By KAROLINA JURESIUTE
Student Reporter
Over the weekend, Northwestern Rangers faced Southern Nazarene and swept the series 3-0.The first game of the doubleheader on Saturday score was 10-7.
Dylan Bradford scored the first run for the Rangers in the first inning, when Paul Sachen doubled to left field RBI.
Southern Nazarene had their first run of the game in the second inning. Rangers had a total of three runs in the second inning.
Northwestern added two more runs in the third inning and had a lead of five points 6-1.
Southern Nazarene hit a homerun and only scored one run in the fourth inning to cut the Rangers lead to four points 6-2.
Rangers had one run in the fifth inning and two in the sixth. Southern Nazarene had a strong seventh inning with five runs to cut the lead to two 9-7.
In the eighth inning Hagen Barcello hit a homerun for the Rangers and it was 10-7 wining the game.
The second game of the doubleheader on Saturday Rangers won 6-5. The Rangers were down the whole game but came back with five runs in the last seventh inning.
Southern Nazarine had two runs in the second inning and Rangers answered with one run when Barcello hit a homerun.
Southern Nazarene had two more runs in the fourth inning and they were leading by three points 4-1.
SNU had another run in the seventh run to extend the lead to 5-1.
Rangers remained scoreless until the seventh inning scoring five runs and winning the game 6-5.
Rangers won the third game of the series on Sunday by three runs 12-9.
Southern Nazarene started off the game with three runs in the first inning while Rangers only had one run.
Bradfort scored after Sachen doubled to the right center RBI. In the second inning Rangers brought two runs to the home plate and tied the score 3-3. In the fifth inning, Northwestern Ranger’s Sachen scored after Barcello singled to shortstop RBI.
Southern Nazarene didn’t score again until the sixth inning. Storm hit a homerun to tie the score 4-4
After Carson Wright hit a homerun on the sixth inning, D. Bratford scored. H. Barcello singled to the left field RBI, and P. Sachen brought the Rangers another run. After the sixth inning the Rangers were in the lead by three 7-4.
Southern Nazarene had a better inning by bringing five runs to their home plate and getting the lead back 9-7.
Rangers took back the lead after answering back with five runs in the eighth inning.
H. Barcello scored after Trevor Saire singled to the left field RBI. Trevor Stiles hit a homerun 2-RBI and T. Saire scored.
After Chad Green singled to the right field 2-RBI, Bratford and Jacob Wiltshire scored. The Rangers won the third and final game of the series 12-9.
For the second time this season, junior Carson Wright is named GAC Player of the Week.
Wright batted 0.500 with eight hits, achieving 3 victories for his team.
On this week games, he opened the scoring with a home run. Also, he had two hits, two walks and three RBIs in the first game. In the second game against SNU, he singled and stole a base. To help the Rangers complete the sweep, he went 3-for-5 with a home run, a double and four RBIs.
His batting stats for the season:
Avg: .395/ OPS: 1.338/ Runs: 24/ H: 30/ 2B: 6/ AB: 76/ RBI: 19
