13 Sophomores Close Out ACC Careers

The group that restarted the baseball program at ACC after a 50 year absence played their last games in Lumberjack uniforms this past weekend as ACC closed out their season losing 3 of 4 games against Muskegon Community College.

The Jayhawks won 4-1, 10-0 and 6-0 while ACC took game 3 of the series, 6-4.

In the Lumberjacks' win, Evan Fairbanks and Caleb Stuck each had three hits while Matt Thompson had two. Brett Moroschan homered and drove in two runs.

Grant Slater was the winning pitcher, throwing five innings and giving up only two earned runs.

Max Coughlin and Brandon Maddox each pitched a scoreless inning with Maddox posting the save.

In the final game of the year, ACC trailed only 1-0 until the top of the seventh when Muskegon scored five runs to break the game open.

Luke Gifford started and pitched three innings, giving up only one hit, striking out four and giving up only one unearned run.

Nik Tulgestka and Logan Geitman each pitched a shutout inning in relief.

Stuck, Maddox, Thompson, Gifford, Tulgestka, Geitman, Gage Kangas, Eric Rogers, Nathan Valdivia, Kaleb Blaskowski, Aaron Guitar, Wyatt Crawford and Mason Blumke finished their playing careers at ACC this weekend and all three are graduating this spring.

"It was an emotional weekend," coach Rob Enslen said. "These guys took a chance on me and our coaching staff in coming here and it has been a great two years. They will always be the foundation for what we are building here at ACC. I'll never forget this group."

The Lumberjacks finished the season with an 11-27-1 record, winning more than twice as many games as they did the previous season.