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Conner Morro
Indiana Athletics/Chase Scott Wales
2
Canisius CAN 4-12
5
Winner Indiana IND 9-8
Canisius CAN
4-12
2
Final
5
Indiana IND
9-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Canisius CAN 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 2
Indiana IND 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 X 5 15 1

W: Gordon (1-3) L: Kneussle, Andrew (2-2)

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Canisius CAN 4-13
16
Winner Indiana IND 10-8
Canisius CAN
4-13
5
Final
16
Indiana IND
10-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Canisius CAN 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 5 11 2
Indiana IND 3 0 8 0 1 2 0 2 X 16 11 2

W: Franklin (1-0) L: DeStefano, Jeff (0-2) S: Litwicki (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Indiana Earns Two Wins Over Baseball In Doubleheader

Recap
The Canisius baseball team lost both games of a Saturday afternoon doubleheader, 5-2 and 16-5, to Big Ten opponent Indiana at Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington, Ind. The Golden Griffins produced runs in the ninth inning of each contest, but were unable to pull off the rally in either loss.
 
The victories improved the Hoosiers to 10-8 on the season, while the Griffs fell to 4-13 for 2019.
 
Juniors Jake Burlingame and Jacob Victor, along with redshirt-freshman Cole Hollins, all registered at least one hit in each game, while Indiana's Sam Crail finished Saturday with five hits and four RBI in the two Hoosier wins.
 
Game One
Crail got the Hoosiers on the board early, tallying a single that drove in Jake Skrine and gave Indiana a 1-0 lead in the second inning.
 
Canisius got on the board in the fourth, as Victor doubled and eventually scored on a Stephen Bennett ground-out to tie the game at 1-1.
 
Indiana was able to make something out of a bases-loaded, no-outs opportunity in the bottom of the fourth, as Grant Richardson came home from third when Matt Gorski grounded into a double play, handing the Hoosiers the lead once again.
 
Matt Lloyd extended the lead to 3-1 in the fifth with a solo blast, and Tyler Van Pelt delivered a pinch-hit single late in the inning that plated Ryan Fineman for the fourth Hoosier run.
 
Lloyd continued to power the Indiana offense with another solo homer in the sixth, putting the Hoosiers up 5-1.
 
Canisius threatened with two outs in the ninth, as a throwing error scored Bennett all the way from first and put redshirt-freshman Mike Steffan on second, cutting it to 5-2. After a Hollins single brought the tying run to the plate, Connor Manous struck out the final batter to end the rally.
 
Tanner Gordon carved up a win for himself, as Indiana's starter went eight innings and struck out 10 while only giving up four hits and one run. Canisius senior Andrew Kneussle suffered the loss by allowing four runs, three earned, over 4.2 innings.
 
Senior Nolan Hunt went three innings in the start for the Griffs, allowing a run on five hits while punching out four Hoosiers. Junior Carson Perkins struck out his only batter faced.
 
Victor totaled one run, one double and a walk at the plate, while Bennett drove in one run and scored another. For the Hoosiers, Matt Lloyd went 4-for-4 with his two solo homers, while Drew Ashley, Fineman and Van Pelt all tallied two hits each.
 
Game Two
Striking first, the Hoosiers saw Crail squeak out an RBI single with the bases loaded and a Canisius throwing error on the play allowed two more Indiana runners to score for an early 3-0 lead.
 
Fineman ended Canisius sophomore starter Jeff DeStefano's day with a solo homer in the third, and Crail stole two bases later in the inning to be able to score off a Cole Barr ground-out. Jeremy Houston then doubled to score Wyatt Cross, bringing the Indiana advantage to 6-0. The Hoosiers then extended the game to 11-0 thanks to a bases-loaded walk, a Canisius fielding error and a Crail double.
 
Canisius did answer back in the fourth, as Bennett doubled and freshman Trevor Henneman followed with his own double two batters later, scoring Bennett from third.
 
Indiana added another run in the fifth, as Richardson drove in Ashley on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly that Canisius' Burlingame made a diving catch on.
 
Gorski made it 14-2 in the sixth with a two-run home run, while Justin Walker drove in two more runs with an eighth-inning single.
 
The Griffs did show late life in the ninth, scoring three runs off Matt Litwicki. Redshirt-freshman Mike Mazzara notched a pinch-hit single and came around to score when junior Noah Thompson singled and Indiana made an error on the play. Thompson then scored on a Steffan double and Steffan later crossed home on a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch to senior Joseph Preziuso.
 
Alex Franklin picked up the win, starting the game for Indiana with one hit over three innings. Cam Beauchamp then came in and allowed two runs in three innings, and Litwicki earned the save by pitching the last three frames.
 
DeStefano was handed the loss after surrendering four runs, three earned, in two-plus innings to go with two strikeouts. The rest of the Canisius staff combined after DeStefano to allow 12 runs, seven earned runs and seven hits over the final 18 outs, striking out five Hoosier hitters.
 
The Blue and Gold were led at the plate by Henneman's two doubles and a pair of singles by Hollins. Bennett, Burlingame and Steffan all knocked out doubles as well in the loss.
 
Offensively for the Hoosiers, Gorski, Fineman and Crail all had two-hit performances, as Gorski recorded a double, homer and two walks.
 
Head Coach Matt Mazurek's Postgame Comments
"Game 1 was the tale of getting good pitching but being held at bay offensively - their starter did a good job and we couldn't gain momentum. Hunt and Kneussle again pitched well - Kneussle pitched out of some big jams and minimized damage but offensively we came around too late.
 
"In game 2, we allowed another big inning that put us in an early hole - we gave up 10 runs on eight freebies in 2.2 innings. When the offense is playing catch up like that from the get go, it's not easy to get much going. However, we showed some fight with some good at-bats in the back half of the game.
 
"The offense is talented enough to compete with the best of them ... It's been a mental test for this group to have to fight out of holes and show some grit and grind through some rough patches. There are bright spots and our ability to keep building to put them all together will dictate the future."
 
Game Notes
• This was the third and fourth all-time meetings between Canisius and Indiana, as the Hoosiers hold the series edge at 4-0.
• Senior Conner Morro's sixth-inning single in the first game and third-inning hit-by-pitch in the second game extended his on-base streak to 26 games, continuing a streak that began May 17, 2018 against Marist.
• Burlingame is now on a 14-game on-base streak, starting the streak on Feb. 19 at West Virginia.
• Mazzara's single in the ninth inning of game two marked his first collegiate hit, while Thompson's single was his first as a Griff.
• Redshirt-freshman Nick DeBrino's five recorded outs this season have all come via the swinging strikeout.
 
Up Next
Canisius concludes its four-game series at Indiana on Sunday. First pitch is scheduled for 12:05 p.m.
 
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