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7
Northern Kentucky NKU 25-27
8
Winner USC Upstate UPST 28-27
Northern Kentucky NKU
25-27
7
Final
8
USC Upstate UPST
28-27
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Northern Kentucky NKU 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 7 8 0
USC Upstate UPST 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 2 X 8 9 0

W: BIANCHINI, Max (3-2) L: Little, Cody (4-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball suffers late collapse to USC Upstate

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Northern Kentucky University Norse baseball took on USC Upstate in its penultimate regular-season contest on Friday night. Northern Kentucky got out of the gates red-hot with a three-homer, five-run first inning. NKU added two more runs on solo shots, taking a 7-0 lead halfway through the fifth inning, before a massive collapse saw the Norse allow eight unanswered to lose 8-7. 

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Northern Kentucky – 7, USC Upstate – 8
LOCATION: Harley Park – Spartanburg, S.C.
RECORDS: NKU: 25-27 | UPST: 28-27 

GAME SUMMARY
– Homers from Pierce Bauerle, Ethan Thomas, and Landon Springmeyer in the first saw the Norse jump out to a 5-0 lead, while solid pitching from starter Kyle Cortner kept that advantage early on. NKU added runs on solo homers from Alex Brazer in the fourth and Jake Paulick in the fifth to make it 7-0 Norse. Northern Kentucky would allow five runs in the fifth as the Spartans quickly got back in the game. The momentum never swung back in the way of the Norse, as Upstate scored one in the sixth and two in the eighth to take a late lead. 

BOX SCORE BREAKDOWN
– NKU starter Kyle Cortner had his best outing of the season, throwing 3.1 scoreless innings with a pair of strikeouts to open the contest. Cortner allowed four walks and one hit while on the mound. 
– Northern Kentucky's four arms out of the pen all allowed at least one earned run, with Cody Little getting hit with the loss for allowing a pair of runs over the seventh and eighth. He moved to 4-3 on the season. 
– Offensively, the Norse recorded eight hits and four walks in 34 at-bats, with five of those eight hits being the long ball. 
– Ethan Thomas batted 2-4 with a three-run homer.
– Pierce Bauerle, Jake Paulick, Landon Springmeyer, and Alex Brazer all finished 1-4 with solo home runs. 

UP NEXT
NKU takes on the Spartans in the regular season finale on Saturday at 1 PM. 

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