Marian University baseball (2-3, 0-0 NACC) fell to Rose-Hulman 9-8 before a couple of days off at the RussMatt Invitational.
 

• The Fightin’ Engineers had a strong start scoring three runs in the first inning.
• Rose-Hulman took a 4-0 lead in the top of the third before Marian plated a pair in the bottom half.
• A stolen base followed by an error helped put Marian on the board before junior Marc Jones drove in a run with a sacrifice fly to cut the RHIT lead in half.
• Rose-Hulman had a response rebuilding its lead back to 6-2 in the top of the fourth.
• Marian battled back cutting the deficit to one in the fifth when junior Lucas Lemons drew a bases-loaded walk to bring home a run and junior Will Strehl brought home two runs with a single.
• The Sabres then took advantage of an error in the bottom half of the eighth to tie the game at 6-6.
• A strong start to the top of the ninth allowed RHIT to plate three runs.
• A home run from junior Jason Sims sparked a comeback in the ninth as Marian was able to trail by just one at 9-8.
• The Sabres were able to get the tying run in scoring position only for a strikeout to end the game.

• Marian finished with an 11-10 advantage in hits for the game.
• The Sabres had two errors and RHIT had five errors.
• The top three hitters in the RHIT lineup had multiple hits.
• The three to six hitters in the Sabre lineup accounted for seven hits.
• This was the first meeting between the two teams.

	Junior Jason Sims finished 3-for-5 including the first home run of his career.
	Freshman Ben Anderson provided 4.0 innings of relief allowing only one hit.
	Junior Will Strehl drove in two runs as part of a 2-for-4 day.