Solitaria Plays Hero as Flashes Win Rubber Match

Sunday, March 23

Bowling Green, OH

12:00 PM

Kent State University

10-11, 4-2

Bowling Green

16-7, 7-2

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Bowling Green

Photo by: Reilly Hall

Solitaria Plays Hero as Flashes Win Rubber Match

3/23/2025 3:45:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

BOWLING GREEN- The Kent State Golden Flashes baseball team took the rubber match over the Bowling Green Falcons by a score of 9-7.

The Flashes improve to 4-2 in conference play and clinch their second conference series win of the 2025 season.

The Flashes and Falcons would score in pairs during the first four innings of the game with Bowling Green striking first scoring two in the bottom of the first.

Ripken Reese would get the Flashes on the board in the top of the second with an RBI single through the left side. Brady Marshall would tie the game up just one batter later on an RBI ground out.

Kent State would score two more in the top of the third with a Hunter Klotz RBI double up the left field line and a Reese RBI single but this time he shot it through the right side of the infield.

Bowling Green would respond with two more in the bottom of the third to tie the score up at four runs apiece.

Brody Williams would give the Flashes a 6-4 advantage in the fourth inning with a two-run triple rifled up the left field line.

The Falcons would score one in the sixth and one in the eighth to tie the game up at six as the game entered the ninth inning.

Sawyer Solitaria would play hero in the top of the ninth when he took a 1-0 offering from the Falcon pitcher and parked a three-run homer over the wall in left field. The Freshman continues to swing a hot bat recording his fifth three-RBI game in the last six games.

Bowling Green would get one run in the bottom of the ninth, but it would not be enough as Peyton Cariaco closed the door.

The Flashes bullpen pitched well with Rocco Bernadina going 3.1 innings allowing one run on three hits and striking out five. Caden Leonard followed Bernadina and pitched 1.1 innings and striking out three of the four batters he faced. Cariaco pitched the final 1.1 and allowed just one run on two hits.

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