Oilers Split on Final Day of the Season

Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

Hillsdale, Mich. – The University of Findlay baseball team wrapped up their 2021 campaign on Saturday, May 8 with a doubleheader against Hillsdale College. The Oilers lost the opener 13-7 but won the season finale by a score of 9-5 to earn the doubleheader split. Findlay ends their season in ninth in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) standings with a record of 14-25 overall and 12-20 in the league. The Chargers, who entered the weekend in eighth in the conference standings, moved up to sixth after taking three of four against the Oilers. Hillsdale has a record of 19-21 overall and are 15-17 in G-MAC play heading into the conference tournament which begins this coming Wednesday.

With postseason play out of the question coming into the day, the Oilers showed some fight by scoring a pair of runs on a two-RBI double in the first inning of play. That double came off the bat of sophomore Nate Brooks.

Hillsdale then scored 11 unanswered runs to take control of the game.

Findlay scored five runs on three hits in the sixth, but it was not nearly enough as the Chargers went on to a six-run victory.

Junior Trey Bame took the loss in the start and fell to 1-5 on the season. He tossed three innings and allowed eight runs, six earned, on 11 hits. He walked one and struck out five.

The Chargers took a 2-0 lead in the third inning of the second contest but an RBI triple by senior Tyler Archambeau and RBI single by senior Casey Gould in the fourth tied the game at two. Gould had another game tying, RBI single in the sixth which knotted the game at three.

Hits by junior Brandon Emery, senior Ethan St. Clair, senior Austin Rawlins, and Archambeau led the Oilers to a three-run seventh which gave Findlay a 6-4 advantage.

In the ninth, Austin Rawlins launched a ball over the wall in right and senior Ryan O'Malley had an RBI single which gave Findlay a 9-5 lead with three outs remaining in the season.

Senior Jordan Bekier, who entered the game in the eighth, picked up the save by setting down the Chargers in order to end the season.

St. Clair and Tyler Archambeau each had three hits in the final game of their careers. Archambeau had a pair of RBI and scored three runs while St. Clair had one RBI and a run scored.

Brandon Emery and Casey Gould, who ends his career with 167 hits, each had two hits in the game.