Chicago, Ill. – For the first time in the 2022 campaign, Oakland did not win a Horizon League series, falling to the UIC Flames, 2-1, on Sunday, April 10.
Paired with the programs splitting a doubleheader on Saturday, the Flames took two of three in the series.
The Golden Grizzlies now stand at an even 15-15 this season, with a 7-5 mark in league play. UIC, meanwhile, is 9-16 (3-3).
Redshirt senior right-hander
Jacob Wosinski took the loss for Oakland on Sunday, dropping him to 2-3 this season.
Wosinski's final line was not bad, however, as the 6-foot-8, 215-pounder worked five innings, allowing two runs on four hits with two walks and three strikeouts. He was economical, too, needing just 67 pitches to record these 15 outs, an average of fewer than 14 per inning.
Graduate student lefty
Chas Sagedahl was able to tally the first two outs in the sixth, and classmate
Quinton Kujawa, a righty, handled the final seven outs.
Offensively, the Golden Grizzlies were held to four hits, with graduate student second baseman
Brad Goulet and redshirt junior shortstop
Thomas Green both collecting two.
For Goulet, who drove in Oakland's lone run with a first-inning home run to left field, the 2-3 day extends his hit streak to nine games.
Courtesy of Goulet's third home run of the season, the Golden Grizzlies would hold this 1-0 advantage until the fifth inning, when sophomore third baseman Rayth Petersen plated a pair of Flames with a single to left.
For the second consecutive game, Oakland ran into some terrific starting pitching, as UIC right-hander Cristian Lopez, a graduate student, struck out 10 over seven innings of four-hit, one-run, two-walk baseball.
Senior righty Tanner Shears shut the door by recording the last six outs.
Up next
Looking to move back above the .500 mark, the Golden Grizzlies will return to action on Tuesday, April 12 when the Mid-American Conference's (MAC) Central Michigan Chippewas come to Rochester at 2:30 p.m.
Oakland is 2-0 against MAC opponents this season, having previously defeated the Eastern Michigan Eagles and Bowling Green Falcons on March 22 and April 5, respectively.
