Box Score Records

St. Ambrose 24-13 || Upper Iowa 10-18

Recap

The Peacocks added a game to the schedule Monday after having their count of cancellations reach a baker's dozen this season. Upper Iowa hosted the Fighting Bees of St. Ambrose University in a nine-inning, non-conference contest. Upper Iowa took an early 7-1 lead, but seven unanswered runs for the Fighting Bees and a solid performance by their bullpen gave the visitors the 8-7 victory.

Upper Iowa struck for three runs in the bottom of the first inning thanks to four hits including a leadoff double from Tyler Adams and a two-run homerun off the bat of Alex George. All four of UIU's hits went to left field. After George's blast over the left field wall, the home team had runners on first and second with one out due to singles by Jose Aguirre and Jacob Stenberg. The inning ended when the Fighting Bees doubled up the Peacocks on a line drive to second base.

St. Ambrose got one run back in the second inning after a single and double put two runners in scoring position with one out. Ryan Waack hit a sacrifice fly to right field to bring home the run and cut the gap to 3-1.

The Peacocks put another trifecta of runs on the scoreboard in the second. With the bases loaded and two outs, Aguirre singled up the middle plating Jordan Kearns and Adams, who both singled. George tried to reach third base from first on the hit and the St. Ambrose throw to catch him got away and allowed the Peacock rightfielder to score.

The Fighting Bees loaded the bases with one out in the third on a pair of singles and a hit batsmen, but UIU's starter Blake Seehusen induced an inning-ending double play. Mitch Moser handled the grounder at short, stepped on second and threw to first to end the inning.

The home team added another run in the third to take a 7-1 lead. Moser singled to right center pushing Stenberg, who walked to open the inning, to third base. Stenberg came home on a sacrifce fly by Ryan Citro.

The visitors stormed back with five runs in the fifth inning on four hits and two Peacock errors. All the runs were earned in the inning though as the errors only advanced baserunners and would not have recorded outs. The highlight of the inning for SAU was a three-run homer by Jake McAllister. SAU tied the game in the sixth inning without a hit; a leadoff walk by Ron Rutledge, a sacrifice bunt and two wild pitches created the score.

In the eighth, the Fighting Bees broke the tie with a run on a pair of singles. Luke Flanagan singled to open the inning and moved to third on successive sacrifice bunts by Ron Rutledge and Tommy Argo. An rbi-single by J. Golden plated the go-ahead run.

Upper Iowa came up empty in the eighth and ninth innings dropping the 8-7 decision after holding the six-run lead through the fourth inning.

Nick Alfini earned the win for SAU with 5.2 innings of relief holding the Peacocks to just two hits after the home team had roughed up the Fighting Bees starter with 7 runs on 9 hits through 2.2 innings. Tommy Argo got the save recording the final two outs on a ground ball double play.

Tanner Funke suffered the loss despite throwing 3 innings of relief and allowing just one run on three hits. Seehusen started and went 3 innings allowing one run on six hits. Nic Pierick got in trouble in the fifth inning after a quick fourth finishing with 2 innings of relief and five runs allowed on four hits. Sawyer Bawek pitched the sixth and gave up the tying run without allowing a hit.

At the plate, Adams, Aguirre, Moser and Kearns all recorded two hits. For Adams, the hits bring his career total to 199 in his four seasons with Upper Iowa.

Next Up

Upper Iowa will be the away team on the scoreboard Tuesday afternoon as they host the Bulldogs of the University of Minnesota Duluth at Robertson Woods Field. The NSIC double header that was scheduled for Wednesday in Duluth, was shifted south to Fayette and moved up a day due to rain predictions. The first pitch is scheduled for 12 p.m.