BOX SCORE
BRADENTON, Fla.- Western Michigan baseball (7-4) fell to Northeastern for the second straight game, being edged by the Huskies, 4-2, Thursday afternoon.
Northeastern (5-2) started off the game with a two-run first inning, off a pair of singles and a double. WMU fought back and tied the game in the fifth. Matthew Abro hit a leadoff double and Max Kelmigian reached safely on a fielding error. Grant Simotes lined an RBI single and Derek Mosher drove in the second run with a sacrifice fly.
The Huskies took the lead back, 3-2, in the bottom of the fifth, scoring on a single and double. Frank Pesanello gave Northeastern an insurance run with a home run of reliever Tim Mowry in the bottom of the eighth.
Ethan Hollingsworth (1-1) struck out a season-high eight batters, but gave up the first three runs, taking the loss. Hollingsworth allowed nine eights, and lasted 5.2 innings before giving away to Mowry.
NU used a pair of southpaws to baffle the Bronco hitters. Starter Charley Bashara (1-0) got the win, pitching six innings and yielding only six hits. Bobby Carrington closed out the game with three hitless innings, earning the save.
Joe Sheets, Chris Lewis, Kyle Galbraith and Mosher joined Simotes and Abro, recording a hit.
"The two left hand pitchers did a very good job," WMU head caoch
Randy Ford said. "The pitcher yesterday I thought was very difficult to figure out but today our hitters were not aggressive enough at the plate letting too many fast balls go by."
Western Michigan will look for its sixth win in Florida tomorrow, taking the field against IPFW at 3 p.m.
