Northeastern State salvages Game 3, wins 9-2

Northeastern State salvages Game 3, wins 9-2

Maryville, Mo. - On a windy yet beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon, the Northeastern State Riverhawks defeated Northwest Missouri State University 9-2 to salvage Game 3 of the series in Maryville. The game took 2 hours and 45 minutes to play in front of 107 fans at Bearcat baseball field. Northeastern State came out of the gate swinging and Northwest could not match-up with the Riverhawks.  Northwest's pitching could not contain NESU, nor could the Bearcat offense break through the Riverhawk pitching staff on Sunday. With Sunday's loss, Northwest's 2016 record fell to 7-5, 2-1 MIAA.

Offense - Nick Gotta was the team's offensive MVP of the game on Sunday. In total, Go-Go-Gotta went 2 for 3 with 1 RBI, 1 stolen base, and 1 walk in the game. Garrett Fort went 1 for 4 (a double) with 1 run scored and was hit by a pitch in the game. Ozzie Adams went 1 for 4 with 1 RBI in the game. Nick Howard went 1 for 3 (a double) in the game. Dane Appel went 1 for 1 in the game in a pinch hitting role. Kevin Handzlik went 1 for 2 in the game. Kolby Greenslade went 1 for with 1 stolen base and 1 run scored in the game. In total, Northwest scored 2 runs off of 8 hits, 2 RBIs, 1 walk, and left 8 runners on base.

Defense - Northwest was charged with 1 error (Howard) which led to 3 unearned runs in the game.

Pitching - Northwest's pitching had a tough day on Sunday. Brad Roberts earned the start in the game and worked 4.0 innings, allowed 6 hits, 4 runs (all earned), 3 walks, 3 strike-outs, 0 balks, 0 wild pitches, and he did not hit a batter. Hondo Pearcy came into the game in the 5th inning and worked 2.0 innings, allowed 3 hits, 2 runs (both earned), 1 walk, 0 strike-outs, 0 balks, 0 wild pitches, and he hit a batter in the game. Nikko Pablo came into the game in the 7th inning and worked 1.2 innings, allowed 3 hits, 3 runs (all unearned), 1 walk, 2 strike-outs, 1 wild pitch, 0 balks, and he did not hit a batter in the game. Carson Smith came into the game to close it out and worked 1.1 inning, allowed 1 hit, 0 runs, 0 walks, 0 strike-outs, 0 wild pitches, 0 balks, and he did not hit a batter in the game.

NWMSU Athletics' Department website link - http://www.bearcatsports.com/news/2016/2/28/baseball-base.aspx

B2R thoughts - On a windy day, Northwest's pitching did not locate very well and the offense could not keep pace with a swinging Riverhawks team. Sunday is a testament to how important pitching is for this year's NWMSU Bearcats baseball team. If the score is closer, the team probably finds a way to scratch out 4-5 runs in 9 innings. However, if the game gets out of hand, Northwest's offense cannot keep pace with a track meet. Despite the sour ending to the weekend, Northwest had a terrific series with Northeastern State University. Next weekend will be another epic match-up for Northwest as your Bearcats baseball team travels to St. Charles to play Lindenwood in a key MIAA Conference road match-up.

