GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The University of Michigan-Dearborn (2-18, 2-7) baseball team found themselves in a pair of close games on Sunday (Apr. 2) as they traveled to DeWitt Field at Aquinas University (11-14, 3-5). Unfortunately, the Wolverines dropped both games, losing 3-2 and 7-6. 

Neither offense could manage many runs in the first game, as a combined five runs were scored between the two teams. After a Matthew Balash RBI groundout in the second to tie the game at one, the Wolverines took their first lead of the game in the third when Nathan Mack singled through the left side, scoring Max McLennan on the play and taking a 2-1 lead. However, Aquinas would score two unanswered runs in the fourth and fifth inning to take a 3-2 victory. 

Nick Saylor got the nod in game one throwing 4.0 innings and giving up eight hits, three earned runs, and two walks. Ian Gunderson and Alvaro Hernandez each threw a scoreless outing in relief for the Wolverines. 

The bat woke up for game two as the Wolverines got on the board first as McLennan tallied an RBI single in the top of the second to score Robert Begley and take a 1-0 lead. Aquinas would take a 2-1 lead in the bottom half of the third, but Begley would send a towering blast over the left field fence to help the Wolverines retake a 3-2 lead. 

UM-Dearborn would grow that lead in the top of the sixth when Matthew Williams scorched a double to centerfield scoring McLennan and Grant Ingersoll. However, the Wolverines would surrender four unearned runs in the eighth inning to surrender their lead. Down to their last at-bats, the Wolverines would scratch across a run in the top of the ninth as Ingersoll and Nathan Mack performed a double steal. The Aquinas catcher sailed the ball into the outfield allowing Mack to score on the throwing error and tie up the game at six. 

Aquinas walked the game off in the bottom half of the inning on an RBI single to left field.