LANSING, Mich. - The Davenport baseball team now has a long road to a tournament title after a 5-2 loss to Grand Valley State in the GLIAC Tournament on Friday night. The team would need to win four straight games and that task starts tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 PM against Purdue Northwest.
Logan Anderson had the game's key hit with a three-run homer as part of a four-run fourth inning in which the Lakers scored all four runs with two outs and strung together five straight hits.
Jerad Berkenpas was cruising through 3.2 innings and did not give up a hit. Then all of a sudden, GVSU put together a rally in the fourth. Brendan Guciardo singled to right center and Nathan Logan singled to right center as the Laker catcher moved to third. Connor Schuman then had an infield single that traveled about halfway to
Chase Kemp at third base and he beat the throw to first for the 1-0 lead. Anderson was down in the count 1-2 but Berkenpas hung a curveball on the inside part of the plate and Anderson pulled it over the left field fence for his fourth home run of the season and a 4-0 lead. Jake Rydquist followed with a single to center field and Ayden VanEnkevort walked to end the day for Berkenpas. He would take the loss (4-3) and be replaced by
Connor Foley.
Foley had a fantastic final 4.1 innings out of the bullpen and allowed four hits and one earned run with no walks and five strikeouts. He set new season highs for innings pitched and strikeouts. Mike Morawski matched Berkenpas in an early pitcher's duel for the Lakers. He allowed one run in the fifth inning as
Carson Price led off with a double and later scored on a
Michael Tchavdarov sacrifice fly.
Morawski (7-2) lasted seven innings to get the win and allowed six hits with three walks and five strikeouts. Will Goebel finished the game and allowed a run in the ninth inning. Tchavdarov tripled to right center with one out followed by a
Connor Hnilo walk.
Josh Robinson drilled one to right field for a sacrifice fly to make it 5-2. There was drama at the end as Goebel walked
Anthony Aloisio on six pitches to put the tying run at the plate. He got
Xander Reisbig to strike out on seven pitches to end the game.
After 14 hits in the top four of the batting order yesterday, that group went 3-for-15 in this one. Tchavdarov went 2-for-4 as did Reisbig as the Panthers who recorded a multi-hit game. With Tchavdarov's triple, he now has seven on the season which is tied for fifth in a single season at DU.
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