AUBURNDALE, Fla. – The Trine University baseball team fell to Wentworth Institute of Technology in a pair of seven inning games on Monday. Trine (2-6) lost a high scoring affair 13-11 in game one and dropped game two 13-3 to the Leopards (2-2).
 
Luke Burford and Kai Jones led Trine with three hits each on the day. Cole Schmidthuber notched a triple in game one and Josh Peremba added a pair of doubles in game two.
 
Game one was an offensive shootout with the teams combining for 26 hits and either team scored at least one run in every inning. Trine erased a 3-0 deficit in the second inning with four hits. Jones got on base with an RBI double and scored on a single from Burford. William Taczak added a double of his own to score Burford and Schmidthuber. Cole Temple made it 5-3 in the third when he scored on a wild pitch.
 
Burford and Schmidthuber scored again in the fourth with a single from Tyler Wise. WIT would regain the lead in the fourth with five runs and extend it in the fifth with five more. Trine added three in the sixth and one in the seventh but it was too little, too late.
 
The Leopards again piled on runs late in the game in game two. Trine tied the game at 3 in the third inning before WIT scored 10 over the next three innings to secure the win. Trine managed eight hits in the loss but 11 runners left on base and three errors were too much to overcome. Colton Rinehart notched an RBI on a fielder's choice to give Trine a 1-0 lead in the first. Peremba added an RBI double in the second and Jaden Kostura scored Temple in the third with a single through the left side. Wentworth went on to score the next 10 runs to complete the sweep.
 
Trine is off tomorrow before a pair of nine inning games on Wednesday against Waynesburg (Pa.) and Saint Vincent (Pa.)