The Beloit College baseball team split a pair of seven inning games with Concordia (Minn.) topping the Cobbers 3-2 in the opener and falling 4-0 in the nightcap.
The Buccaneers offense was rolling right off the bat. Nick Schmidt led off the game with a single through the left side. Jalen Davis followed with a first pitch shot up the middle and the pair moved up 90 feet on a wild pitch. Ethan Conley drew a walk to load the bases. With one down, Brice Call tagged a single to right field that plated the first run. Drew Freitag brought in another run with a sacrifice fly to center field to give the Bucs a 2-0 lead after the first half inning.
Following a three-up, three-down stand on defense, Beloit got right back to their bats. Garrison Ferone notched a one out single and Schmidt tallied his second hit of the game on a hard liner down the left field line. A Davis single to center field in the next at bat had Ferone rounding third hard which forced a Cobber miscue on the throw allowing the Bucs' third run to score.
Beloit's hurler Justin Kopech faced just three over the minimum in the next four innings holding the Concordia offense at bay until the bottom of the sixth. A one out single to left field got the inning started followed by back-to-back doubles that narrowed the advantage to one, 3-2. Josh Nelson took over on the mound and got the next two Cobber batters to groundout to get out of the jam.
David Harrison took the mound for the bottom of the seventh sending the Cobbers down in order to register the save.
Davis went 3-for-4 from the plate with a run scored while Schmidt added a 2-for-4 performance in the batter's box.
Kopech tallied the win allowing four hits in 5.1 innings on the mound.
The Cobbers ace starter in the nightcap had the Beloit hitters off balance most of the game. The Bucs recorded four hits in the contest with Conley, Call, James Wicker and Ferone each posting a tally in the hit column.
Connor McCloskey suffered the loss on the mound allowing two runs in 4.2 innings of work.
Up Next: The Bucs will take on Greenville Monday at 2:30 Eastern time at the Lake Myrtle complex in Auburndale, Florida.