Baseball falls 8-4 to Illinois Tech on Day 3 of spring break trip

AUBURNDALE, Fla. — Junior Sam Sells (Lewis Center/Olentangy Orange) and freshman Kyler Lapp (Hall, Ill.) each collected three hits as the Ohio Northern baseball team continued its spring break trip with an 8-4 loss to Illinois Tech on Monday morning.

The Basics

• Records: Ohio Northern (3-4 overall), Illinois Tech (2-6 overall)
• Venue: Lake Myrtle #7 - Auburndale, Fla.

Game Highlights

• Sells and Lapp each finished 3-for-5 while Sells added an RBI.
• The Scarlet Hawks got on the board quickly with three runs in the top of the first.
• Northern answered with two runs in the bottom half of the frame as junior Joey Kennedy (Sterling Heights, Mich./Foley Catholic) scored on a ground ball by senior Logan Stevens (Plain City/Jonathan Alder) and Sells singled home sophomore Chase Armstrong (Louisville, Ky./Trinity) to make it 3-2.
• Northern took a 4-3 lead with two more runs in the bottom of the second inning.
• Kennedy hit a sac fly to score junior Elliott Veenstra (Findlay/Liberty-Benton) to tie the game at 3-3.
• Armstrong followed with a sac fly to score sophomore Robbie Reed (Goshen, Ky./Trinity) to give the polar Bears the lead.
• Illinois Tech regained the lead with a pair of solo home runs in the third and added another solo home run in the fifth to go up 6-4.
• IT picked up a pair of insurance runs in the eighth to make it 8-4.
• The Polar Bears ere out-hit by the Scarlet Hawks 14-8.

Notables

• This is the fourth of 10 games for Ohio Northern during its annual spring break trip.
• Ohio Northern is in its 119th season of baseball. The Polar Bears are 1445-1141 all-time, a winning percentage of .559.
• 13th-year head coach Gene Stechschulte is now 257-192 at Ohio Northern for a winning percentage of .572.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will return to action on Tuesday when they face Utica (N.Y.) at 1 pm at Lake Myrtle #7.