Concordia Baseball Splits Doubleheader with Briar Cliff
by Matthew Goedeken
The Concordia baseball team split a doubleheader 8-16 and 9-8 with Briar Cliff at home on Sunday, April 3.
Concordia is now 16-16 on the year and 2-2 in GPAC.
In the first game, Freshman Tanner Wauhob relieved for two innings. He did not give up a hit and struck out three batters.
Junior Christian Montero batted .750, hitting 3-for-4 and scoring three times as well. Despite Montero’s three runs, the Bulldogs lost 8-16.
Freshman Ben Kruse was the starting pitcher in the second game and allowed two hits and one run.
The second game was quiet in the first few innings with no runs scored until the fourth inning. The Bulldogs and Briar Cliff traded runs for the next few innings until Briar Cliff scored four runs in the top of the seventh inning. Concordia responded with four runs in the eighth inning. Sophomore Kaleb Geiger plated two RBIs on a double, and Montero scored two more on a home run.
Briar Cliff scored one run in the top of the ninth inning, tying the game at 8.
It looked like the game would go to extra innings when the first two batters flied out and struck out. However, with a 2-2 count and two outs in the bottom of the ninth, freshman Johnny May hit a walk-off home run to beat Briar Cliff 9-8.
“He’s a tremendous athlete and a tremendous kid, he’s a very high character kid,” coach Ryan Dupic said. “He’s just started to get comfortable, he started a little slow, and all of the sudden it’s clicked for him and now he’s really been going.”
The Bulldogs will play again on Tuesday, April 5 when Concordia hosts No. 16 York College in a single nine-inning game.
