FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - After a one-day delay in starting the weekend series at Nova Southeastern due to rain, the Davenport baseball team lost a pair of one-run games to the Sharks on Friday and currently have a 3-11 record. The Panthers led in both games before the Sharks came back to steal two wins and get back over the .500 mark at 10-9.
GAME 1
Davenport took a 5-0 lead in the top of the first inning but could not hold that lead and did not score for the remainder of the game. Nova Southeastern got back into it with four runs in the third inning and then tied the game in the fifth inning and took the lead for good in the sixth inning. The seven-inning game ended in the top of the seventh as the Panthers did not threaten.
Anthony Aloisio continued his resurgance batting clean up in the lineup and going 3-for-4 with a run and RBI. Aloisio had three of the team's seven hits in the contest.
Jared Evans,
Josh Robinson,
Xander Reisbig, and
Tyler Mosher also had a base hit. Reisbig had the only extra-base hit which was a two-RBI double in the first inning. Mosher and
Carson Price also drove in a run in the opening inning.
Carson Fischer went all six innings falling to 0-3 on the season. He allowed nine hits and five earned runs with no walks and four strikeouts.
GAME 2
It was another gut-wrenching loss in the nightcap as Davenport took a 2-0 lead in the fifth inning on a two-run scoring single by
Coltrane Rubner. The Sharks got a solo home run by Justin Wachs in the sixth inning and then tied the game in the eighth inning off reliever
Tyler Kapa. Kapa did the cardinal sin of walking the leadoff batter who would score on Mario Lopez Jr. RBI single with two outs. Jared Berkenpas had a brilliant start only to get a no-decision. Berkenpas tossed seven innings and 87 pitches. He allowed one earned run with no walks and four strikeouts. Kapa walked three in one inning of work. Ariel Garcia drew a leadoff walk on four pitches in the ninth and Kapa was replaced by
Austin VandenBrink. He balked the runner into scoring position and then Landon Lowe dropped down a bunt single and VandenBrink's throwing error allowed the winning run to score for the 3-2 final.
Pedro Acosta improved to 1-0 this season going one inning in the top of the ninth with a walk and strikeout. Collin Rothermel got the start and the no-decision after five innings. He allowed two runs with four walks and six strikeouts.
Logan Todd went 2-for-3 in the ninth spot of the lineup and scored a run. DU managed just three hits as Rubner's single in the fifth was the other one. DU struck out 13 times as Edwin Alicea fanned six in just three relief innings of Rothermel.
The teams will play two more games tomorrow beginning at 1 PM.
