The Aurora University baseball team took on Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges for the final game of their spring trip out to Arizona. The Spartans kept it close for most of the game but ultimately fell 19-7.
Final Score: Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges 19 ; Aurora University 7
Record: Aurora University 7-7
Location: Tucson, Arizona
- CMS scored first in the second inning with a sacrifice fly to go up 1-0.
- They then scored again in the third to the tune of four runs on back-to-back doubles.
- It was Alex Panico getting the Spartans on the board when he scored in the bottom of the third.
- CMS scored again in the third, now leading 6-1.
- The fourth inning was kind to the Spartans, beginning with a CMS error that allowed Kyle Mack to score and keep the bases loaded.
- A Panico walk then brought in Ryan buck.
- Joe Lukancic followed that with a RBI single to right moving everyone over and scoring Jaden Holgado.
- Zack Tarrant was then hit by a pitch, again moving everyone over and bringing in Washington.
- CMS now only up by two going into the fifth, the score now 7-5.
- Claremont-M-S scored three more in the fifth.
- Then it was Washington again reaching on an error and allowing Mack to score.
- CMS scored nine runs in the sixth inning putting the game out of reach.
- AU scored one more run in the bottom of the inning when Mack hit a sac fly scoring Lukancic.
- AU would fall 19-7 in their final game of spring break.
Hitting
HITS: Joe Lukancic (3)
DOUBLES: Kyle Mack and Joe Lukancic (1)
STOLEN BASES: Joe Lukancic and Alex Panico (1)
RUNS: Kyle Mack (2)
RUNS BATTED IN: Kyle Mack, Joe Lukancic, Zack Tarrant, and Alex Panico (1)
PITCHING:
APPEARANCES (innings): Noah Schlup (3.33), Isaac Goddard and Sean Riordan (1.67)
DECISIONS: Noah Schlup (loss, 0-1)
STRIKEOUTS: Isaac Goddard (2)
Next scheduled action for the Spartan baseball team comes on Saturday, March 21 when they come back home to host Lakeland University in their first NACCion of the year. First pitch of the double-header is set for 12:00 pm at Jim Schmid Field at Stuart Sports Complex in Montgomery, Illinois.
