Bowling Green head coach Jim Beaverson originally wanted to throw six to seven pitchers in Saturday’s
nonleague doubleheader.
Some injuries in Genoa forced the matchup down to one game just one day after the Bobcats’ Friday night
game was canceled. So BG was using the nonleague contest as a bit of a bullpen session, working in a
handful of pitchers.
The Comets opened the game by repeatedly making hard contact at the plate and erupted for five runs in
the top of the fourth inning to take a sizable lead.
BG, though, despite Saturday being a day to get work in, responded in the bottom of the frame by batting
through the lineup and scoring eight runs to claim a three-run lead en route to an 11-6 win.
“Right after we gave up five, the boys realized this is a ball game, let’s go,” Beaverson said. “We had
to get some work in for our pitchers. We knew that was going to happen, but the bats finally woke up.”

BG improved to 8-0 overall and Genoa dropped to 4-3-1.
Isaac Elsasser, who had entered the game for the first time in the third inning to pitch, had stumbled on
the hill in the fourth. He avenged his struggles by igniting Bowling Green’s big inning with a leadoff
single.
Elsasser was called out at second base shortly thereafter in a fielder’s choice force out. But the senior
got a second at-bat in the inning and again ripped a single, this time to right field, driving in a pair
of runs to give BG its first lead of the day at 7-6.
“Isaac did well that very first inning he came out there and then kind of lost it a little bit. But he
didn’t hang his head,” Beaverson said. “That’s the competitor he is. You saw that in basketball and
everything else he does.”
Bryce Hoehner, Kyle Jackson, Eli Brown — twice — and Andrew Tucker all also singled in the inning. Luke
Roberts and Peyton Beaverson both walked and Nicholas Foster was hit by a pitch. Eight of nine players
reached base at least once in the inning.
“Everybody contributed in some way or form in that big inning. Which is what we expect,” Beaverson said.
“Everyone has to contribute on this team. And they do, usually.”
Tucker immediately followed Elsasser with a two-RBI single of his own to top off the fourth inning.
Tucker Craft started the game and allowed one run with two strikeouts across two innings for the Bobcats.
Elsasser tossed the next two, getting out of a runners-on-the-corners jam in the third before conceding
five runs in the fourth. Hoehner pitched the next inning and a third before Micah Fry closed the game
out with a bases-loaded flyout to center field.
“For us today, it was about the pitching. … I crushed four pitchers in one game and I wanted to throw six
or seven today. They got off the mound today in live competition and went down to the cages to finish up
their bullpens throwing 45 to 50 pitches,” Beaverson said.