Kent State University
8-10
Pitt
13-7
Flashes Comeback Comes Up Just Short in Steel City
3/19/2025 6:36:00 PM | Baseball
PITTSBURGH- The Kent State Golden Flashes baseball team came up short against the Pitt Panthers on Wednesday afternoon falling 13-17.
The Flashes opened the scoring in the top of the first inning thanks to a Jake Casey home run. The Pittsburgh native got his pitch and drove it out over the wall in centerfield.
The Panthers would respond with five runs of their own in the bottom first and three in the bottom of the second.
Kent State chipped away at the Pitt lead with four runs in the top of the third. Sawyer Solitaria would shoot a single up the middle and the Hunter Klotz would follow up just a few batters later with a three-run blast over the right field wall.
Ripken Reese would open the top of the fourth with a moonshot deep to left. Solitaria would then give then Flashes the lead on a double that found its way out to the left centerfield gap and score Casey and Hayden Jatczak.
Pitt would regain the lead with seven runs in the bottom of the fourth. They would extend their lead with one in the bottom of the sixth and seventh.
The Flashes would cut into the Panthers in the bottom of the eighth with fours runs. Reese would rope an RBI double into the gap in left centerfield and Brady Marshall followed it up with an RBI single to right. Jatczak would plate two more on a 2-run opposite field homer over the wall in right field.
On Deck for the Flashes
Kent State will resume Mid-American Conference play on the road against Bowling Green. The Flashes and the Falcons will play a three-game series this weekend Mar. 21-23.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Porter,Matt (2-0)
L: Kolenda, Jordan (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Casey, Jake 2 ; Solitaria, Sawyer 1 ; Reese, Ripken 1
HR: Jatczak, Hayden 1 ; Casey, Jake 1 ; Klotz, Hunter 1 ; Reese, Ripken 1
RBI: Jatczak, Hayden 2 ; Casey, Jake 2 ; Solitaria, Sawyer 3 ; Klotz, Hunter 3 ; Reese, Ripken 2 ; Marshall, Brady 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Jatczak, Hayden 3 ; Casey, Jake 3 ; Solitaria, Sawyer 1 ; Covas, Alejandro 1 ; Klotz, Hunter 1 ; Thompson, Matt 1 ; Reese, Ripken 2 ; Marshall, Brady 1
Batting:
2B: Melendez,Jayden 1 ; Nessler,AJ 1 ; Zuckerman,Ryan 1 ; Kendro,Jake 1
HR: Carrier,Lorenzo 1 ; Dulin,Caden 1 ; Cooke,Jackson 1
RBI: Melendez,Jayden 1 ; Carrier,Lorenzo 2 ; Nessler,AJ 1 ; Zuckerman,Ryan 2 ; Dulin,Caden 3 ; Cooke,Jackson 5 ; Kendro,Jake 1 ; Pedanou,David 1
SF: Dulin,Caden 1 ; Kendro,Jake 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Cantwell,Luke 3 ; Melendez,Jayden 3 ; Carrier,Lorenzo 2 ; Nessler,AJ 2 ; Zuckerman,Ryan 2 ; Dulin,Caden 3 ; Cooke,Jackson 1 ; Pedanou,David 1
SB: Cantwell,Luke 1 ; Nessler,AJ 1 ; Pedanou,David 1
HBP: Cantwell,Luke 2
