GLENVILLE, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team dropped a 5-2 decision to Mansfield Sunday afternoon in the MEC-PSAC Mixer as the Mountain Lions played their final game of the weekend at the Sue Morris Complex.
The early stages of the game was a pitching dual between Concord's junior pitcher
Dan Nicholls and MU's Hunter DePrimo as the starters held each team scoreless through four innings.
The Mountaineers (3-3), though, broke through with five runs in the fifth inning, and never looked back in the contest.
CU (3-3) got a run in the eighth inning as junior infielder
Anthony Stehlin came around to score  after getting on base on a Mansfield error to start the frame. And the first two runners reached base for the Mountain Lions in the ninth as they tallied a run.
Senior infielder
Nathan Neff drew a leadoff walk before scoring on senior outfielder
Adam Linkous' triple. Concord was able to get the tying run to the plate with one out after freshman catcher
Nick Funk drew a walk, but the rally was extinguished by Mansfield reliever Todd Erney who recorded back-to-back strikeouts to end the game.
Nicholls (0-1) was charged with the loss as he gave up four runs on four hits while striking out four in 4.1 innings.
Senior catcher
Jakob Divers, Linkous and Stehlin all had two hits in the contest as Concord had eight as a team.
The Mountain Lions face Pitt-Johnstown 12:00 p.m. Tuesday in a doubleheader at Epling Stadium in Beckley, West Virginia.
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