SUNDAY RECAP
Senior outfielder Adam Ladzinski made the most of his final collegiate game.
Ladzinski had a career-high four hits, and had one run batted in, during the Chargers' season-ending 7-2 loss to Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio. Hillsdale's season ends with a 17-33 overall record, and 14-19 in the GLIAC.
All four of Ladzinski's hits were singles, and his hit to left-center scored junior Vinny Delicata in the top of the seventh inning.
The Storm scored twice in the first and twice in the second off starting pitcher Lucas Hamelink to grab an early lead in this game.
Sophomore Chris McDonald provided Hillsdale's first run of the game with a solo home run to right-center in the top of the second inning. McDonald and freshman Ethan Wiskur each went 2-for-4 in the game, as the Chargers banged out 12 hits, but were only able to score two runs.
SATURDAY RECAP
Sophomore outfielder Luke Ortel set a single-season school record for at bats during a rain-delayed and wild doubleheader with Lake Erie College Saturday afternoon.
Hillsdale used a strong pitching performance from senior Matthew Reck, in his collegiate finale, to win the opener 7-3. In the second game, the Storm struck for eight runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to come from behind for a 13-10 victory.
Ortel, the team's leadoff hitter, set a new school record for at bats in a single season with his final plate appearance in the first game. He now has 179 at bats on the season, breaking the record previously held by Tim Mustapha (176) and set back in the 2000 season. Connor Bartlett (164) and Tad Sobieszczanski (166) have also earned spots on the school's single-season top 10 at bats list.
Reck won his fourth game of the season with a solid six-inning outing in game one for Hillsdale. He struck out three and walked one, improving his record to 4-4. Junior Dan Pochmara fanned two in his one inning on the mound, closing out the win, though he wasn't in for a save situation.
At the plate, Ortel did more than just set an at bats record. He went 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored for Hillsdale, which outhit Lake Erie 12-7 in the opener. Sobieszczanski and Bartlett each went 2-for-3 with an RBI, and freshman Ethan Wiskur was 2-for-4, one of those hits his third home run of the season. He also drove in two.
Game two featured huge scoring innings by both teams. Junior Nolan Breymaier got the madness started with a two-run single that helped spring the Chargers to a 3-0 lead before the Storm picked up their bats.
Lake Erie promptly scored five runs in the bottom of the first, aided in part to three errors by Hillsdale, to take a 5-3 lead.
The Chargers answered back with five runs in the top of the fourth and two more in the top of the sixth, to take a 10-5 lead. But the Storm had the final word in this one, scoring eight times in the bottom of the sixth to rally for the win.
Bartlett had a huge day at the plate, going 3-for-4 with a home run and three runs batted in. Breymaier had 4 RBI, while Wiskur, Ortel and Sobieszczanski each had two hits in the defeat.