Zips Celebrate Senior Day at Skeeles Field, Falls in Finale against Miami

Sunday, May 15

Akron, Ohio

12:30 PM

University of Akron

13-39, 0

Miami University

23-29, 0

Miami

AKRON

Zips Celebrate Senior Day at Skeeles Field, Falls in Finale against Miami

May 15 | Baseball

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Zips Celebrate Senior Day at Skeeles Field, Falls in Finale against Miami

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AKRON, Ohio – The Akron Zips celebrated Senior Day prior to Sunday's #MACtion series finale against Miami as the RedHawks posted a 20-3 win at Skeeles Field.

Prior to the game Akron recognized its graduating seniors for the Justin Barr (Pensacola, Fla.), Zac Granger (Elmira, N.Y.), Jackson Haas (Cincinnati, Ohio), Taed Heydinger (Bayfield, Colo.), Jackson Hickert (Ballwin, Mo.), Matthew Radtka (Uniontown, Ohio), Jerry Reinhart (Batavia, N.Y.), Bryant Shellenbarger (Mount Vernon, Ohio), Conor Steinbaugh (Georgetown, Ill.) and Tate Wargo (Benld, Ill.) prepared for their final game at Skeeles Field.

Barr led the Zips with a 3-for-4 performance with a double and a RBI, while Shellenbarger collected one hit, and went 6-for-14 for the series to lead the squad with a .429 batting average.

The RedHawks opened the finale with a pair of solo homeruns to take a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Akron cut the lead in half as Wargo led-off the game with a base on balls and scored after Shellenbarger and Granger singled and doubled to right field, respectively. The Zips added runs in the fourth and the fifth innings, as Haas launched a two-out solo homerun to left field and freshman Cameron Benson (Farmington Hills, Mich.) tripled to right field. The Redhawks answered in the second and scored at least one run per inning through seven innings and exploded for 10 runs in the eighth.

The Akron Zips baseball program is scheduled to play the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Canal Park, home of the Akron RubberDucks, on Monday, May 16 at 6 p.m. Admission for the game is free.

Monday's game marks the return of the Zips baseball to Canal Park, where the team has played at least one game every season from the park's opening in 1997 until 2015. Akron is 24-33 all-time when playing at the home of the RubberDucks, the Double-A affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians. This will be the fourth meeting all-time between the Zips and Yellow Jackets and first since a season opening series in 2013. Georgia Tech leads the all-time series with Akron 3-0.

Fans can watch the game on Zips Digital Network with Chad Welker on the call or via live stats on GoZips.com.

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L, 0-12

May 16 (Mon)

6:00 PM

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Pitching:

W: Brady McLean (0-0)

L: Biglin, Brady (0-0)

Miami

Batting:

2B: David Novak 1 ; William Escala 1

HR: Benji Brokemond 1 ; Zach MacDonald 1 ; Cole Andrews 1 ; David Novak 1 ; Nick Clark 1

RBI: Benji Brokemond 4 ; Zach MacDonald 2 ; Cole Andrews 3 ; David Novak 1 ; Stephen Krause 1 ; Nick Clark 3 ; William Escala 2 ; JJ Woolwine 1

SH: Parker Lester 1

SF: Zach MacDonald 1 ; Stephen Krause 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Benji Brokemond 3 ; Zach MacDonald 3 ; Cole Andrews 2 ; David Novak 2 ; Parker Lester 3 ; Stephen Krause 2 ; Nick Clark 1 ; Brian Zapp 1 ; William Escala 1 ; JJ Woolwine 2