CALEDONIA, Mich. - The GLIAC and home opening games for the Davenport baseball team against Northwood was two polar opposite games as the Timberwolves won 6-0 in game one and Davenport won 17-16 in game two. Derek Clark was the story in game one for the Timberwolves. He kept the high-powered Panther offense off-balance in the complete-game shutout. Clark allowed four hits over seven innings and they were all singles. Gaetano Vallone and Noah Marcoux had one hit apiece and Carson Eby went 2-for-3 at the plate. Clark allowed just one walk which came in the bottom of the sixth against Nolan Anspaugh. He also finished with seven strikeouts and induced 11 groundouts.

Derrick Edington had a solid outing but received no run support. Edington went five innings and allowed three hits and three earned runs with a walk and six strikeouts. Northwood held a 2-0 lead through five innings and then scored three times in the sixth and one more in the seventh. NU scored on an error for their third run and then Joey Johnston had a two-run scoring single to make it 5-0. Rhett Evans concluded the scoring in the seventh with a sacrifice fly to right center. The Timberwolves finished with seven hits with Matt Magno going 2-for-4 with a triple and two runs scored. Myles Beale also went 2-for-4 with a double, two runs, and a RBI.

Game two was a wild affair ending with Davenport on the winning end 17-16. The game lasted 4 hours and 11 minutes and saw 13 different pitchers throwing 382 pitches. Nolan Anspaugh had the big hit early in the second inning with a grand slam to right with two outs. Northwood answered back with three runs in the third as Jacob Rybicki had a two-run scoring single and Magno hit a solo homer to center.

The Panthers added a run in the fourth as Anspaugh tripled to leadoff the inning and scored with one out on a Marcoux double to right center. The Timberwolves scored six runs in the fifth to take a 9-5 lead. Magno had a RBI single, Khale Showers had a RBI double, Blake Salamon had an infield RBI single, and Ben Clark brought home two runs on a double to left field.

Christian Petre homered to center field with one out in the fifth to make it 9-6. Davenport tied the game with three runs in the sixth at 9-9. Carson Eby had a sacrifice fly and Petre had a single to left which was misplayed and two runs scored on the error.

Northwood again went ahead 12-9 in the seventh as Johnston had a bunt single and a wild throw to get him out at first went awry allowing two runs to score. Clark then hit a sacrifice fly to score Johnston with the 12th run. DU battled back again with three runs in the seventh. Vallone scored on a wild pitch followed by a Ben Mets RBI on a grounder with a throwing error. Petre reached on a fielder's choice and got a RBI in the process to tie it at 12-12.

The Timberwolves scored twice in the eighth as Showers had a RBI double to left center and Beale later in the inning had a RBI single. Davenport went ahead for good with five runs on just two hits in the eighth. Marcoux had a RBI single to get within 14-13 and then the defining moment came when Eby cleared the bases with a three-RBI triple with two outs just inside the right field line for a 16-14 lead. Eby then scored on a wild pitch for a 17-14 lead.

NU didn't go away in the ninth however as they scored twice. Showers had a chopper down the left field line for two RBI to make it 17-16. Ricky Clark though nailed down his first save of the season by getting a Beale strikeout and Evans groundout to end the game. The game featured 30 hits with Davenport getting 16 of those. Anspaugh went 2-for-5 with three runs and four RBI. Eby went 2-for-3 with two walks and four RBI. Marcoux went 3-for-4 with three runs and two RBI. Vallone went 4-for-6 with two runs scored. DU had six extra-base hits in game two. Spencer Vainavicz got the pitching win (2-1) for DU going one inning in relief and struck out two.