Box Score WHEELING, W.Va.---The Wheeling Jesuit baseball team fell behind early and rallied in the last inning, but dropped the first game of three-game weekend series against Fairmont State University by a score of 4-3 at the JB Chambers I-470 Complex.
 
The Falcons opened the game with four runs on a solo homerun, a double, a single and three WJU fielding errors. The Cardinals did not allow the Falcons to plate another run. WJU scored their first run in the fourth inning when Tim Geibel led-off with a single to centerfield and scored on a single to right field by Mike Garman. The Cardinals threatened with runners in scoring position several times, scattering base hits in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth innings, but couldn't plate any runs.
 
In the ninth inning, the Cardinals loaded the bases and scored two runs to make a 4-3 ballgame. Cory Wickham was hit by a pitch, and Patrick Ammar followed with a single to right field. With runners on the corners, Geibel fired a shot up the middle which hit the umpire in the leg to load the bases. Robbie Davia received a RBI as he worked the count for a walk, and a base hit to left field by Garman plated the Cardinals' third run. With bases loaded and one out, Austin Guy sent a hard-hit ground ball up the middle; however, the FSU second baseman was there to end the game with double play.
 
Geibel, Garman and Corey Hull led the Cardinals' offense with two hits each, and Cullen Hinderliter doubled in a pinch-hit effort. Davia, Ammar and Wickham added singles.
 
WJU pitcher, Parker Lang, earned the tough loss in eight innings of work. Lang allowed four runs, two earned, on eight hits and a walk while collecting five strikeouts.
 
The Cardinals will continue the series with a doubleheader on Sunday, April 21 at the JB Chambers I-470 Complex. The Senior Day twinbill against Fairmont is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.