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The West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcats battled against the Fairmont State Fighting Falcons in a double header on Saturday, Mar. 30. The Bobcats were unable to take at least one from Fairmont as they dropped both games and moved to 4-6 in conference play.
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Game one was a quiet one for the Bobcats as they were only able to come up with one run off three hits thanks to a
Cole Shearer solo homerun. The other two hits were singles that came from
Grant Shumaker and
Josh Ayala.
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The Fighting Falcons scored five runs off nine hits and had two players with multi-hit games. Cameron Moore went 2-3 with a double and an RBI, and Ryan Goff went 2-4 with an RBI.
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Broderick Rohrbaugh got the loss for Wesleyan and moved to 3-3 on the season. Zane Loveday achieved his first win of the season for Fairmont.
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Game two was a thriller as Fairmont was able to steal the win from the Bobcats off a walk off in extra innings.
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Wesleyan answered first in the top of the third by scoring three to take a 3-0 lead.
Jack Tilton hit an RBI double to score
Malik Wood,
Eddie Rueda hit a sacrifice fly to score
Ryan Drag, and Tilton scored on a pass ball.
The Fighting Falcons were quick to answer in the bottom of the third by scoring three runs to tie it at 3-3.
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Fairmont secured the lead in the bottom of the fifth with an RBI single from Quintin Smith to score Zach Brennan and make it 4-3.
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In their last chance, the Bobcats were able to tie the game in the top of the seventh thanks to a pass ball to score Wood and make it 4-4.
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With many chances with runners in scoring position, Wesleyan was unable to score a run and lost in the bottom of the ninth 5-4 due to a throwing error.
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Anthony Hernandez got the loss for the Bobcats and Ben Taylor got the win for Fairmont.
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The Bobcats look to break its four-game losing streak against West Virginia University Institute of Technology on Tuesday, Apr. 2. Â
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