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Nike
Horigan
4
Winner Dordt College DORBB 9-12, 2-2 gpac
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Northwestern College NOR 13-12, 4-2 gpac
Winner
Dordt College DORBB
9-12, 2-2 gpac
4
Final
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Northwestern College NOR
13-12, 4-2 gpac
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Dordt College DORBB 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 4 4 2
Northwestern College NOR 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 7 1

W: Zylstra, Zach (0-0) L: Done, Joe (0-2) S: Roose, Trent (0)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Red Raiders Split Home Opener Against Dordt

Northwestern College split with Dordt in its home opener tonight, winning game one 4-1 but dropping game two 4-3 in eight innings. The Red Raiders move to 4-2 in conference play, 13-12 overall. 


Photo gallery: vs Dordt

Alex Rickabaugh pitched six solid innings in game one for his third win of the season. The freshman limited Dordt to three hits, no earned runs and struck out three. Isaac Horigan pitched a scoreless seventh to earn his first save of the season. 

The Red Raiders opened up a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a leadoff double by Michael Callahan, who advanced to third on a groundout and scored off a sacrifice fly by Austin Zylstra. 

Dordt scored its only run in the fourth, taking advantage of a Red Raider error, to tie the game at one. Northwestern went ahead for good in its half of the fourth when Matt Martin led off with a double and came around to score after a Defenders error on a ball hit by Casey Guthmiller. 

Northwestern added insurance runs in each of the fifth and sixth innings, getting an RBI double by Callahan in the fifth and an RBI single by Reed Smith in the sixth. 

Brandon Fokkema (2-2) took the loss for the Defenders, giving up all four runs on five hits in 5.2 innings. Zach Fowler went 1-for-3 with an RBI and Chris Schrieber went 1-for-3 with a double. 

Colton Van Otterloo hit the second of his two home runs with one out in the top of the eighth inning to lead Dordt past Northwestern 4-3 in game two.

Van Otterloo hit a three-run shot in the third inning to put the Defenders in front, 3-1. 

Northwestern rallied, beginning with a run in the fourth on an RBI groundout by Zach Rosson, scoring Zylstra, to make the score 3-2. It remained a one-run game until the seventh when pinch-hitter Mitchell Kresnik led off with a walk, advanced to second on a groundout and scored after a Joe Done RBI single to send the game into extra innings.

Done (0-2) picked up the tough loss, giving up just one hit, the go-ahead home run in the eighth inning, in three innings of relief. Chase Davis started the game and pitched the first five innings, striking out six.

Both Done and Martin had two hits to pace the Red Raiders at the plate. Done drove in two while Smith and Zylstra added a run scored. 

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