MARIETTA, Ohio — Marietta College lost a pair of Ohio Athletic Conference baseball games to No. 8 ranked Mount Union Wednesday (Apr. 22) evening at Pioneer Park. The Purple Raiders won game one, 5-2, and then took the nite cap, 6-3 in seven innings. The second game was called due to lightning.
Marietta moves to 8-20 overall and 5-7 in the OAC. Mount Union improves to 28-6 on the season and 12-2 in the OAC.
Mount Union built a 5-0 lead in the first game. Trevor Szekely got the Purple Raiders on the board with a two-run opposite field home run over the left field wall in the second inning. Mount Added a run in the third, fifth and eighth innings.
Marietta got on the board in the bottom of the ninth.
Michael Ciavolella (Tallmadge, Ohio/Archbishop Hoban) led off with a single and following a ground out,
Zack Molloy (Chambersburg, Pa./Saint James) hit a towering home run to left center.
Ty Dennison (7-0) went the distance on the mound for Mount Union. He allowed two runs on five hits with one walk and 12 strikeouts.
Luke Czarnomski (Medina, Ohio/Medina) (1-4) started and got the loss for Marietta allowing four runs on five hits in 5.0 innings of work.
Ciavolella was the lone Pioneer with two hits in the game.
A four-run fifth inning led the Purple Raiders to victory in game two.
Diego DeCello (Hamilton, Ohio/Badin) gave Marietta an early lead with an RBI double in the bottom of the first. Mount Union answered with one run in the second and one in the third off a solo home run from Jake Jung.
In the fifth, a Pioneer error led to four unearned runs for the Purple Raiders. Luke Ickes plated the first run with a sac fly. Daniel Tome had an RBI single, and Chris Tsouras hit a two-run home run.
Marietta tried to rally in the bottom of the fifth. Molloy made it a three-run game with a two-run single.
Ickes (7-0) started and got the win on the mound. He worked 5.2 innings and gave up three runs on five hits with 11 strikeouts. Christopher Maurer got the save throwing one-third of an inning.
Evan Wilson (Charleston, W.Va./Capital) (1-2) took the loss after allowing two runs on four hits in 4.0 innings.
Bradley Jones (Louisville, Ky./Ferncreek) had two hits for Marietta.
Marietta hosts Capital for Community Day on Saturday (Apr. 25) at 1:00 p.m.
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