ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Gustavus baseball team suffered a pair of losses Saturday at Washington University. The Gusties dropped game one 6-4 and then lost the nightcap 14-8, moving to 7-4 overall.
Gustavus 4, WashU 6
The Gusties held a two-run lead after the top of the fifth, but the Bears answered with a three-run homer in the bottom half to take the lead for good.
Danny Gavin knocked in the first two runs of the game in the second with a single to center field, scoring
Brady Schmitz and
Chris Knowles. WashU responded in the bottom half with a solo homer.
In the fifth,
Drake Siens reach third after a fielding error in center field and then scored on a wild pitch for a 3-1 lead, but the Bears hit back-to-back singles followed by a home run to take a 4-3 lead in the bottom half.
WashU added two insurance runs in the sixth after four hits and an error. Siens tallied the final run of the game in the ninth with a solo home run to right center, his fifth of the season.
Siens led at the plate, batting 2-for-4 with two runs, an RBI, and a walk.
Mitch Casperson suffered his first loss of the season after tossing six innings. He allowed six runs on 11 hits with four strikeouts.
Jackson Thielen pitched two scoreless innings in relief with a pair of strikeouts and one hit.
Gustavus 8, WashU 14
The Bears rolled their momentum into game two with a quick five runs on six hits in the first. The Gusties answered in the second as
Sam Schneider drove in Schmitz and Knowles with a single to center and
Bryce Novak hit a single to plate Gavin.
WashU went up 7-4 in the bottom half after a pair of walks, wild pitches, and a steal of home plate. In the third, the home team added three runs on three hits for a comfortable 10-3 advantage.
Again, the Gusties didn't give in and plated three runs in the fourth. Novak and
Gavin Baker each registered an RBI on fielder's choices and Knowles followed with an RBI double to left center. Gustavus cut the deficit to three in the fifth after Schneider singled home Gavin, making the score 10-7.
The Bears scored solo runs in the sixth and seventh for a 12-7 lead. The Gusties tallied their eighth run in the eighth after Casperson singled to center and later scored on a groundout by Siens.
A two-run homer for the Bears in the bottom half of the eighth proved to be the final runs of the game.
Novak (2-5, R, 2 RBI), Schneider (2-3, R, 3 RBI), and Casperson (2-4, R) paced the Gusties at the plate.
Nick Hentges took the mound loss after starting and going one inning.
Benny Mcdonald had a quality relief outing, going four innings with two earned runs on five hits and four strikeouts.
Gustavus and WashU play another doubleheader Sunday, starting at 11 a.m.
