Bobcats Drop a pair to Henry Ford

It was a very long, very cold, very frustrating Sunday for the Bobcats as they dropped both ends of their first home double header 11-1 and 18-8. 
Tylor Wolfe led the way offensively for the Bobcats as he finished the day 3-5 with two singles and his first homerun on the season.

Justin Simons got the start for the Bobcats in game one and worked the first three and third innings surrendering 5 runs (4 earned) on 6 hits while striking out 6.The Bobcats had a rally going in the third after Tylor Wolfe singled and John Costella doubled putting men at second and third with one out. Riley Day would ground out to score Wolfe, but another ground out would end the scoring threat for the Bobcats. Simons would run into some trouble in the fourth and get relieved by Joseph Mouch who would record a big strikeout to send the Bobcats into the bottom of the inning only trailing 5-1. The Hawks ran away with it in the fifth behind five hits including a 2 run homerun to score 6 runs and take home the victory in five innings 11-1. 

Game two was more tightly contested as the Bobcats, for the second day in a row, had an offensive outburst to start the second game of a double header. In the bottom of the first already trailing 1-0 after a few defensive miscues in the top of the inning spotted the Hawks a run, the Bobcat bats got hot. Tylor Wolfe started things off with a 1 out line drive home run over the trees behind the fence in left field to tie the ball game back up at 1. After a few walks and another Johnny Costella knock, a balk scored one run and a Kenny Nickson single through the left side drove in another to put the Bobcats up 3-1 after the first. Christian Boyles got the start on the mound for the Bobcats and put in a strong effort working around some defensive miscues giving up 8 runs (0 earned), on 3 hits and 3 walks while striking out 7 in three and third innings of work. The bullpen would struggle with walks in relief of Boyles and the defense continued to give the Hawks second chances as 6 runs came across to score in the fourth inning making the score 9-4. The Bobcats would answer with 4 runs of their own in the bottom of the inning as doubles by Dominic Daring, Charles Jackson III, and Dylan Cutler would fuel the 4 run rally making the game 9-8. The defensive woes would continue however as the Bobcats surrendered 7 more runs to the Hawks in the fifth on some timely hitting complemented by four free passes and two more errors by the Bobcats. The Bobcats failed to answer the Hawks big inning and surrendered a few more runs late to drop this one by a final of 18-8.

They are back in action Wednesday in a double header at Owens Community College.