Tiffin University baseball (13-14, 5-5 G-MAC) dropped game one to Walsh on Thursday 7-3 but bounced back in game two in dominating fashion with an 11-0 win to snap a four-game slide.
The Dragons got off to a good start in game one as Dylan Ruhe led off with a double. TU scored both runs with two outs as Andrew Fairbrother hit an RBI double and Griff Cady had an RBI single. The Dragons were in prime position to add more runs in the second as they had runners on the corners with one out, but both were stranded as Julian Hernandez and Ruhe struck out to end the inning.
Scotty Adelman got a 2-for-1 ball in the second inning but the double did result in a run for Walsh. In the third, Adelman looked to get out of a bases loaded jam, but a wild pitch with two outs allowed the Cavaliers to tie the game.
The game remained tied at two until the seventh when the first three Walsh batters reached to load the bases with no outs. That forced Adelman from the game and he was replaced by Zach Johnson, and Walsh sent a pinch hitter to the plate which resulted in a grand slam over the left field wall.
Following the second inning in which the Dragons had two runners aboard, the Walsh starter shut down the TU offense the rest of the way and retired 17 in a row before Luke Westerman led off the eighth with a single, but we was quickly erased when Brayden Clark hit into a double play.
Westerman was the only TU hitter to record a multi-hit game. Cal Brazier's lone hit was a solo home run.
Adelman (L, 3-3) started and took the loss, throwing 6.0 innings and allowed five runs on seven hits with three walks and five strikeouts. Johnson and Steven Sexton eached pitched 1.0 innings and both allowed one run on one hit.
Game two seemed destined for a pitcher's duel until the Dragons' bats came alive. For the first three innings, TU starter Johnathan Ray and the WU starter put up zeroes.
Cal Brazier started the fourth with a double and moved to third on a fly out by Andrew Fairbrother and Brazier then scored on an RBI single by Griff Cady for the first run of the game. Later in the inning, Cady scored on an RBI double by Adam Deitschel and Brayden Clark scored on a sacrifice fly by Aidan Grabowski.
Tiffin blew it open in the fourth with six runs on four hits and took advantage of four Walsh errors. Hilario DeLaPaz and Ty Hatfield singled to start the inning and following an error by the WU pitcher, Fairbrother hit a three-run home run. Cady followed Fairbrother's home run with a little league homer as Cady reached on an error by the WU right fielder and raced all the way around the bases to score. Later in the inning, Grabowski scored an unearned run on another error.
Clark doubled home Cady and Fairbrother in the sixth to make it 11-0. Ray had to work around some traffic on the bases in five of the seven innings but kept the Cavaliers off the board.
Ray improved to 2-1 following the shutout win where he went the distance pitching all 7.0 innings with six strikeouts.
Fairbrother, Cady, Clark, and Deitschel had two hits each and Fairbrother drove in three. DeLaPaz walked twice.
