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Box Score 2 WINTER HAVEN, Fla. -- Mount Union's baseball team took a pair of losses 3-0 and 9-8 to No. 22 ranked Wartburg (Iowa) Sunday at Chain O'Lakes Park in Winter Haven, Florida.
The Purple Raiders end the Florida swing at 5-7 overall.
In game one, Mount Union was shut out for the first time this season as the Raiders were held to just five hits in a 3-0 loss.
Wartburg plated two runs in the third and one in the fifth.
Phil Mary (Venetia, Pa./Peters Township) took his first loss of the season (2-1) as he scattered seven hits over seven innings and struck out five.
Wartburg took advantage of a pair of Mount Union errors and got six runs in the second inning of game two.
The Raiders rallied with five unanswered runs -- one in the fourth on a James Weber (Auburn, Ind./Garrett) single and a four-run sixth with Weber again providing the big hit with a two-run double -- to make it 6-5.
Wartburg got it to 7-5 with a run in the bottom of the sixth.
In the seventh, Weber drove had his fourth hit of the game and drove in his fourth run while Jimmy Scott (Holland/Toledo St. John's) drove in two runs as a pinch hitter to give Mount Union a 8-7 lead.
In the bottom of the seventh, Wartburg scored a run on a wild pitch then a walk off single from Tyler Willis ended the game with a final score of 9-8.
Mount Union is back in action Wed., Mar. 16 at 3 p.m. at Hiram.
Wartburg (Iowa) 3, Mount Union 0 (Mar 06, 2016 at Winter Haven, Fla.) (Game 1)
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Wartburg (Iowa)..... 002 010 0 - 3 7 0 (4-2)
Mount Union......... 000 000 0 - 0 5 3 (5-6)
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Pitchers: Wartburg (Iowa) - Max Langheinrich and Mike Brown. Mount Union -
Phil Mary and
Win-Max Langheinrich Loss-
Phil Mary(2-1) T-1:30 A-50
Weather: 75 F, Sunny
Wartburg (Iowa) 9, Mount Union 8 (Mar 06, 2016 at Winter Haven, Fla.) (Game 2)
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Mount Union......... 000 104 3 - 8 12 3 (5-2)
Wartburg (Iowa)..... 060 001 2 - 9 12 2 (5-7)
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and Mike Brown.
Weather: 75 F Sunny
Chase faced 3 batters in the 7th.