BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. — Michigan State baseball continued its OneSpartanburg, Inc. Baseball Classic action with a 7-3 loss at Gardner-Webb Saturday afternoon at GWU’s Bill Masters Field at John Henry Moss Stadium.
The loss slides MSU to 1-1 in the weekend action after a 13-6 win at USC Upstate on Friday. Michigan State is now 4-2 on the season. GWU moved to 2-0 on the weekend with both wins coming against Big Ten Conference opponents after a 6-2 win over Northwestern Friday, as part of now 3-4 overall on the season.
“I didn’t think we particularly swung the bat well today, obviously as we’ve done in the past few games,” MSU head coach Jake Boss Jr. said. “You’ve got to credit their left-hander starter (Tyler Switalski) a little bit, he got us to chase some balls out of the strike zone with his breaking ball and that was unfortunate for us. But we just didn’t do enough to get ourselves back into the ballgame when we got down, and that was disappointing, but that’s the way the game is. We still have a chance to basically win the series tomorrow, so we need to play well and hopefully we can get that done.”
Saturday marked MSU’s sixth game since the mass shooting on the East Lansing campus on Monday, Feb. 13, when three MSU students were killed and five were hospitalized. Michigan State University canceled classes this week following the deaths of the three students – juniors Arielle Anderson and Alexandria Verner and sophomore Brian…
Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at Michigan State University Athletics…