting four runs in the first two innings of the game to put the Eagles down, 4-0.

Sophomore Matt Skirving (Midland, Mich.-H.H. Dow) put the Eagles on the scoreboard in the top of the sixth, as his RBI single through the right side scored sophomore Zack Leonard (Canton, Ohio-McKinley) to make it a 7-1 game. Leonard went 2-for-4 in the loss with one run, while Skiving finished 1-for-2 with an RBI.

But the EMU pitching staff could not hold off KSU's hot bats, as the Flashes tallied five more runs in the bottom of the sixth to take an insurmountable 12-1 advantage to all but seal the three-game sweep.

The Eagles are back in action Wednesday, March 25, when they travel down the road to Ann Arbor for their second meeting of the season with the University of Michigan Wolverines. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Ray Fisher Stadium.

Eastern Michigan Athletics

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