Tigers take a pair from the Eagles

Game one Tuesday was filled with pitching changes and some sloppy defense, game two was hard hits and highlight defensive plays. Georgetown College baseball took a pair of wins against Midway University at Robert N. Wilson Field – 7-4, 6-1. The two wins give coach Micah Baumfeld 300 in 9-plus seasons. He took over the team in 2011 and seven of his nine seasons have had 30-plus wins. The team has never been below .500 and his nine-plus includes the COVID shortened year with just 19 games, 11 of which GC had won.

Andrew Day started game one, got the win, scattering four hits with three earned runs and five strikeouts. He gave way to Nickolas Spencer for an inning and a third before Keon Taylor slammed the door on the Eagles (0-6).

Offensively, the Tigers (7-3) pounded out six hits and with the aid of five MU errors had seven runs. Dashon Moore led with two hits, while Joshua Duarte, Shota Usuda, Brandon Krennrich and Val Stammler each had one.

Stammler started game two on the mound, going three innings with one hit, six strikeouts and three walks. Michael Gomez got in some work with two innings without an earned run. Mason Mortimer had a good start to the sixth, but got into a jam that loaded the bases and coach Micah Baumfeld went back to closer Taylor. He got out of the one-out jam as a line drive was snagged by Usuda who caught an Eagle leaning off first for the bang-bang double play.

Krennrich came in for the seventh inning with a five-run lead, however, Midway again seemed to be getting the offense going with a leadoff double by Ryan Davis. A pass balled moved him to third and then a dropped third strike seemed to open the door for him to score.

However, Krennrich tracked down the ball, threw a strike to Adryan Ramirez at first for the force out. As Ramirez saw Davis leaning for home, threw a perfect ball to Krennrich covering the plate and easily tagged him out for another superb double play. The next batter lined out and ended the day.

Tigers are back in action this weekend hosting Indiana University South Bend for a four-game series. First pitch is set for 1 pm Friday.