Flashes Fall Short in Series Opener at Mercer

Friday, February 21

Macon, GA

4:00 PM

Kent State University

1-3

Mercer

4-1

Kent State

Mercer

Photo by: Mercer Athletics

Flashes Fall Short in Series Opener at Mercer

2/21/2025 7:12:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

MACON- The Kent State Golden Flashes baseball team fell to the Mercer Bears 5-9 on Friday evening.

After giving up two runs in the first the Flashes fought back to tie the game in the third inning courtesy of an RBI double by Luke Matthews followed by a Hayden Jatczak RBI single.

After Gavin Jones hung a zero on the scoreboard in the bottom of the third the Flashes would score two in the top of the fourth. Max Humphrey would drive in Brody Williams with an RBI double up the left field line. Two batters later Micah Rienstra-Kiracofe would drive in Humphrey on a single to right field.

Mercer would then answer with one in the fourth, four in the sixth, and two more insurance runs in the seventh.

Kent State threatened in the ninth after a bases loaded walk by Dom Kibler, but could not come up with one more clutch at bat.

Ben Rabatin made his collegiate and Flashes debut coming into pitch two outs of the eighth inning.

The victory moves Mercer to 4-1 on the season, with the loss Kent State falls to 1-3. The two teams will meet for the middle game of the three-game set on Saturday, with a 2 p.m. scheduled first pitch.

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