WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Wesleyan (0-4) baseball team got the bats going late in a pair of losses at West Liberty (7-7, 5-2) on Monday (March 29) at Kovalick Field. 
 
Game One (West Liberty 13, WVWC 8)
The Hilltoppers took a 3-0 lead after the second inning. Wesleyan got on the board when an error by the West Liberty first baseman allowed Andrew Walker and Nick Grotti to score in the top of the third. 
 
West Liberty went on to score 10 unanswered runs highlighted by a Ty Helmke 3-run homer over the right field fence.
 
Trailing 13-2 heading into the top of the seventh inning, the Bobcats did not go down quietly. With one out, Grotti singled through the left side of the infield to plate Bryson Fluke. Two batters later, Sam Ingram delivered a 2-run single. A wild pitch brough Walker home from third as the visitors trimmed the deficit to 13-6. 
 
The frame continued with two down as Geovani Sostre ripped a single into left field. The final Bobcat run of the game came in after Tanner McCallister reached on a dropped popup by the West Liberty. 
 
Game Two (West Liberty 12, WVWC 8)
The second game was a similar story as the Hilltoppers took another early 3-0 advantage after two innings. Cole Shearer drew a bases-loaded walk to bring in Wesleyan's first run of the game in the top of the third. 
 
West Liberty scored nine runs in the bottom half of the third capped off by a Zach Hawkins grand slam. 
 
WVWC chipped away for four runs in the top of the fifth after a Hiltopper error, passed ball and two bases-loaded walks. 
 
Trailing 12-5 in the top of the seventh, McCallister doubled to the gap to score Dylan Poplin and Julio Aguilar. Eric Forbrick laced a single to left as McCallister scored, but 12-8 would be the closest that the Bobcats would get.
 
Forbrick went 3-for-4 at the plate with an RBI while McCallister finished 2-for-3 with three RBI. 
 
Jake Hakey tossed three scoreless innings in relief only allowing two hits and he struck out two batters. 
 
Up Next
Wesleyan baseball resumes its schedule on Friday (April 2) at Hank Ellis Field in a doubleheader against Alderson Broaddus beginning at 1 p.m.