IRVINE, Calif. - The Regis University baseball team, after a long off season, finally returned to action. The team opened their season by traveling to sunny California to take on the Concordia University Eagles in a four-game series. Tonight, in the opener, Regis couldn't quite get the bats going on the chilly evening in Irvine. RU fell, 6-2, after registering two hits.
How it Happened: The Eagles had an electric first inning with four runs off three hits with senior
Justin Kleinsorge (0-1) on the mound for the Rangers. Later on in the fourth inning, with CUI up 4-0, Regis finally got on the board when graduate student
Kyle Koontz made his way around the diamond after being walked. Koontz, planted on third, scored the run with a bases juiced hit by pitch which made the score 4-1.
In the bottom of the fifth inning and one out, the Eagles plated another run when they hit a double down the right field line. Head Coach
Drew LaComb sent in senior
Michael May to relieve Kleinsorge and promptly ended the inning. Following that, graduate student
Roger Riley scored the Rangers' second run of the evening on a sac fly after originally getting on base when he singled up the middle.
CUI would get another two runs on the board in the bottom of the sixth, but that was all she wrote for opening day. In the end, Regis fell to the Eagles, 6-2.
Game Notes: The Rangers scored two runs off two hits and had three errors. CUI plated six runs off six hits and had no errors.
Following May, sophomore
Logan Deskin and freshman
Colton Wuelfing made appearances for Regis on the mound. Neither allowed a run.
Koontz and Riley had Regis' two hits. They were both 1-3 at the plate.
Riley had a game-high 14 putouts.
Up Next for the Rangers: The two teams will run it back tomorrow at 6 p.m. MST.
