Hope wins suspended game vs. Adrian

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Due to an umpire's injury, the Hope College at Adrian College baseball game on Friday was suspended in the eighth inning with the score tied at 4-4.

The game will resume on Monday, April 18, at Hope's Boeve Stadium at a time to be determined. It will be played before the teams' scheduled 2 p.m. doubleheader.

Senior Spencer Cable (Hudsonville, Michigan / Hudsonville) will be at-bat for the Flying Dutchmen with the bases loaded and one out.

The game was stopped at that point at Adrian after a pitch that hit the Flying Dutchmen's Al Money (Midland, Michigan / Midland) richoted off the mask of the home-plate umpire and knocked him to the ground. He could not continue.

Money's hit-by-pitch scored sophomore Robbie Stuursma (East Grand Rapids, Michigan / East Grand Rapids) for Hope's second run of the inning. 

Two batters earlier, senior Grant Barrett (Chelsea, Michigan / Chelsea) singled home senior Brant Kym (Libertyville, Illinois / Libertyville) after Kym was hit by a pitch to open the inning and advanced to a third when the Bulldogs misplayed Stuursma's grounder for an error.

Hope and Adrian traded runs in the seventh. Senior Evan Maday (Grand Rapids, Michigan / East Kentwood) was hit by pitch with two outs and the bases loaded. Dylan Johnson's RBI double off reliever Owen Krizan (Grand Haven, Michigan / Grand Haven) extended Adrian's lead to 4-2.

Maday's sixth-inning home run put the Flying Dutchmen on the board. 

Adrian took an early 3-0 lead with a first-inning RBI single and a pair of RBI singles in the fourth.