‘A Lousy Performance’: Late Rally Comes up Short, Baseball Falls to Eastern Michigan

‘A lousy performance’: Late rally comes up short, baseball falls to Eastern Michigan

After earning its sixth consecutive series win on Saturday, NIU baseball (25-13, 16-8 MAC) dropped a 9-7 game to the Eastern Michigan University Eagles (13-27, 7-17 MAC ) on Sunday, failing to secure the sweep.  “A lousy performance,” head coach Ryan Copeland said. “ We didn’t pitch, I thought our processes offensively weren’t good enough, and we played bad defense and it singlehandedly cost us the game. So just not good, just not a good perform…

NIU’s Ninth-Inning Rally Falls Short Against Eastern Michigan - NIU Athletics

DeKALB, Ill. – The Northern Illinois University baseball team had the tying runs on base with no outs in the ninth but could not come back to force extra innings in a 9-7 loss to the Eastern Michigan Eagles on Sunday at Ralph McKinzie Field at Walt & Janice Owens Park.