Falcons Come Up Short In Offensive Battle With Huskies

Sunday, March 29

DeKalb, Ill.

2 p.m. EST

Bowling Green State University

8-17, 4-8

Northern Illinois

16-8, 8-4

Bowling Green

Northern Ill.

Photo by: Hailey Pettit-Mastroianni, BGSU Athletics

March 29, 2026 | Baseball

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BGSU Tallies Season-High 16 Hits, Including Two Triples

By: by Kyle Edmond, BGSU Athletics

DeKALB, Ill. – The Bowling Green State University baseball team closed out the weekend series against Northern Illinois on Sunday (March 29). The Falcons tallied a season-high 16 hits in the game, producing eight runs, but the Huskies responded in similar fashion with 13 hits and 12 runs for a 12-8 final score in favor of NIU. All 10 players to log a plate appearance for Bowling Green reached base at least once and all nine starters knocked a hit with five logging multiple. Following the outcome, the Falcons will now return home to Steller Field for nine of their next 10 games.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Northern Illinois tallied a pair of runs in the bottom of the first to take a 2-0 lead.
Lance Vickers registered the first hit for the Falcons with a two-out single to left center in the top of the second. Anthony Mitta followed with a double down the right field line, but Vickers was thrown out at home trying to score to conclude the inning.
The Huskies added two more runs in the second to push the score to 4-0.
In the third inning, Zack Horky led off with a single before stealing second. Griffin Scheiderer brought him home with a triple to left field, putting the Falcons on the board with a 1-0 score.
Carter Mottice followed with a double down the left field line, bringing Scheiderer home. Sam Seidel kept the hot streak going at the plate with a double to right center, trading places with Mottice for another run. A wild pitch pushed Seidel up to third before a TJ Takats single scored Seidel for a 4-4 tie.
Brayden Curlis continued the hit parade with a single down the left field line, scoring Takats to push the Falcons to a 5-4 lead and prompt a pitching change for NIU.
Northern Illinois tallied a run in the bottom of the fourth to tie the score at 5-5. Another run for the Huskies in the fifth granted NIU a 6-5 lead before a solo home run in the sixth made it 7-5.
The Falcons answered in the top of the seventh. Takats legged out a triple to right field, setting up an RBI from Andrew DiLodovico to cut the score down to 7-6.
The back-and-forth continued in the bottom of the seventh with NIU recording five runs for a 12-6 score.
The Falcons again responded. Horky began the eighth with a single to right followed by a walk to Scheiderer with both moving up on a grounder. A wild pitch was enough to score both, cutting the score down to 12-8.

STAT LEADERS

Brayden Curlis: 3-for-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 HBP
Lance Vickers: 3-for-5
Griffin Scheiderer: 2-for-2, 1 3B, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB
TJ Takats: 2-for-5, 1 3B, 2 R, 1 RBI
Zack Horky: 2-for-5, 2 R
Carter Mottice: 1-for-5, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 R
Sam Seidel: 1-for-5, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 R
Andrew Heffernan: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R/ER, 1 K

FALCON STAT FACTS

As a team, the Falcons tallied a season-high 16 hits, the most since logging 18 against Ball State last season on April 19. Each Falcon that started the game logged at least one hit and all 10 with a plate appearance reached base at least once.
Griffin Scheiderer and TJ Takats both hit triples in the game for Bowling Green, marking the first multi-triple game for BGSU since March 2, 2025 against Southern Illinois.
For Takats, he finished with a two-hit day to give him six hits in his last four games. During that stretch, Takats has two doubles, a triple, three RBI and three runs scored.
Brayden Curlis had a strong day at the plate, logging his first three-hit day of the season. Curlis added a double, an RBI and a hit-by-pitch to his stat line.
Lance Vickers recorded a season-high three hits for the Falcons, his first three-hit game in the Orange and Brown and second multi-hit game.
Andrew DiLodovico tallied a hit in the third inning Bowling Green, extending his team-leading on-base streak to nine games.
Carter Mottice ripped a double in the third inning for BGSU, giving him a five-game hitting streak, now second on the team behind Brady Birchmeier's six-game stretch.

UP NEXT
BGSU will return home for nine of their next 10 games, beginning on Tuesday (March 31) with Oakland at 3 p.m. Any schedule changes will be announced on BGSUFalcons.com as well as Twitter/X (@BGSU_Baseball).

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