Posted: Feb 20, 2016
DANVILLE, KY – The Wilmington College baseball team opened the team losing a pair of games to Centre Saturday, falling to the Colonels, 6-1 and 2-1, in non-conference action at Gary Wright Field.
GAME ONE
- Sophomore Jake Robinson (Westerville, OH/South) tallied two of Wilmington's five hits, and scored WC's lone run in the seventh inning. The run tightened the game to 2-1.
- Centre scored four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to give itself some cushion.
- Senior starter Corey Walker (Hillsboro, OH/Hillsboro) took the loss (0-1), allowing just two runs on seven hits in five innings.
- Senior Billy Foster (Xenia, OH/Xenia), after two scoreless innings in relief, allowed three of the first four batters in the eighth inning to end his day. All three runners scored.
KEY MOMENTS
- Trailing 1-0 in the top of the fifth inning, Wilmington had runners on second and third with no outs. However, back-to-back strikeouts and a picked off runner ended the threat.
- In the second and seventh innings, Wilmington had the leadoff runner reach second with no outs, and didn't get score them.
- Wilmington was 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position.
GAME TWO
- Centre took the lead in the bottom of the sixth inning on a one-out, pinch-hit single off Foster. The senior took the loss (0-1), allowing an earned run on two hits in 2/3 innings.
- Four different hitters – Robinson, sophomore Kyle Short (Trenton, OH/Edgewood), sophomore Keith Hayes (Goshen, OH/Goshen) and freshman Gage Bley (Harrison, OH/Harrison) picked up hits for Wilmington.
- After a leadoff triple in the second by Robinson, Bley tallied his first career RBI with a one-out single.
- Freshman Jared Ferenchak (Concord, OH/Notre Dame Cathedral Latin) went 4 2/3 innings in his first collegiate start, allowing one run on five hits with one strikeout.
KEY MOMENTS
- Ferenchak allowed a leadoff triple in the second inning, but kept the run from scoring with a strikeout, flyout and groundout.
- Wilmington had the chance to take the lead in the fifth inning after Hayes singled and stole second. But, the Fightin' Quakers couldn't bring him home.
WHAT'S NEXT
- Wilmington caps the three-game series with a nine-inning game noon Sunday.