LEXINGTON, S.C. – The JWU (Providence) baseball team dropped a pair of games to Ursinus College Saturday afternoon in non-conference baseball action at Lexington County Baseball Stadium.
Game One: Bears 12, Wildcats 8
The Bears jumped out to a 5-0 lead before dingers from senior
Jack Obert, junior
Henry Melanson, and sophomore
Jeremy Auren helped the Wildcats knot the game at six after six. Ursinus put up a '4' spot in the top of the seventh to grab a 10-6 lead. An RBI single off the bat of junior
Jack Dwyer helped JWU push across a pair in the eighth and make it 10-8, however single runs in the eighth and ninth from Ursinus proved to be too much for the Wildcats to overcome.
Junior
Dylan Young worked 6.2 innings on the mound and allowed eight hits and 10 runs (four earned) to go with five walks and two strikeouts. Auren finished game one 3-for-4 while Obert and junior
Jeff Valdez Jimenez each registered two RBI.
Game Two: Bears 5, Wildcats 2
Freshman
Justin Hernandez picked up three hits and junior
Diego Taveras laced an RBI single in the ninth for the Wildcats. Sophomore
Brady Morin took the loss as he surrendered eight hits and five runs (three earned) in six innings of work. He walked one and punched out four.