DAVENPORT, Fla. – The St. Olaf College baseball team dropped a high-scoring 13-7 affair to non-conference foe Kalamazoo College on Saturday afternoon at Northeast Regional Park.
St. Olaf (3-5) trailed just 5-3 in the sixth inning before Kalamazoo (10-5) scored eight unanswered runs to open up a 10-run lead. Junior
Joey Glampe, junior
Sam Lavin, and first year
Frank Lavin all had multi-hit games for the Oles offensively, but St. Olaf was plagued by eight errors in the loss.
Glampe had his first multi-hit game of the season by going 3-for-5 with a double, a run, and one RBI.
Sam Lavin logged his third two-hit game this year and scored a run, while
Frank Lavin was 2-for-5 with a double and a pair of RBI.
After falling behind 2-0 in the first half inning, St. Olaf got RBI doubles from Frankl Lavin and sophomore
Evan Hammonds in the first and second innings to tie the game at 2-2. Kalamazoo scored single runs in the next three innings to build a 5-2 lead in the middle innings.
First year
Brendan Goldman brought the Oles within two runs at 5-3 with a run-scoring infield single in the bottom of the sixth. The next eight runs the Hornets scored were all unearned, as Kalamazoo took advantage of an error in the seventh and four more errors in the eighth.
The Oles scored twice in the eighth and two more in the ninth to account for the six-run margin. Goldman knocked in another run with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth before
Frank Lavin and Glampe plated runs with hits in the ninth.
St. Olaf wraps up its Florida trip with single games against Augustana College (Ill.), starting with an 11 a.m. CDT start on Sunday, March 26.