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The Concordia University baseball team dropped a high-scoring slugfest of 17-11 to the Nebraska Wesleyan Prairie Wolves at Sherman Field in Lincoln, Neb., Thursday afternoon.
Nebraska Wesleyan touched Concordia starter Jacob Yurich for seven runs on five hits in his inning and a third of work which proved to be too much for the Bulldogs to overcome. Junior right fielder Nate Schmoll put the Bulldogs on the board with a third-inning grand slam to cut the Prairie Wolves lead to 9-4. The two teams matched run-scoring capabilities for the remainder of the game.
The closest Concordia would come was down four, 15-11 in the bottom of the seventh. With none out in the inning, Concordia had runners on first and second but failed to get the key hit that would have closed the gap.
Yurich was tagged with the loss for the Bulldogs on the mound while Nebraska Wesleyan's Zane Cascini picked up his first win of the season throwing five and two-thirds innings, giving up eight runs (all earned) on 11 hits.
Schmoll led the Concordia offense going 3-for-6 with four RBIs and three runs scored. Freshmen Jamie Dillard and Morgan Blatnik each went 3-for-5.
The loss drops the Bulldogs to 2-6 overall with a doubleheader scheduled with York College on Friday, March 6, in York, Neb.