KALAMAZOO, Mich. – The Western Michigan baseball team dropped a 9-1 decision to Kent State on Saturday in the middle game of the two teams' MAC weekend series.
FINAL SCORE: Kent State 9, Western Michigan 1
LOCATION: Robert J. Bobb Stadium at Hyames Field (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
RECORDS: Western Michigan (20-18, 14-9 MAC) | Kent State (31-10, 17-6)
W: Ciaran Caughey (5-2) |
L: Sam Carlisle (4-3)
Kent State picked up a run in the first and four in the second to grab an early 5-0 edge.
The visitors to continued to add on in the middle frames, notching one each in the fourth and fifth and two in the seventh.
Western Michigan's offense was quiet for much of the day, but managed to get on the scoreboard in the bottom of the eighth.
Mason Pilarski drew a walk to start the frame, advanced to second on a wild pitch and then moved to third on a ground ball. With two outs,
Tanner Mally flipped a single the other way to bring Pilarski around.
The Broncos and Golden Flashes wrap up their weekend series on Sunday, with first pitch set for 1:05 pm from Robert J. Bobb Stadium at Hyames Field. For tickets to any WMU baseball home game, visit
wmubroncos.com/tickets.
