ANN ARBOR, Mich. – For the second-straight season, the Oakland Golden Grizzlies traveled to Ray Fisher Stadium and left with a victory over the Wolverines, topping Michigan, 4-1, on Wednesday, March 8.

Having played every one of their contests away from home, Oakland improves to 3-8, while Wednesday was the 2023 home opener for Michigan, who falls to 4-8.

His third start of the year, redshirt senior right-hander Bryce Konitzer was terrific for the Golden Grizzlies, working a season-high five shutout innings and allowing just two hits while walking one and striking out six.

Graduate student lefty Christian Stelling handled the sixth and seventh and senior Noah Stants and junior Brandon Decker, both righties, took care of the last six outs.

Manning left field Wednesday with freshman Reggie Bussey playing center, redshirt sophomore Drew Collins led Oakland at the dish, going 2-3 and starting the scoring by plating redshirt senior third baseman Luke Malmanger with a triple in the second inning.

Collins would score on this play himself on an error to give the Golden Grizzlies a 2-0 lead and they upped to it 3-0 in the third when graduate student first baseman Gabe Lux scored on a double to center field off the bat of senior right fielder Ian Cleary.

Extending the margin to 4-0, Collins knocked in his second run of the day in the ninth and the Wolverines tallied their only run in their final turn at-bat when senior left fielder Tito Flores, a Brother Rice Warriors graduate, homered.



UP NEXT
Rounding out their stretch of consecutive road games before their Tuesday, March 14 home opener against the Bowling Green Falcons, Oakland will head to Evansville to play the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles in three games from Friday-Sunday, March 10-12.

A member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC), the Screaming Eagles are 5-7 and will enter Friday on a four-game losing streak.