ADRIAN, Mich. — The Wittenberg baseball team fell 7-1 at Adrian on Sunday in its final non-conference game of the 2024 season.

The Basics

• Records: Wittenberg (21-14 overall), Adrian (23-13 overall)
• Venue: Nicolay Field - Adrian, Mich.
• Adrian swept a doubleheader against Wittenberg in Springfield earlier this season with wins of 5-4 and 5-3.

Stat Leaders

• Sophomore Tommy Chilicki (Lewis Center, Ohio/Olentangy) led the Wittenberg offense with two hits, including a double.
• Junior Jalen Williams (Catonsville, Md./Western Tech) tallied a triple with an RBI.
• Juniors Ben Seibert (Cincinnati, Ohio/LaSalle) and Josh Bobey (Medina, Ohio/Medina) and sophomore Andrew Kirkpatrick (Chagrin Falls, Ohio/Chagrin Falls) had one hit each.
• Sophomore Andrew Rust (Dublin, Ohio/Coffman) got the pitching start for the Tigers and allowed two runs on three hits and four walks while striking out four.
• Nic Bruder led the Adrian offense with two hits, including a triple, to go with two RBIs and one run.

The Game

• Wittenberg scored its lone run of the game after freshman Xander Rodriguez (Salinas, P.R./Franklin County) drew a one-out walk in the top of the second inning. Williams followed with a home run but was ruled to have not touched home plate after rounding the bases, giving the Tigers just one run on what was officially ruled a triple.
• Adrian took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the third inning an RBI double and RBI single and continued adding to it throughout the remainder of the game.
• The Bulldogs scored one run in the sixth inning and four more in the eighth.
• The Tigers got runners on first and second via back-to-back one-out singles from Bobey and Kirkpatrick in the bottom of the ninth. The runners advanced to second and third on a passed ball but were stranded on the bases to end the game.
• Adrian out-hit Wittenberg by a 7-6 margin and committed no errors to the Tigers' one.

Quote - Head coach Brian McGee

• "The guys unfortunately left the energy back on campus today because we played without any on the road, and when you do that, it shows up in the box score. We expected more out of them today."

Records & Milestones

• Eighth-year head coach Brian McGee is now 154-113 all-time at Wittenberg.
• The Tigers have hit a program-record 36 home runs this season, breaking the prior single-season record of 35 from 1997.
• Senior Matt Moore (Wadsworth, Ohio/Wadsworth) has 154 hits, 22 doubles and 119 RBIs in his career. He ranks fourth all-time in RBIs and is 12 hits and 14 doubles shy of breaking into the program's all-time top 10 in those categories.
• Senior Conor O'Malley (Avon, Ohio/St. Edward's) has 154 hits, 33 doubles, 17 home runs, 118 RBIs, 119 runs scored in his career. He is tied for fourth all-time at Wittenberg in home runs, ranks fifth in RBIs and is 12 hits, three doubles and four runs shy of breaking into the program's all-time top 10 in those categories.
• Senior Luke Thomas (Tallmadge, Ohio/Tallmadge) has 137 hits and 33 doubles in his career. He is 29 hits and three doubles shy of breaking into the program's all-time top 10 in those categories.

Up Next

• The Tigers return to action on Tuesday hosting a North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader against DePauw beginning at 12 p.m.