| Final (10) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | |
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Saint Xavier (IL) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 |
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Olivet Nazarene (IL) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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Olivet Nazarene (IL) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
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St. Francis (IL) | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 10 | 14 | 1 |
JOLIET, Ill. — The season came to an end for the Olivet Nazarene University baseball team on Thursday night. Entering the double-elimination tournament as the #2-seed, the Tigers' run came to an end after back to back losses at Slammers Stadium.
Olivet 4, Saint Xavier 6 (10 innings)
The Tigers put together a gritty, late comeback but ultimately fell 6–4 in 10 innings to Saint Xavier in the second round of the CCAC Tournament at Slammers Stadium.
Olivet showed resilience after trailing most of the afternoon, erasing a two-run deficit in the eighth inning. Jude Coursey delivered the biggest swing of the day for ONU, ripping a two-out triple to center field that scored Tyler Kavanagh and Luke Nicholaus to knot the game at 4–4. In the fourth inning, Troy Vosburgh doubled to right center and drove in Kydin Horvath, while Mason Bogan scored in the fifth inning after a failed pickoff attempt.
On the mound, Tyler Snoreck battled through five innings, working around traffic and limiting Saint Xavier to three runs despite issuing five walks. Owen Roberts followed with five innings of relief and kept ONU in the game, but Saint Xavier pushed across a pair of runs in the 10th on a sacrifice fly and an RBI double to decide the contest.
The Tigers were led by Coursey who finished with two RBIs in the contest while Nicholaus added one run on two hits.
Olivet 3, St. Francis 10
A rough opening inning put Olivet in an early hole, and the Tigers were unable to recover in a 10–3 loss to St. Francis (Ill.) on Thursday night in the CCAC Tournament.
St. Francis scored four runs in the first inning and never looked back. Olivet struggled to generate offense and scattered four hits over nine innings. The Tigers' best chances came late, breaking through in the sixth and seventh innings after falling behind by nine.
Jacob York provided a spark in the sixth by scoring on Mason Bogan's RBI single, and ONU added two more in the seventh. York followed with a sacrifice fly to bring home Jude Coursey, and Troy Vosburgh stole home later in the inning to trim the deficit to 10–3. Vosburgh finished with a stolen base and later crossed the plate on the double steal.
Camden Kearney gave Olivet Nazarene a steady effort in relief, limiting St. Francis to one run over 4.2 innings, but the early deficit proved too much to overcome.
The Tigers finish the year 28-22 overall and 23-9 in conference play.
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