Wednesday, February 29, 2012

9th Inning Rally Silences Storm

Tuesday's match up with DII power, SE Oklahoma, turned out to be a thriller. After a back and forth 8 innings, the SE Oklahoma Storm took a 4 run lead into the final inning. Northwood then started building an inning with the help of a couple of Storm walks. After big RBI scoring hits by pinch hitters, Jason Heflin and Teddy Nowell, the game was tied. SEO elected to intentionally walk Austin Atwell in order to load the bases and set up a force at every base. With Knight's clean-up hitter, Adam Humes, at the plate Northwood scored the winning run on a Storm wild pitch, taking the 9 inning slug fest 15-14 .

The win improves NU to 11-3 on the season. Northwood goes on the road this weekend as they travel to Texas A&M Kingsville.