By Steve Marovich, Athletics Staff Writer/2022 Baseball Contact

The Carthage College baseball team (10-22, 4-9 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) lost to non-conference opponent Concordia University (Chicago, 13-17), 5-1, on Tuesday, April 26 at Augie Schmidt Field in Kenosha, Wis.

Concordia scored a pair of runs in the first inning without the benefit of hit, using instead a walk, two hit batters, a sacrifice fly and a double steal.  A three-run sixth inning gave the Cougars a 5-0 lead.  Michael Zavoli hit an RBI-single in the sixth, and Garry Maynard followed with a two-run single.

It was a bullpen game for both head coaches.  Zach Litke (4-2) started for Concordia and worked the first two innings, three pitchers later, Carthage's Bryce Prybylinski broke up a combined no-hit bid with a one-out single in the seventh inning.  The Firebirds got on the scoreboard only in the ninth inning when Prybylinski hit a sacrifice fly for the final, 5-1 margin.  Vincent Sartori, the sixth-of-six Cougar hurlers, got the final three outs in the ninth to earn his first save of the season. 

Matt Willett (0-1), the first-of-five Carthage pitchers, took the loss.  Willett worked the first two and two-thirds innings.  James Lindenmuth entered the game in the third, Trey Zastrow in the sixth, P.J. Moser in the seventh and Nathan Schnabel in the ninth.

Cody Tostrud doubled in the ninth, one of only three hits for the Firebirds, to extend his current hitting streak to 12 games.  Tostrud opened the season with a 16-game hit streak.

Carthage travels to Eureka, Ill., on Sunday, May 1 to play Eureka College (15-17) in a Noon doubleheader at Henry Sand Field.