Northwest baseball falls at Kearney

KEARNEY, Neb. — The Northwest baseball team fell to Nebraska-Kearney on Tuesday in a one-game MIAA set, 16-5, to fall to 13-10 overall and 8-5 in conference action.

The Bearcats scored all five of their runs in the first four innings, taking a 5-1 lead after the top of the fourth. However, the Lopers countered with three runs in the bottom of the fourth to slice the deficit to 5-4, the beginning of the hosts scoring the final 15 runs of the contest.

Nebraska-Kearney tacked on eight runs in the bottom of the seventh inning with the MIAA run rule.

Junior Hondo Pearcy started on the hill for Northwest and allowed four runs, just one earned, through 3.2 innings. Junior Nikko Pablo allowed three runs, two earned, through 1.2 innings and junior Bryce Shea gave up seven earned runs in just 1.1 innings on the mound.

Senior catcher Derek Meyer went 2-for-3 with one run and one RBI.

Northwest begins a three-game series against Central Missouri beginning at 4 p.m. Thursday in Warrensburg, continuing at 4 p.m. Friday and ending with the final game of the set at 1 p.m. Saturday.