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Rocket baseball team to face off against Dayton Wednesday

Nicole Badik

Sophomore RHP Caleb Schillace, pictured above, hopes to help the Rockets hand Dayton a defeat on Wednesday. Toledo will host the Flyers at 3:05 p.m. at Scott Park.

Blake Bacho, Sports Editor

The University of Toledo baseball team will have to contend with a fierce group of pitchers when they face off against Dayton Wednesday afternoon.

But they’ve already done it once.

Toledo handed UD an 11-6 defeat under the lights of the Athletes in Action Sports Complex back on March 19.

UT finished with 10 hits, six walks and two hit-by-pitches against six Dayton pitchers during that first contest. Freshman OF Jordan Kesson and sophomore INF Tyler Baar paced Toledo’s offensive attack with multi-hit efforts during the last contest against Dayton, and Toledo will be hoping for a similar outcome Wednesday at home.

This marks the second non-league game of the week for Toledo. The Rockets were hosted by Michigan State on Tuesday, falling 4-2 to the Spartans at McLane Stadium in East Lansing.

UT allowed MSU to score three of their runs in the first inning, which turned out to be the difference maker in the contest.

Michigan State came into the match having been swept at Indiana in a three-game series last weekend, while Toledo was hoping to build off of winning two-of-three against Ohio.

MSU’s Cam Gibson went 3-for-4 against the Rockets Tuesday, and the Spartan’s Blaise Salter put up a pair of runs.

Toledo managed to put in an RBI in the sixth to cut into Michigan State’s lead, but the Spartans were able to exit the inning maintaining a 4-2 lead.

UT freshman LHP Steve Calhoun was credited with the loss. Calhoun gave up three runs off two hits in two innings of work on the mound.

MSU pitcher Jake Lowery retired all seven Rocket hitters that he faced Tuesday. Jeff Kinley took over for Lowery with two outs in the eighth. He ended the inning with a groundout, and pitched a perfect ninth to earn his seventh save of the season.

MSU’s Joe Mockbee made his first career start against the Rockets, going 3.33 innings and allowing one run off two hits with two strikeouts and two walks.

The loss drops Toledo to 15-23 heading into Wednesday’s matchup with Dayton.

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