Baseball

BEREA, OHIO -- The Baldwin-Wallace College baseball team dropped an 8-1 decision today to Albion (Mic.) College at the Gene Cusic Classic in Ft. Myers, Florida. B-W is on its spring break.

With its loss, the Yellow Jackets are now 2-4 overall. Despite the loss to Albion, there were a few B-W highlights. Senior two-time All-Ohio Athletic Conference and All-Mideast Region shortstop Jim Leffler (Chagrin Falls) had a pair of hits to break out of a slow start in which he entered the game batting just .172. Leffler had a pair of singles and drove in fellow senior Dave Riede (Cuyahoga Falls/ Walsh Jesuit) for the only run of the game. Riede reached base as he was hit by a pitch and advanced to second on an Albion error. In addition, freshman pitcher Chris Anderson (Bellefontaine) threw well in relief of starter Andrew Greenley (Woodmere/ Elmore).

The Yellow Jackets will return to action tomorrow when they play Eastern Nazarene College at 9:00 a.m. Then on Friday, B-W will end its southern trip with two games. They open the day by playing Transylvania State (Ky.) at 9:00 a.m. and then face sixth-ranked The College of Wooster at noon.

FOR MORE B-W SPORTS INFORMATION, please contact Sports Information Director Kevin Ruple by telephone at 440-826-2327, by FAX at 440-826-2329 or via e-mail at kruple@bw.edu. To contact Head Coach Dr. Robert "Bob" Fisher, please call him at 440-826-2182, FAX him at 440-826-2192 or e-mail him at rofisher@bw.edu.

To view today's game results, please log onto the B-W Internet Web site for athletics at www.bw.edu/athletics. Then go to baseball and the baseball schedule page. There you can view game stories, game stats and season statistics.