TIFFIN, Ohio – The Mount Union baseball team lost both games in its Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) doubleheader at Heidelberg on Friday.
Heidelberg (16-5, 4-0 OAC) took a 2-0 lead in game one. Mount Union (14-6, 2-2 OAC) cut the lead in half in the sixth when freshman
Luke Ickes (Green, Ohio / Green) scored on a wild pitch. Ickes answered again in the eighth with a sacrifice fly, however, the Student Princes hung on for a 3-2 win. Junior
Zachary Breeden (Cincinnati, Ohio / Cincinnati Elder) (1-2) went 6.2 innings and gave up no earned runs (three total) off six hits, while striking out three.
In game two, Mount Union jumped out to a 4-0 lead, however, Heidelberg took a 5-4 lead in the third. The Raiders regained lead in the seventh, when graduate student
Zack Mazza (Flint, Mich. / Powers Catholic) connected on a solo home run to right field. The Student Princes, however answered with four runs in the bottom of the seventh and won 9-7. Freshman
Chase Mayer (Amherst, Ohio / Amherst Steele) got the loss after coming for relief, pitching 2.1 innings and giving up four runs off four hits and striking out two.
The Purple Raiders are back in action Saturday, April 6 with a home conference twinbill against Otterbein starting at 1 p.m.
