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Love's Game-Winning HR Helps Baseball Split With Cornerstone

Love's Game-Winning HR Helps Baseball Split With Cornerstone

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Matt Love blasted a go-ahead three-run homer in game one, helping the Siena Heights baseball team earn a split at WHAC opponent Cornerstone on Monday. The Saints prevailed 5-3 before falling in game two, 10-8.

SHU will return to action on Wednesday with a single WHAC game against Lourdes at 4 p.m.

 

Game one: SHU 5, Cornerstone 3

Love's game-winning bomb happened with two outs in the seventh inning as he turned a 3-2 deficit into a 5-3 lead.

Brad South was the winning pitcher, going three innings of scoreless relief. He finished with three strikeouts and turned in a 1-2-3 inning after Love's hit.

Ben Weadock started on the mound for SHU, allowing three runs on six hits. He had two strikeouts.

Love batted 2-for-4 while Parker Mabe doubled.

The Saints took the game's first lead, 1-0, in the second on an RBI by Mabe.

Later, SHU trailed 3-1 when a balk pushed Adam Wilding across the plate to trim the margin to 3-2.

 

Game two: Cornerstone 10, SHU 8

A late-inning comeback fell short when the Siena Heights bats went silent in the eighth and ninth. The final five SHU hitters were retired via strikeout.

Haydn Smith and Thomas Bakoway had 2-for-5 games. Bakoway doubled. Smith, Mabe and Nick Tiller scored two runs each. Tiller had a home run.

Matt Scally had an RBI single in the Saints' three-run second inning as SHU grabbed a 3-0 lead. The host Golden Eagles came back with the next six runs.

An RBI single by Cole Mason cut into Cornerstone's lead, making it 6-4. The Eagles then increased their advantage to 10-4 with a four-run sixth.

Siena Heights scored the final four runs -- two on Tiller's homer in the seventh and two in the eighth on an RBI fielder's choice by Wilding and an RBI single by Bakoway.

Ryan Sullivan pitched two innings of scoreless relief for the Saints (8-21, 5-12).