Falcons Break Record For Best Home Start In Program History With 26-5 Win Over Ohio

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University baseball team erupted for another high-scoring output Saturday (April 20), topping the Ohio Bobcats 26-5 on Alumni Day at Steller Field. The win gives the Falcons the second-best MAC start in BGSU Athletics history at 17-0 while also breaking the best home start in program history at 10-0. The record-setting day continued for BGSU, drawing 15 walks as a team to match the program record for walks in a game that the team set last season on the road at Oakland.

Ohio jumped on the board first with three runs in the top of the first, but a BGSU response quickly came to tie the game at 3-3 after one. OU reclaimed the lead at 4-3 with a top of the third run, but BGSU tallied 14 runs over the third and fourth to push ahead 17-4. BGSU added a pair in the sixth, five in the seventh and two more in the eighth to secure the 26-5 final, marking the second time this season BGSU has eclipsed the 25-run mark in a game.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Four soft-hit singles in a row for Ohio in the top of the first put three runs on the board for them, jumping out a 3-0 lead.
Two Falcon singles from Nathan Archer and Garrett Wright gave the Falcons the corners with no one out in the bottom half. Following a walk from DJ Newman the bases were loaded with no outs. Tyler Ross was able to put one on the board with a sacrifice fly to right.
Jack Krause followed Ross by drawing a walk to load the bases again. A hit by pitch for Leighton Banjoff put a second run up for the Falcons, forcing home Wright. A bloop single for TJ Takats extended his on-base streak to 22 and tied the game for the Falcons at 3-3 with Newman scoring.
In the second with a Bobcat runner on first, a bouncer up the middle was stopped by Nic Good as he delivered a strike to Tyler Ross as he came over the bag at second to throw out the OU runner at first to end the half inning with a double play.
A home run from Ohio's Gideon Antle broke the tie in the top of the third. BGSU turned their second double play of the game to get out of the third with one Bobcat left on base and the score at 4-3.
Newman and Krause singled to start the bottom of the third with Banjoff driving in his second RBI of the game on a bouncer to short to tie the game, 4-4.
Takats was hit by a pitch before Landon Roque and Caden Parker each logged RBI singles to push the score to 6-4.
Archer then etched his name into the Falcon record book yet again with a three-run home run as the Falcons extended the lead to five with a 9-4 tally.
The Falcons kept the pedal down in the fourth innings. Following two singles from Newman and Ross and a walk to Banjoff, Takats singled down the third base line driving in Ross and Newman. Then a frozen rope to center from Roque singled in Banjoff while a single from Caden Parker scored Takats for a 13-4 lead.
For the second time on the day Archer crushed a three-run home run that drove in both Roque and Parker, stretching the BGSU lead to 16-4.
After batting around,Krause in his second at bat of the fourth inning singled in Garrett Wright with a knock to left, sending the teams to the fifth inning with a 17-4 BGSU lead.
Another turned double play for Ross got the Falcons out of the top half of the fifth with the score remaining.
After a strong outing from Nic Good, going five innings for the Orange and Brown, Calvin Mitchell came in relief of the starter. Mitchell was accompanied by a handful of offensive and defensive subs over the next inning for BGSU.
Cooper McKenzie came in for Wright as a pinch hitter and drew a walk. The same result came for Zack Horky stepping in for Newman. The run of subs continued with David Silva coming in for Ross, delivering an RBI single up the middle to score McKenzie.
Gavin Ganun came in for Krause and drew another walk that was followed by a Banjoff sacrifice fly bringing the 19th run of the game home for BGSU, leading 19-4.
Following walks from Parker, Archer, and McKenzie to begin the seventh inning, Silva added his second RBI on the day with a bases-loaded walk to push home Parker.
In the very next at-bat, Ganun doubled in two more for the Falcons with Archer and McKenzie scoring.
After an Ohio pitching change, Banjoff drove in his fourth and fifth RBIs on the day with a double down the third base line, bringing home Silva and Ganun for a 24-4 advantage.
In the top of the eighth the Bobcats got their first run since the third inning, scoring on a sacrifice fly to left center.
Parker led off the BGSU half of the eighth with a double before Archer reached on a dropped third strike. Thanks to a McKenzie single, a Horky walk brought in Parker while a fielder's choice off the bat of Silva brought in Archer making the lead 26-5 for the eventual final.
Luke Krouse came in to close out the ninth, logging three-straight outs to secure the victory.

STAT LEADERS

Nic Good: W (3-2), 5.0 IP, 7 H, 4R/ER, 3 K
Calvin Mitchell: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R/ER, 1 K
Perry Miller: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R/ER, 1 K
Luke Krouse: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R/ER
Nathan Archer: 3-for-6, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 5 R, 1 BB
Caden Parker: 3-for-5, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 4 R, 1 BB
Leighton Banjoff: 1-for-3, 1 2B, 5 RBI, 1 R 2 BB
Gavin Ganun: 1-for-2, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB
David Silva: 1-for-2, 3 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB
TJ Takats: 2-for-3, 3 RBI, 2 R
DJ Newman: 2-for-3, 3 R, 1 BB
Jack Krause: 2-for-3, 1 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB
Landon Roque: 2-for-6, 2 RBI, 2 R
Cooper McKenzie: 1-for-1, 2 R, 2 BB

FALCON STAT FACTS

Bowling Green broke the program record for the best home start in program history, moving to 10-0 when playing at Steller Field.
With the win, the Falcons are now 17-0 in the MAC, the second-best MAC start in program history trailing only BGSU Volleyball's 18-0 start in 2020-21.
As a team, Bowling Green drew 15 walks, matching the program record for walks in a game that the team set last year at Oakland.
The Falcons brought 14 different players to the plate with all 14 reaching base at least once. Additionally, 13 of the 14 scored at least once for the Falcons.
As a team, Bowling Green has now scored 7+ runs in 25 games this season and 10+ runs in 17 of their 33 contests.
Nathan Archer hit two home runs in the game, bringing his season total to 14 and his career total to 31. Archer is now tied for 10th all-time for home runs in a single season and tied for eighth all-time for career home runs. Archer also now has a five-game hitting streak and has a hit in 14 of the last 15 games.
Jack Krause finished the game with a pair of hits and a walk, continuing his on-base streak to 23 games for the Orange and Brown. Krause has drawn a walk in eight-straight games.
TJ Takats knocked two hits in the games to extend his on-base streak as well, now at 22 games for the Falcons.
DJ Newman extended his team-leading hitting streak to 10 games with a single to centerfield in the bottom of the third.
Leighton Banjoff registered an RBI double in the game to push his hitting streak to six games. Tyler Ross tallied a base hit as well, also with a six-game hitting streak.
Banjoff also has a 10-game on-base streak and has scored in nine-straight games for the Falcons.
Caden Parker has logged an RBI in six-straight games for Bowling Green, totaling nine over the six-game stretch.
Garrett Wright extended his streak of five games with both a hit and run scored. Over the five-game stretch, Wright has 12 hits and 13 runs scored.
This is the second time this season BGSU has surpassed the 20-run mark, logging a nation-leading 34 in a win over Ball State on March 16.

UP NEXT
The series between Bowling Green and Ohio will conclude on Saturday (April 21) with a 1 p.m. start. The Falcons will then wrap up their homestand on Wednesday (April 24) against the Dayton Flyers with a 3 p.m. first pitch.

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