NWMSU 2016 Statistics - 

Player	avg	gp-gs	ab	r	h	2b	3b	hr	rbi	tb	slg%	bb	hbp	so	gdp	ob%	sf	sh	sb-att	po	a	e	fld%
Appel,Dane	1.000	1-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1.000	0	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	0-0	2	0	0	1.000
Gotta,Nick	.390	12-12	41	5	16	4	1	1	15	25	.610	14	0	3	0	.526	2	0	4-6	18	32	2	.962
Greenslade,Kolby	.318	12-12	44	10	14	2	1	0	3	18	.409	2	0	9	1	.348	0	1	5-7	14	0	0	1.000
Fort, Garrett	.295	12-12	44	12	13	1	1	0	5	16	.364	7	4	9	3	.436	0	0	5-6	22	1	0	1.000
Adams,Ozzie	.283	12-12	46	11	13	1	0	0	5	14	.304	5	3	5	1	.389	0	2	2-3	17	34	2	.962
Hrdlicka,Jay	.263	12-12	38	5	10	3	0	0	7	13	.342	12	0	9	1	.440	0	0	2-2	29	2	1	.969
Handzlik,Kevin	.250	7-5	20	1	5	1	0	0	3	6	.300	0	1	4	0	.286	0	0	0-0	3	5	1	.889
Meyer,Derek	.227	9-5	22	1	5	1	0	0	3	6	.273	0	0	6	3	.227	0	0	0-0	43	6	0	1.000
Howard,Nick	.185	9-7	27	4	5	1	0	0	4	6	.222	3	1	9	0	.281	1	1	0-0	6	12	1	.947
Lewis,Jake	.171	11-11	35	7	6	2	0	1	4	11	.314	3	1	4	0	.256	0	0	2-4	53	0	0	1.000
Wulff,Austin	.143	12-7	28	3	4	1	0	0	2	5	.179	4	2	9	0	.286	1	0	0-0	18	0	0	1.000
Barratt,Aaron	.143	7-4	14	3	2	1	0	0	2	3	.214	0	1	3	0	.188	1	1	1-1	7	0	0	1.000
Douglas,Zachary	.143	5-2	7	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	.143	0	3	5	0	.400	0	0	0-0	19	3	1	.957
Holler,James	.120	10-6	25	1	3	0	0	0	2	3	.120	1	0	7	0	.154	0	0	0-0	57	3	0	1.000
Wilkinson,Luke	.000	1-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	1	1	.000	0	0	0-0	0	1	0	1.000
Pablo,Nikko	.000	1-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0-0	1	6	1	.875
Totals	.248	12-12	395	63	98	18	3	2	56	128	.324	51	16	83	10	.353	5	5	21-29	312	122	9	.980
Opponents	.239	12-12	377	55	90	14	1	3	47	115	.305	37	8	90	3	.316	5	12	12-14	318	146	19	.961

LOB - Team (91), Opp (72). DPs turned - Team (6), Opp (12). IBB - Team (3), Gotta,Nick 3. Picked off - Fort,Garrett 2, Lewis,Jake 1, Hrdlicka,Jay 1.

Player	era	w-l	app-gs	cg	sho	sv	ip	h	r	er	bb	so	2b	3b	hr	ab	b/avg	wp	hbp	bk	sfa	sha
Smith,Carson	0.00	1-0	5-0	0	0/0	0	6.2	5	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	25	.200	0	1	0	1	0
Osborne,John	0.00	0-0	1-0	0	0/0	0	0.1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1.000	0	1	0	0	1
Hietpas,Joseph	3.04	3-0	4-4	0	0/0	0	23.2	15	9	8	9	21	3	0	1	82	.183	3	1	0	0	2
Shea,Bryce	3.18	2-0	7-0	0	0/0	0	11.1	6	5	4	5	13	1	0	0	39	.154	0	0	0	0	0
Pablo,Nikko	3.38	0-0	5-0	0	0/0	0	10.2	9	7	4	5	8	0	1	0	34	.265	3	0	0	1	4
Wagner,Jacob	3.86	0-0	3-0	0	0/0	0	2.1	3	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	8	.375	0	1	0	0	0
Caenepeel,Anthony	4.09	0-3	4-4	0	0/0	0	22.0	21	13	10	4	24	3	0	0	84	.250	1	2	1	3	0
Roberts,Brad	4.74	0-1	4-4	0	0/0	0	19.0	24	11	10	8	13	6	0	2	76	.316	0	0	0	0	4
Pearcy,Hondo	5.40	0-0	2-0	0	0/0	0	3.1	3	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	11	.273	0	1	0	0	1
Battaglia,Austin	9.64	1-1	4-0	0	0/0	0	4.2	3	6	5	5	5	0	0	0	17	.176	0	1	0	0	0
Totals	3.81	7-5	12-12	0	0/0	0	104.0	90	55	44	37	90	14	1	3	377	.239	7	8	1	5	12
Opponents	3.99	5-7	12-12	0	1/1	2	106.0	98	63	47	51	83	18	3	2	395	.248	7	16	1	5	5

PB - Team (2), Hrdlicka,Jay 1, Meyer,Derek 1, Opp (4). Pickoffs - Team (4), Pablo,Nikko 2, Caenepeel,An 1, Meyer,Derek 1, Opp (4). SBA/ATT - Meyer,Derek (8-8), Hietpas,Jose (3-3), Roberts,Brad (2-3), Douglas,Zach (2-3), Smith,Carson (3-3), Hrdlicka,Jay (2-3), Pearcy,Hondo (1-1), Shea,Bryce (1-1), Wagner,Jacob (0-1), Caenepeel,An (1-1), Pablo,Nikko (1-1).

Go Cats!!

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