Box Score


For five innings, the story of the night for Dallas Baptist (19-15, 6-4) was their starting pitcher, Jake Johansen. The Allen, Texas, product was nearly unhittable for the first half of the game and allowed the Patriot offense to stake him to an early seven run lead on their way to an 8-4 win over conference rival Seattle (11-21, 2-7). Six different Patriots had multi-hit games, led by Nash Knight with three safeties and Justin Wall with four RBI, as the Patriot offense pounded out fifteen hits on the evening.
 
The Patriots opened the scoring in the second when Duncan McAlpine and Austin Listi led off the inning with singles and Knight doubled down the rightfield line to pick up an early RBI. They would add four runs to that cushion in the fourth and two more in the fifth. In the fourth, Justin Wall had a three-run homerun and KJ Alexander a solo shot. The Patriots strung together three hits in the fifth and scored the pair of runs on an RBI fielder's choice by Wall and an infield single by Knight to push the lead to 7-0 through five innings.
 
Johansen had it on cruise control until the sixth when the Redhawks scored three runs. A single, a couple wild pitches, and a two-run homerun from Nate Roberts cut the DBU lead to four runs in that frame as Johansen scuffled for the first time all night. A strikeout looking would get him out of the inning and strand two runners.
 
In the seventh, Seattle would claw their way through the inning to score another run. A two-out walk was followed by two singles and a third walk to load the bases with one run across. Johansen, however, would snake his way away from further damage once again, this time with a groundball to RJ Talamantes at second base. In all Johansen, would finish the night with seven complete innings, seven hits allowed and four earned runs. The righthander collected five strikeouts and walked three.
 
In the eighth, Ronnie Mitchell homered to rightfield to increase the DBU lead once again to four runs with three outs to get and Michael Smith closed out the game to pick up his third save of the season as he had entered in the eighth inning when the lead was still three runs.
 
Dallas Baptist and Seattle will resume the three-game series on Friday afternoon with matinee baseball. Cy Sneed will throw the first pitch at 3:00 pm and fans can catch all the action at dbupatriots.com/showcase with live audio and live video.