CELINA, Ohio – The Trine University baseball team dropped both games of a doubleheader on Sunday afternoon at Wright State University-Lake Campus. The team dropped game one 5-1 and game two 6-4. The Thunder fall to 8-8 on the season and the Lakers are now 13-9 overall.

GAME ONE RECAP:

A two-run single in the first put Trine behind in the first inning and a solo homerun in the second made the score 3-0 Wright State-Lake. The Lakers tacked on a two-run homerun as well to go up 5-0 in the bottom of the fourth.

Trine scratched across their only run in the fifth via a Luke Burford groundball out. Nathan Gilmet was hit by a pitch to begin the inning and his pinch runner Tyler Beyke moved to second on a wild pitch. He would advance once more on an out by Cole Schmidthuber before scoring.

The team was unable to muster up a late rally and lost 5-1 with just three hits in seven innings by Dalton Nikirk, Joel Walton and Brody Bond. The pitching staff consisted of Cole Decker (2-2) and Joseph Closson. They each tallied three innings of work, with Closson's only blemish a walk with three strikeouts.

GAME TWO RECAP:

Cole Temple made his way around the bases in the top of the first and scored on a wild pitch in the frame. An RBI single by Beyke would score Justin Hamberg from second to make it a 2-0 game in the following inning. A two-run blast by the Lakers evened the score in the bottom half.

Wright State-Lake took the lead in the third with an RBI single and would add two more in the fourth inning to claim a 5-2 edge. Nikirk would deliver runs in both the fifth and seventh innings, but his two-RBI day would not be enough to top the Lakers in a 6-4 final result.

Along with Nikirk's productivity in the batter's box at 1-for-1 with a walk and sacrifice fly, Temple was 2-for-3. Will Gimbel (0-1) got the start and went three innings. Cole Decker entered from the bullpen and threw the final three with a team-high three strikeouts.

UP NEXT:

The Thunder take on Ohio Northern University in their final non-conference game of the year on Monday, March 25 at 4 p.m.