Peyton Burgh getting ready to swing the baseball bat
Chris Kohley
7
Winner Adrian ADRIAN 7-4
5
North Central (Ill.) NCC 3-6
Winner
Adrian ADRIAN
7-4
7
Final
5
North Central (Ill.) NCC
3-6
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Adrian ADRIAN 0 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 7 12 0
North Central (Ill.) NCC 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 12 3

W: Ambrose Horwath (3-0) L: Shortall, Jim (1-1) S: Lincoln Lipinski (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Five-Run Seventh Haunts Cardinals vs No. 17 Adrian

Contact: Nicholas Osterloo, Director of Athletics Communication, 630-637-5324

CAROL STREAM, Ill. (Mar. 13, 2026) - Pushing the No. 17 team in Division III to the brink, the North Central College baseball team surrendered five runs in the seventh inning and fell, 7-5, to Adrian College on Saturday.

Cardinal starter Camden Loomis struck out two Bulldogs in the opening frame to keep the visitors off the board. Luke Wallace led off the bottom half with a single through the right side and stole second before scoring on a Parker Wyatt RBI single. Jackson Bland singled and Payton Diaz walked to load the bases for Caleb Coberley, who delivered a two-run single to extend the lead. Peyton Burgh added an RBI single to plate Diaz as North Central jumped ahead, 4-0.

Adrian answered with a leadoff triple from Cooper Tracy in the second. He scored on an RBI groundout to get the Bulldogs on the board. In the fourth, a double and RBI single trimmed the Cardinals' lead to 4-2.

Both pitchers posted back-to-back three-up, three-down innings to move the game into the sixth. Coberley singled and Burgh doubled to put runners on the corners, and Owen Ziaja lifted a sacrifice fly to score Coberley and push the advantage to 5-2.

Adrian's offense broke through in the seventh. Two singles and a walk forced a North Central pitching change, and a wild pitch brought the Bulldogs within a run. Elijah Hammond responded with back-to-back strikeouts to put the Cardinals on the verge of escaping, but an infield single tied the game before a two-run single gave Adrian a 7-5 lead.

North Central recorded a hit in each of the final three innings but couldn't push another run across as Adrian held on.

Wyatt, Bland and Burgh each tallied three hits. Coberley drove in two runs, and five Cardinals scored. Loomis worked six innings, allowing two runs and striking out six. Jim Shortall took the loss after giving up four runs, while Hammond finished the final three innings with four strikeouts and no runs allowed.

North Central wraps up the weekend with a 10 a.m. matchup against top-ranked Denison University at Lee Pfund Field in Carol Stream.
 
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