Marshall University Athletics
Marshall University
10-7
Central Michigan
3-14
Herd Baseball Falls to Central Michigan on Wednesday, 12-11
3/12/2025 10:40:00 PM | Baseball
Niu goes 4-for-6 with three extra-base hits; win streak ends at nine games
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Baseball team (10-7) saw its winning streak end at nine games in a 12-11 loss to the Central Michigan Chippewas (3-14) on Wednesday night at Jcck Cook Field. The Herd ended its nine-game homestand with an 8-1 record.
"It was a heck of a homestand we had. Unfortunately, it was a little too little too late there, but we had some opportunities earlier in the game to make some plays and help ourselves out a little bit and we just missed," Herd Baseball Head Coach Greg Beals said.
Maika Niu finished the contest 4-for-6 with three runs scored and three extra-base hits in the contest, two triples and a double. Eddie Leon and Cam Harthan also had multi-hit efforts as Leon scored a pair of runs and Harthan had a pair of RBI.
Jackson Halter hit his first home run of the season on a two-out, two-RBI blast to right in the ninth.
Out of the bullpen, Tim Baird hurled a scoreless seventh with a pair of strikeouts as A.J. McAninch threw a perfect ninth. Luke Proehl and Peyton Jackson also strikeout a pair of batters.
Niu nearly tied the game in the bottom of the ninth, but the CMU defense was positioned in a shift as his liner up the middle was snagged by the second baseman.
UP NEXT
Marshall is set to open Sun Belt Conference with a three-game series at Arkansas State beginning on Friday.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Jake Brown (1-0)
L: Weyrich, Nicholas (1-2)
Batting:
2B: Cayden Smith 2 ; Aaron Piasecki 1 ; Nathan Ball 1
3B: Cole Prout 1
HR: Aydin Wright 1
RBI: Mikey Murphy 2 ; Cole Prout 2 ; Aaron Piasecki 1 ; Jake Kutella 2 ; Nathan Ball 1 ; Aydin Wright 1 ; Zach Knowlton 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Mikey Murphy 1 ; Cole Prout 3 ; Cayden Smith 1 ; Aaron Piasecki 1 ; Cole Kwiatkowski 1 ; Nathan Ball 1 ; Bryson Webb 2 ; Aydin Wright 1 ; Zach Knowlton 1
SB: Cayden Smith 1 ; Bryson Webb 1 ; Zach Knowlton 4
HBP: Cayden Smith 1 ; Zach Knowlton 1
Batting:
2B: Niu, Maika 1 ; Havrilla, AJ 1 ; Leon, Eddie 1 ; Wilson, Nolan 1
3B: Niu, Maika 2
HR: Halter, Jackson 1
RBI: Harthan, Cam 2 ; Niu, Maika 1 ; Havrilla, AJ 1 ; Murdoch, Ethan 2 ; Vogelsong, Elijah 1 ; Leon, Eddie 1 ; Halter, Jackson 2
SH: Vogelsong, Elijah 1
SF: Murdoch, Ethan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Harthan, Cam 1 ; Niu, Maika 3 ; Havrilla, AJ 1 ; Murdoch, Ethan 1 ; Leon, Eddie 2 ; Halter, Jackson 1 ; Lafferty, Will 1 ; Wilson, Nolan 1
SB: Harthan, Cam 1 ; Niu, Maika 1 ; