Wheeling, W. Va. – The stretch run for the Mountain East Conference (MEC) Tournament is on and inclement weather has impacted the Wheeling University Baseball team's schedule. Their nine-inning non-conference game against IUP has been pushed back from Tuesday, April 18th, to Wednesday, April 19th, with first pitch scheduled for 3 PM. It will be a single nine inning game for the Cardinals as they try to get another big in region win.
The Cardinals are coming off a weekend where they had a few big wins on their way to splitting the weekend with MEC North leader Frostburg State. Their first win came in the second game on Friday, when the Cardinals put together their second highest run production of the season in a 14-11 win. The Cardinals started the game with a four-run first inning, but their lead was quickly erased as Frostburg State answered with a six-spot. However, the Cardinals came back late and scored six runs in the top of the sixth to pick up the win. Their second win came in the final game of the four-game set on Sunday when the team picked up a 6-2 win. In that game, the Cardinals scored runs in bunches to move their conference record to 9-11 on the season..
The leader for the Cardinals over the past week has been sophomore
Braden Killens, who combined to go 10-19 with two home runs, two doubles, and 11 RBI. Eight of those RBI came in the first win against the Bobcats, when the infielder combined to go 3-5 with eight RBI, including a grand slam as part of the Cardinal's six run top of the sixth. Killens enters the week with 37 RBI on the season and needs just 10 more RBI to tie the single season RBI record of 47, set last season by former Cardinal
Chris Iazzetta. It was also a big weekend for outfielder
Donovan Dubuisson, who went 2-2 with a triple and a career high three RBI in the team's 6-2 win. Dubuisson has been filling in in the outfield throughout the season and has hit a career-best .250 with 12 RBI.
First pitch for Wednesday's nine inning game against IUP is scheduled for 3 PM at the J.B. Chambers I-470 Complex.
