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Baseball - vs Bluffton
8
Bluffton BLUFFTON 2-10
9
Winner Otterbein OTTERBEI 9-8
Bluffton BLUFFTON
2-10
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Final
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Otterbein OTTERBEI
9-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Bluffton BLUFFTON 1 0 4 0 0 1 2 0 0 8 10 0
Otterbein OTTERBEI 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 2 2 9 12 4

W: Gruver, Noah (1-0) L: M. Becher (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Written by Wes Mayberry (Photo by Marvet Hejazin)

Ullom's walk-off homer sends Baseball to 9-8 win over Bluffton

WESTERVILLE — Senior Logan Ullom provided the heroics with a walk-off home run to give the Otterbein baseball team a 9-8 comeback victory over Bluffton on Wednesday. With a five-hit game, Ullom surpassed 100 career hits, and freshmen Calvin Mabry and Daniel Uhl also hit home runs in the game for the Cardinals.

The Basics
  • Records: Otterbein (9-8 overall), Bluffton (2-10 overall)
  • Venue: Fishbaugh Field - Westerville, Ohio
Otterbein Stat Leaders
  • Ullom led the Otterbein offense with five hits, including the home run, to go with two RBIs and three runs.
  • Mabry added a single and triple to his home run to go with four RBIs and two runs.
  • Senior Zac Taylor posted two hits, one RBI and one run.
  • Uhl tallied two RBIs and one run with his homer.
  • Senior Noah Gruver earned the win on the mound after pitching the final inning and recording two strikeouts.
Game Highlights
  • Bluffton built a 5-0 lead through the first three innings highlighted by a solo homer in the top of the first inning.
  • Uhl started the Cardinals' comeback with a two-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning.
  • The Beavers extended their lead to 6-2 with a run in the top of the sixth.
  • An RBI single from Taylor and two-run homer from Mabry brought Otterbein within one, 6-5, in the bottom of the sixth.
  • Bluffton again extended its lead, getting an RBI single and RBI walk for an 8-5 edge in the top of the seventh.
  • A 2-RBI triple from Mabry put the Cardinals back within one, 8-7, in the bottom of the eighth.
  • Gruver gave up one walk in the top of the ninth but had an otherwise clean outing, inducing two strikeouts and a flyout to keep the deficit at one.
  • In the bottom of the ninth, senior Max McCann was hit by a pitch with one out, and graduate student Caden Kirker was inserted as a pinch runner. Kirker stole second with two outs and Ullom at bat, and the senior delivered in the clutch with the walk-off two-run homer to left-center field.
  • Otterbein out-hit Bluffton by an 11-10 margin. Otterbein committed four errors to Bluffton's none.
Notables 
  • Named the OAC Player of the Year and CSC Second Team Academic All-America in 2024, graduate student Jamie Perebzak ranks fifth all-time at Otterbein in hits (210), fourth in doubles (47), 11th in home runs (20) and third in RBIs (175).
  • Ullom has 101 hits, 24 doubles and 46 RBIs in his Otterbein career. He has a team-high 29 hits and eight doubles this season. His home run was the third of his career.
  • Uhl's home run was the second of his career, and Mabry's homer was the first of his career.
  • Taylor has a team-high 18 RBIs on the season.
  • Head coach George Powell is in his 26th year at Otterbein and has an all-time record of 617-428-1 at the helm of the Cardinals. He is a six-time OAC Coach of the Year honoree and has coached the Cardinals to three OAC regular-season championships and six OAC Tournament titles.
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