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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Wheeling Jesuit baseball team escaped the wintery weather, if only for a day, and played their first outing of the spring yesterday against Winston-Salem State, falling 5-3 to the Rams.
 
The Cardinals suffered a rusty first two innings of the season, falling behind 5-1 early on, but managing to shut out WSSU for the rest of the game.
 
WJU was tied at one-a-piece with the Rams after the WSSU center fielder threw an error on a double from Mitch Ludewig, allowing him to score on the overthrow.
 
The tide would turn against the Cardinals in the bottom of the 2^nd however, when WSSU, already up 3-1, hit a two-run homer with two outs to put the Rams up 5-1. WJU managed to shut the Rams out the rest of the game.
 
Cardinal starting pitcher Logan Hudson threw three full innings, giving up five runs on five hits. Garrett Sancomb relieved Hudson in the 4^th, and threw three shutout innings. Sancomb was relieved by Kyle Rees who closed out the game with a walk, but no runs scored.
 
Offensively the Cards struggled to get much going after Ludewig's double in the 2^nd, not scoring again till the 8^th when WJU's Michael Adams had a single to right field that drove in Chris Brake to make it 2-5.
 
Chad Ford then came to the plate as a pinch hitter, bringing in Spencer Sninchak on an RBI single to make it 3-5, where the game would end.
 
"Our pitching staff was more than adequate. They kept us in the ballgame," said WJU head coach Terry Edwards. "Offensively we didn't set the world on fire. We need to make ourselves a tougher out at the plate, and put the ball into play with more authority, but we saw some good things and also saw some areas we have to improve on."
 
The Cardinals and Rams were scheduled for a Friday double header, but weather has once again put a halt on the proceedings. The two teams will fill in the weekend with a double-header on Saturday, and a single nine-innings on Sunday.