Historic Start For BGSU Baseball Closes With Ninth-Inning Ohio Rally

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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University baseball team saw their historic start to the season come to a close, falling to the Ohio Bobcats 4-2 in the series finale on Sunday (April 21). BGSU's streaks of starting MAC play 17-0 and the home schedule 10-0 both marked program records. The start in MAC play also set the conference record and concluded as the second-best MAC start in BGSU Athletics history.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The first batter of the game ended with a web gem from Falcon second baseman Landon Roque as he dove towards second base and delivered a strike to TJ Takats for the first out of the game.
After a few slow innings to start, Falcon fielders delivered another strong defensive play. Nathan Archer caught a line drive on an Ohio hit-and-run and then threw a laser back to Takats at first to double off the runner to end the top half of the third.
The first run of the game came on a leadoff home run by DJ Newman in the bottom of the fourth to put BGSU on top 1-0 through four innings played.
After a scoreless fifth, Bowling Green added to their tally in the sixth with a two-out rally. Tyler Ross singled to left before stealing second and taking third on a throwing error during the steal. Jack Krause was able to float a single to left as well, scoring Ross for a 2-0 BGSU advantage.
With a career day from Landon Willeman, the Falcons went to Jacob Turner in relief with one out in the seventh. Turner worked two groundouts to exit the inning, both being categorized as gold glove-caliber plays by Leighton Banjoff at third, using a diving stop for the first and playing the short hop on the second.
Turner worked a scoreless eighth inning as well, including another highlight play at third. With runners at second and third with two outs, Banjoff utilized a backhand down the line and a strong throw to end the inning with the score still at 2-0.
In the top of the ninth, Ohio recorded four runs to move in front 4-2.
Bowling Green attempted to answer in the bottom half. Roque knocked a single to begin the bottom half and took second on a wild pitch. A fly out later in the inning moved Roque to third and a walk to Wright put runners at the corners, but BGSU was able to get a run across, concluding the game with a 4-2 score.

STAT LEADERS

Landon Willeman: 6.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R/ER, 4K
Jacob Turner: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R/ER, 1 K
DJ Newman: 1-for-5, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 R
Jack Krause: 2-for-3, 1 RBI
Caden Parker: 2-for-4
Tyler Ross: 1-for-4, 1 R
Landon Roque: 1-for-4

FALCON STAT FACTS

As the leadoff hitter in the fourth inning, DJ Newman extended his hitting streak to a team-high 11 with a home run to left center. Newman now has nine home runs on the season.
Tyler Ross roped a single with two outs in the bottom of the sixth extending his hit streak to seven games for the Falcons.
Jack Krause logged two hits to push his on-base streak to 24 games, the second-longest active streak on the roster.
Leighton Banjoff now has an on-base streak of 11 games, drawing at least one walk in all 11. Over the stretch, Banjoff has earned a base on balls 19 times.
Retiring the first batter in the top of the seventh inning, Landon Willeman set a career-high in innings pitched with six and a third.
Caden Parker tallied a pair of hits to push his on-base streak to seven games. Parker registered five hits over the last two games.

UP NEXT
The Falcons will wrap up their homestand on Wednesday (April 24) against the Dayton Flyers with a 3 p.m. first pitch. BGSU will resume MAC play next weekend on the road against Kent State.

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