Kent State University
1-2
SIUE
2-1
Flashes Bested By SIUE on Sunday
2/16/2025 3:10:00 PM | Baseball
MOBILE- Hayden Jatczak continued his hot start, but a three-run fifth and two run sixth from SIUE did in the Flashes in a 9-4 setback on Sunday.
Jatczak has been swinging a hot bat to start the 2024 season hitting driving in a pair of runs. The graduate student hit his fourth extra-base hit on the season, his fourth during the South Alabama Invitational.
The Cougars jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning, but the Flashes would answer back with two runs of their own in the top of the third thanks to a Luke Matthews RBI single and a Jatczak RBI double.
SIUE would answer by adding single tallies in the third and fourth before hanging crooked numbers in the fifth and sixth to jump out to a 9-3 lead.
Kent State would get one back in the seventh to cut the lead to 4-9 but could not come up with any more clutch hits with runners in scoring position.
Jake Robinson, Brody Krzysiak, and Evan Holewinski all made their Kent State debuts.
The Flashes will be back in action Feb. 21-23 as they will head back down south to Macon Georgia for a three-game series with the Mercer Bears.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: RODRIGUEZ, Alex (1-0)
L: Bean, Jacob (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Jatczak, Hayden 1
RBI: Matthews, Luke 1 ; Jatczak, Hayden 2 ; Solitaria, Sawyer 1
SF: Jatczak, Hayden 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Matthews, Luke 1 ; Humphrey, Max 1 ; Rienstra-Kiracofe, Micah 2
CS: Kibler, Dom 1 ; Casey, Jake 1
HBP: Casey, Jake 1 ; Humphrey, Max 1
Batting:
3B: NIEDZWIEDZ, Ryan 1
HR: BLOOMER, Chase 1 ; MITCHELL, Mack 1
RBI: BLOOMER, Chase 2 ; WILLOUGHBY, Ethan 2 ; RATLIFF, Kyle 1 ; SIEMER, Michael 1 ; GIERER, Daniel 2 ; MITCHELL, Mack 1
SH: KANG, Sean 1
Base Running:
RUNS: BLOOMER, Chase 2 ; NIEDZWIEDZ, Ryan 2 ; WILLOUGHBY, Ethan 2 ; RATLIFF, Kyle 1 ; MITCHELL, Mack 2
SB: GIERER, Daniel 1
CS: GIERER, Daniel 1
HBP: FRANCK, Gage 1
