For Immediate Release
March 11, 2008
Baseball Opens Season With Split
LINCOLN, Neb. — The Nebraska Wesleyan baseball team finally opened its 2008 season on Tuesday when they hosted York College in a nonconference doubleheader. NWU came away with a season opening split taking game two of the twinbill, 7-5. York rolled in game one with a 12-2 victory in a game that ending in six innings due to the run rule.
NWU (1-1), the last GPAC team to open the 2008 season, tried to adjust to game speed in game one. York entered the game having played 20 games already this season. The Panthers (12-10) pounded out 12 hits and scored 10 runs in the fourth through sixth inning to earn the 10-run victory. NWU actually took a 1-0 lead in the 1st on Andy McGowan's one-run double. York scored seven straight runs to pull away.
Senior Tom Hranac took the loss in game one allowing five earned runs in 3 2/3 innings of work. McGowan led NWU at the plate going 2-2 with a double and RBI. Cory Hilgenkamp drove in the other Prairie Wolves run.
In game two, York got two runs in the top of the 2nd inning, but NWU answered with three runs of their own in the bottom of the 2nd. Steve Schaffer, Jon Scholz and Andy Nealon provided three hits in a row to spark the NWU offense.
That was all NWU starter Zane Cascini would need as the sophomore starting pitcher went six innings allowing three earned runs on six hits, while striking out four.
Hilgenkamp had two hits at the plate, while Schaffer scored three runs. York did have two home runs as Kellen Love and Andy Askins both hit homers.
The Prairie Wolves return to action Wednesday (Mar. 12) as they travel to Seward, Neb., to face Concordia University in a nonconference game starting at 7 pm. The game is a makeup of the games that were postponed this past weekend.
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