KALAMAZOO, Mich. - The Kalamazoo College baseball team won its 11th straight game, defeating Alma College 8-3 at home Friday afternoon. The win over the second-place Scots also gives the Hornets a three-game advantage in the MIAA standings.
Alma got on the board first with a run in the top of the first. Kalamazoo scored six runs in the bottom of the second, highlighted by a 2-run single by Cooper Mills and a 2-run double by Ryar Rinehart.
Logan Lockhart drew a bases loaded walk in the fourth to make it 7-1 in favor of Kalamazoo. Harrison Poeszat homered to left field in the fifth to put the Hornets up 8-1.
Alma scored two in the top of the eighth before a ground out and striekout ended the threat. Brenden Oprinski retired all three Scots in the ninth to end the game.
Kalamazoo scored eight runs on 12 hits. Alma scored three runs on six hits.
David Stechow had three hits including a double and an RBI.
Tanner Hawkins and Robert Newland each had two hits. Mills and Rinehart each drove in two runs.
Thomas Sylvester earned his seventh win of the season (7-1), allowing one run on four hits in five innings.
Chase Cummins pitched two innings of scoreless relief. Oprinski did not allow a base runner in the ninth.
Kalamazoo and Alma are scheduled to complete the series with a doubleheader at Alma on Sunday beginning at 1 p.m.