PITTSBURGH, Pa.  – In its final midweek action of the regular season the Western Michigan baseball team fell to Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Pitt, 14-3 on Tuesday night inside Charles L. Cost Field.

The Broncos nearly outhit the Panthers on Tuesday, recording seven hits to Pitt's 10. Five different Broncos registered a hit with two earning multi-hit games. WMU also had three different players collect an RBI.

Senior Nate Grys collected his 11^th multi-hit game of the season and second home run of the season after going 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored. The solo home run in the top of the fourth was Grys' 21st of his career, moving him into a tie for 11th on WMU's career home run list.

Behind Grys in the line-up was junior Drew Devine who went 2-for-4 at the plate. Devine notched his 14^th multi-hit game of the season and seventh two-hit game. With the performance at the plate, the Marshall, Mich., native extended his reached base streak to five games and his hitting streak to four games.

Along with Grys, fellow senior Jimmy Roche and sophomore Ryan Missal each recorded RBI's against the Panthers. Roche went 0-for-4 at the plate with his long RBI coming on a groundout to short in the top of the fifth. Missal went 0-for-2 with an RBI sacrifice fly in the top of the eighth.

Senior Andrew Stone extended his team-high reached base streak to 13 games after drawing two walks while going 0-for-2 at the plate. As a team the Broncos left nine runners on the base paths compared to Pitt's seven.

The Brown & Gold will be back in action this weekend for a pivotal road Mid-American Conference series against Miami, May 10-12. Western Michigan returns home the following weekend for its regular season finale series versus Ohio, May 16-18. WMU has an overall record of 16-27 and 9-10 in conference play.

Pitt got on the board early in the bottom of the first, connecting on a two out solo home run to right field on a 2-1 count to grab an early 1-0 lead.

In the top of the fourth the Broncos tied the game off the bat of Grys who blasted his second home run of the season over the right center field wall to knot the game at 1-1. The tie didn't last for long as Pitt regained the lead after a bases loaded groundout in the bottom half of the fourth.

WMU responded in the top of the fifth, scoring a run on no hits while capitalizing on a Pitt error. After senior Jesse Forestell drew a walk with one out, the Broncos had runners on first and second after Dunn reached on an error by the Pitt third baseman.

Dunn gave WMU runners on the corners in the next at-bat stealing his 27th base of the season. Dunn's 27 stolen bases leads the MAC and ranks 21st in the NCAA. The Saugatuck, Mich., native scored the next at-bat after a groundout to the Pitt shortstop to tie the game at 2-2.

The game was tied at 2-2 until the Pitt offense came to life in the final five innings, scoring 12 of its 14 runs including four in the sixth to widen its lead and secure the midweek match-up victory.

Western Michigan added one more run in the top of the eighth on two hits. With runners on the corners and one out, sophomore Ryan Missal reached on fielder's choice that allowed Grys to score from third and give the Broncos their third and final run of the game.