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Box Score 2 WESTERVILLE, Ohio -- Mount Union's baseball team got beat by the long ball in pair of games at Otterbein falling 11-10 and 10-7 in an Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader Saturday in Westerville.
The Purple Raiders now stand at 16-16 overall and 6-8 in the OAC with four conference games left while Otterbein is 24-7 overall and 10-4 in the OAC.
In the opener, Otterbein rallied with a run in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game at 10-10 then Tyler Kent led off bottom of the ninth with a walk-off home run to left field.
It was Kent's second home run of the game as he hit one in the first inning that gave the Cardinals a 1-0 lead.
Nick Piotrowski (Macedonia/Nordonia) tied the game with an RBI single in the second but Otterbein took the lead right back with two runs in the bottom of the inning to lead 3-1.
Piotrowski was at again in the third inning as his two-out, two-run single up the middle capped a three run inning and put the Raiders back up 4-3 but Otterbein came back again in the bottom half of the inning as Kent had an RBI double that started a three-run inning and put the Cardinals back up 6-4.
Mount Union again answered in the fourth, with the bases loaded and two outs, Adam Bialosky (Medina/Highland) cleared the bases with a double then came home on a Nick Satovich (New Kensington, Pa./Plum) as the Raiders led 8-6.
The Raiders got a run on an error in the fifth and James Weber (Auburn, Ind./Garrett) drove in a run in the seventh that extended the lead to 10-6.
Otterbein then scored three runs in the seventh as two hitter batters and a walk all came around to score and tied it in the eighth on two-out RBI single from Taylor Hutchison.
Bialosky finished with four hits while Weber and Piotrowski each had three as the Raiders had 18 hits in the loss.
Otterbein also got a big home run in game two as Mount Union led 4-3 heading into the bottom of the fourth until a grand slam from Jake Simmerman highlighted a five-run inning that gave the Cardinals a commanding 8-4 lead.
Otterbein scored one more in the fifth to lead 9-4 before the Raiders rallied with a three-run eighth as Weber drove in a run and Jimmy Scott (Holland/Toledo St. John's) hit a two-run home run that got Mount Union within two, 9-7.
Otterbein scored an insurance run in the eighth and held on for the 10-7 win.
Mount Union hosts Allegheny (Pa.) in a single nine-inning non-conference game Monday at 4 p.m. at 23rd Street Field in Alliance.
Otterbein 11, Mount Union 10 (Apr 23, 2016 at Westerville, Ohio)
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Mount Union......... 013 410 100 - 10 18 1 (16-15, 6-7 OAC)
Otterbein........... 123 000 311 - 11 13 2 (23-7, 9-4 OAC)
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KC Brown(8); C. Norton(9) and Hernon.
Win-C. Norton(2-1) Loss-
Kyle Toma(2-4) T-2:49 A-291
HR OTT - T. Kent 2 (8).
Otterbein 10, Mount Union 7 (Apr 23, 2016 at Westerville, Ohio)
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Mount Union......... 101 200 030 - 7 12 2 (16-16, 6-8 OAC)
Otterbein........... 003 510 01X - 10 15 2 (24-7, 10-4 OAC)
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C. Prince; B. Hamilton(6); C. Norton(9) and Hernon.
Win-C. Prince(5-1) Save-C. Norton(4) Loss-
Phil Mary(4-2) T-2:49 A-244
HR OTT - Simmerman (5).
