Baseball Caged Dickinson State

Kansas City, Kan. – The Graceland University Baseball team took on the Dickinson State University Blue Hawks. The Yellowjackets defeated the Blue Hawks, 16-3.

Season Record: Graceland 8-5 | Dickinson State 1-10

Game 1: Graceland 16 | Dickinson State 3
The Scoring – Game 1
T1 – The Blue Hawks would get on the board first with a two-RBI homerun (GU: | DSU: 2)
B2 – Trevor Yorges's single would push Gabriel Perez home. Ybrahim Quevedo doubled to right center; Randy Diaz scored (GU: 2 | DSU: 2)
B3 – Elio Narvaez drove a triple to right center, Zach Tanabe (single) and Jacob Lopez (single) scored. Gabriel Perez would bring home Narvaez from a double down the right field line (GU: 5 | DSU: 2)
T4 – A sac fly to center field would bring in one Dickinson State run (GU: 5 | DSU: 3)
B4 – A Jacob Lopez single would score William Pagan (triple) (GU: 6 | DSU: 3)
B5 – Graceland would add nine runs. Elio Narvaez crushed a solo home run. Trevor Yorges would add his own home run over right field; Randy Diaz (single) and Gabriel Perez (double) scored. A Zach Tanabe bases-loaded hit-by-pitch would move Jake Bigham home. William Pagan (double) would cross home plate from a Juan Guzman bases-loaded walk. Antonio Graham followed with a bases-loaded walk to score Matt Klonsinsk (hit-by-pitch). Tanabe and Guzman crossed home plate from a Blue Hawks error from the hard-hit grounder by Ian Martinez (GU: 15 | DSU: 3)
B6 – Jake Bigham would close the Graceland scoring driving a solo homerun over left field (GU: 16 | DSU: 3)

Game 1 Individual Leaders
Rafael Severino started for the Yellowjackets, going 4.0 innings and facing 21 batters with seven strikeouts. Gavin McLean would enter the game for 2.0 innings and faced nine batters with four strikeouts. Kellen Cameron would close the game for the Yellowjackets facing four batter with one strikeout.
The Yellowjackets had 15 hits, led by Gabriel Perez (3)
Hits produced: 2B: William Pagan, Gabriel Perez (3), Ybrahim Quevedo | 3B: William Pagan, Elio Narvaez | HR: Elio Narvaez, Trevor Yorges, Jake Bigham | RBI: Jacob Lopez, Zach Tanabe, Elio Narvaez (3), Juan Guzman, Gabriel Perez, Antonio Graham, Trevor Yorges (4), Ybrahim Quevedo, Jake Bigham | Sac: Nicolas Boscan

Up Next;
Baseball will return on Saturday, March 2, when they travel to Fayette, Mo. to take on the Central Methodist University Eagles in the conference opener. The first pitch is set for 1:00 pm.

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