Baseball Wins With 2 8th-Inning Runs

Tuesday, May 10

Mount Pleasant, Mich.

3 p.m.

Central Michigan University

32-15

Oakland

25-23

Oakland

Central Michigan

Adam Mrakitsch rounds third and heads for home with the go-ahead run in the eighth inning on Tuesday at Theunissen Stadium.

Photo by: Jack Reeber '23,M'25 - @jackreeber.raw

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By: Katherine Schultz, CMUChippewas.com

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – The Central Michigan baseball team scored two runs in the eighth inning on Tuesday in rallying for a 4-3 nonconference victory over Oakland at Theunissen Stadium.

The Chippewas improve to 32-15 overall. They open a four-game Mid-American Conference series at Eastern Michigan on Friday (5 p.m.). The teams will continue with a Saturday (noon) doubleheader before closing the series on Sunday.

CMU trails first-place Ball State by 1 ½ games. The Chippewas are 24-6 in league play; Ball State, which entertains Ohio in a four-game set this weekend, is 26-5. Eastern Michigan is 21-27, 15-17 MAC.

Adam Proctor doubled in a run with two out in the eighth inning to tie the score, 3-3. Proctor was lifted for pinch runner Adam Mrakitsch, a freshman pitcher, who raced home and beat the throw with a slide on a single by Justin Simpson.

Simpson led the Chippewas' seven-hit offense with two. He delivered an RBI single in the seventh to tie the game, 2-2. Jakob Marsee's third-inning RBI double gave CMU its first run.

Ryan Insco (1-1), the fourth of five CMU pitchers, allowed one run on two hits in the eighth and picked up the win. Jake Jones issued a one-out walk in the ninth then got a fly out and a strikeout to end it and earn his sixth save.

Ben Vitas and Aaron Husson also took a turn on the mound, striking out two each. Michael Conte made his first career start, allowing two runs on three hits over three innings.