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Shawn Rigsby
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Parkside PARKSIDE 6-21, 5-9-1 GLIAC
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Winner Grand Valley State GV 12-19-1, 2-13 GLIAC
Parkside PARKSIDE
6-21, 5-9-1 GLIAC
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Final
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Grand Valley State GV
12-19-1, 2-13 GLIAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Parkside PARKSIDE 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 2
Grand Valley State GV 1 1 3 0 1 1 X 7 10 0

W: Michael Morelli (2-0) L: Schneider, Peyton (2-5)

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Parkside PARKSIDE 6-22, 2-14 GLIAC
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Winner Grand Valley State GV 13-19-1, 6-9-1 GLIAC
Parkside PARKSIDE
6-22, 2-14 GLIAC
8
Final
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Grand Valley State GV
13-19-1, 6-9-1 GLIAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Parkside PARKSIDE 0 0 1 4 1 1 0 0 1 8 11 2
Grand Valley State GV 0 1 2 0 2 1 1 1 1 9 15 0

W: Brendan Nearing (1-0) L: Cusimano , Aaron (0-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

GVSU Takes Both Games from Parkside

Parkside baseball finished out its series at Grand Valley State on Saturday, where the Lakers managed to take both games from the Rangers. GVSU won game one 7-1 and won game two 9-8 on a walkoff sacrifice fly. 

GAME 1: Grand Valley State 7, Parkside 1
Ricky West had a big game, going 3-for-3 with a double and an RBI, but Parkside left seven runners on base and were charged with a pair of errors.
 
GVSU was up 6-0 before Parkside got on the scoreboard in the top of the sixth inning. The Lakers scored one in the first, one in the second, three in the third and another in the fifth. In Parkside's scoring inning, Casey Oliver and Dominic Esposito led off with back-to-back singles. After Oliver was thrown out at home, West singled through the right side to bring Esposito home.
 
Along with West, Shawn Rigsby, Esposito and Eisenmenger all tallied hits while Peyton Schneider was charged with the loss.
 
GAME 2: Grand Valley State 9, Parkside 8
In a game that went back and forth from the start, Esposito hit a game-tying home run in the top of the ninth inning, but the Lakers used a walkoff sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth to end it.
 
Parkside trailed 3-1 after three innings, but the Rangers used a big four-run fourth inning to take a 5-3 advantage. In the fourth, Parkside manufactured runs on an RBI fielder's choice by Niko Diaz, a Lane Ochs RBI single and a pair of walks by Shawn Rigsby and Kurt Mlachnik with the bases loaded. The Rangers made it a 6-3 game when a run scored on a double-play, but the Lakers scored a pair of runs to make it 6-5, followed by a Rigsby solo home run to make it 7-5 in the middle innings. GVSU added a run in the bottom of the sixth, then tied it at 7-7 in the seventh and finally took an 8-7 lead in the bottom of the eighth.
 
Esposito's solo home run tied it in the ninth, but the Lakers got the leadoff runner aboard in the ninth and brought him in to score.
 
Rigsby finished 2-for-3 with a double, a home run and three RBI while Esposito went 2-for-4 with a double, home run and two runs. Diaz went 2-for-4 with two runs while West followed up his big game with a 1-for-4 game.
 
WHAT'S NEXT
Parkside will take a quick trip south to Romeoville, Ill., to battle Lewis on Tuesday, April 16 in a doubleheader. The Rangers return home on next weekend with two doubleheaders against Wayne State on Friday and Saturday.
 
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