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Early struggles doom YSU baseball team against Kent State
Penguins concede 8 runs in 4 innings as skid hits 14 games
Staff Report
KENT
Youngstown State conceded eight runs in the first four innings in a 10-5 loss to Kent State on Tuesday at the Golden Flashes’ Schoonover Stadium.
The Penguins are still seeking their first win and are mired in a 14-game losing streak.
In his first start of the season, Zach Lopatka gave up six earned runs on five hits and three walks in two innings. YSU got on the board in the third inning when Champion graduate Lucas Nasonti came home on Blaze Glenn’s suicide squeeze. Then Kent State’s Pavin Parks hit a solo home run off reliever Cade Negley.
Nasonti was the Penguin’s most productive hitters, going 3 for 5 with two runs scored. Glenn collected three RBIs and Trevor Wiersma added a solo home run in the seventh inning.
Kent State’s Peyton Deats got the win, allowing a run on two hits and five walks with a strikeout while working the first three innings.
The only YSU pitcher to not give up any runs was West Branch graduate Kip DeShields, collected three strikeouts, two walks and a struck batter in the eighth inning.
Neither of Kent State’s (5-10) players from the Mahoning Valley — Champion’s Michael Turner and Western Reserve’s Wyatt Larimer — participated in Tuesday’s game.