The Aurora University baseball team returned to the diamond after a couple days off on the spring trip in Tucson, Arizona and used crooked numbered big innings to defeat Emerson College 20-6.


Game Score: #16 Aurora University 20, Emerson College 6 - 7 innings
Record: Aurora University (3-2)
Location: Tucson, Arizona


- The Spartans took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second with Jacob Ambuel reaching by a hit by pitch and later scoring on a Nick Baldassano fielders choice.
- Emerson tied the score in the bottom of the inning behind three singles.
- AU wasted little time in taking back the lead, scoring five times in the third inning.
- Dylan White singled and scored on a Justin Sartori triple with Sartori scoring easily on a Jett Wedekind blast.
- Later in the inning, Corey Vondra and Colin Meinert had run scoring singles.
- An Emerson solo home run in the third put AU up 6-2.
- A nine-run fourth followed for the Spartans as they allowed a relief pitcher to walk the first three to face and a Nico Bermeo sac fly scored Sartori.
- Jack Seefeldt followed with a run scoring double, Nick Baldassano had a two-run single, Dylan White had a two-run double,  Sartori had a two-run single and Ambuel hit a sac fly to round out the scoring.
- In the inning, AU batted around and faced three different Emerson pitchers.
- Emerson would score three times in the bottom of the fifth to cut the AU lead to 15-5.
- But as had been the case earlier, a crooked number was put up on the scoreboard for the Spartans in the next frame.
- A lead off triple from Meinert got the offense going and later in the inning Seefeldt had a two-run triple and Baldassano a ru scoring double.
- Going to the bottom of the sixth, AU led 20-5.
- Emerson scored a run in the bottom of the seventh but the mercy rule remained.
- AU won 20-6 in seven innings.


HITTING
HITS: Dylan White (4)
HOME RUN: Jett Wedekind (1)
TRIPLE: Colin Meinert, Justin Sartori and Jack Seefeldt (1)
DOUBLE: Jack Seefeldt, Dylan White and Nick Baldassano (1)
RUNS: Jack Seefeldt, Dylan White and Justin Sartori (3)
RUNS BATTED IN: Nick Baldassano (4)

PITCHING:
APPEARANCES (innings): Josh Reinhardt (4.2) and Nick Heiden (2.1)
DECISIONS: Josh Reinhardt (win, 2-0) 
STRIKEOUTS: Josh Reinhardt (7) and Nick Heiden (3)
 
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