ADRIAN, Mich.– The #10 Kalamazoo College baseball team split a doubleheader at #23 College Saturday to maintain first place in the MIAA. The Hornets lost game one, 4-1, ending the program-record 16-game winning streak, before winning game two, 13-8.

Game One – Adrian 4, Kalamazoo 1
The first game of the day was a pitcher's duel as Logan Lockhart and Adrian's Landon Kozlowski kept both team off the board through the first seven innings. Lockhart scattered five hits and one walk, striking out six batters.

Adrian got the bats going in the bottom of the eighth for four runs. Jackson Isaacs led off the ninth with a single, and JT Hill pinch ran for him and scored on Jack Friesen's single, but the Hornets' rally came up short.

Game Two – Kalamazoo 13, Adrian 8
Kalamazoo started fast in game two, scoring three runs in the top of the first. The Bulldogs answered with two in the second and one in the third to tie the score, 3-3.

Back-to-back doubles by Robert Newland and Ryar Rinehart put the Hornets on top in the top of the fifth inning, with Kalamazoo going on to score four in the inning for a 7-3 lead. Alex Fenkell walloped a three-run homer in the sixth to push the advantage to 10-3.

Adrian notched one run in the bottom of the eighth, but the Hornets responded with three more in the ninth. The Bulldogs pushed four runs across in the bottom half, but the comeback fell short.

Fenkell and Cade Preissing had four hits each, with Fenkell's five RBIs leading all players. Rinehart added three runs and three RBI in the winning effort.

Carson Orvis (4-0) earned the win, throwing six innings and allowing three runs on seven hits and no walks with six strikeouts.

Kalamazoo (25-3, 9-1) heads back home to finish the series against Adrian (19-7, 7-3) Sunday at 2 p.m. at Woodworth Field.