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17 base seniors
4
Winner West Liberty WLU 26-18, 19-10 MEC
0
WJU WJU 6-33, 5-22 MEC
Winner
West Liberty WLU
26-18, 19-10 MEC
4
Final
0
WJU WJU
6-33, 5-22 MEC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
West Liberty WLU 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 4 8 2
WJU WJU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1

W: Parker Dyson (0-0) L: Standiford, Benjamin (0-0)

15
Winner West Liberty WLU 27-18, 20-10 MEC
10
Wheeling Jesuit WJU 6-34, 5-23 MEC
Winner
West Liberty WLU
27-18, 20-10 MEC
15
Final
10
Wheeling Jesuit WJU
6-34, 5-23 MEC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
West Liberty WLU 4 0 2 1 5 0 3 15 15 4
Wheeling Jesuit WJU 2 3 3 0 1 0 1 10 10 4

W: Logan Maloney (0-0) L: Evans, Tanner (0-0)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Chris Myers

Cardinals Battle Hard, but Fall to Hilltoppers on ‘Senior Day’

WHEELING, W.Va. – Starting the final weekend series of the season, the Wheeling Jesuit baseball team battled hard, but fell short to West Liberty, 4-0 and 15-10, on 'Senior Day' Sunday.
 
The Cardinals (6-34/5-23 Mountain East Conference North) put runners in scoring position four innings, but they could not push a runner across home plate. The Hilltoppers (27-18/20-10 MEC North) scored a pair in both the fourth and sixth for the only runs.
 
A four-run, West Liberty top of the first started a high-scoring late game. Coby Eckstein drove a pitch over left field for a 3-run homer and a five-score fifth gave the visitors the lead for good. WJU's Dillon Sunnafrank drove in four runners, but the one Chris Brake seventh-frame run was not enough for a final at bat comeback.
 
Brake doubled in both games for the Cardinals and scored twice. Drake May added three game two singles, scored four runs and drove home another run.
 
Sunnafrank, Adam Dennison and Chris Minder accounted for two singles apiece.
 
Both teams honored their senior players between games of the doubleheader. WJU had the eight seniors of Brake, Sunnafrank, Ben Standiford, Kyle Rees, Minder, Carter Sancomb, Jagger Bruck and Cody Hudson. WJU and West Liberty also honored Cardinals head coach Terry Edwards before the day's action started as he will be retiring at the end of May. Edwards started the WJU program in 2005 and has been a baseball coach in the Ohio Valley for over 40 years.
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Coach Edwards with some of the former players and the West Liberty jerseys the Hilltoppers presented him.

 
The two rivals finish their season on Monday afternoon, May 8, in another twinbill at the I-470 JB Chambers Complex.
 
Game 1
In the home first, Brake doubled down the left field line with one out. He stayed there as West Liberty retired the next two home hitters.
 
The Hilltoppers put the first two runs on the scoreboard with a bases-loaded walk and a RBI ground out by Justice Jackson in the fourth.
 
In the fifth, Dennison single to short stop and stole second. The sophomore moved to third on a ground out, but after a hit batter the next two Cardinals failed to get a hit.
 
West Liberty added two insurance sixth-inning runs. The visitors committed two errors and hit a batter, but they were able to get the third out. WJU, again, put two runners on in the seventh, but had the same result as the final two hitters were retired for the 4-0 final.
 
Game 2
The late game started with a bang as Eckstein belted a three-run home in the top of the first as part of a four-run frame.
 
May scored on a wild pitch and Minder drove in another as WJU cut the margin in half, 4-2. Sunnafrank put the Cardinals on top for the first time with a two-run single and later stole home for a 5-4 lead after two innings.
 
In the bottom of the third, May drove in one on a single, before Sunnafrank scorched his second two-run hit for an 8-6 advantage.
 
West Liberty rebounded right away in the fifth inning. Trailing 8-7, Tim Hughes led off the at bat with a solo home run to right field. The Hilltoppers added four more unearned runs compliments of two Cardinals error for a 12-8 lead.
 
Matt Angelini reached on an error with the bases loaded for a single home fifth run and two bottom of the seventh hits, including a Brake double produced one final run.
 
 
 
 
 
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