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By Tom Ramstetter, NKU Sports Information FLORENCE, Ky. --- Northern Kentucky University ran its winning streak to four games with a 3-2 win over Wisconsin-Parkside Sunday before dropping a 4-3 decision in the second game for a doubleheader split. The Norse won three of the four games against Parkside over the weekend. The win was Parkside’s first in the Great Lakes Valley Conference as they improved to 4-34 overall and 1-26 in the GLVC. NKU is now 28-20, 18-9. Todd Lorenz went the distance for Parkside in Game 2, scattering eight hits and allowing three runs in nine innings. Cameron Betourne allowed four second-inning runs and lasted only an inning and a third as he fell to 0-3. Andy Heston, Kevin Jordan, and Matt Winterhalter combined to shut out the Rangers the rest of the way, but NKU could only plate two in the fourth and one in the fifth to fall short of the comeback. Kevin Dusold doubled in a run and Larry Pempek had an RBI-single in the fourth and Jeff Bohlen had a run-scoring single in the fifth to account for the Norse’s runs. Eric Braekel threw six strong innings, allowing two runs, one earned, on eight hits to improve to 3-4 in Game 1. Winterhalter pitched a scoreless seventh for his first save of the season. Dusold had a run-scoring single in the first to plate NKU’s first run. In the fourth, the Norse broke a 1-1 tie when Brad Johnson scored on a wild pitch and Bohlen stole home during a failed pickoff-attempt at first base. The Norse, entrenched in third place in the GLVC East Division, will host West Division-leading Southern Indiana for a twin-bill Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Champion Window Field before finishing the season on the road with a pair of weekend doubleheaders against East-leading Saint Joseph’s in Rensselaer, Ind. |
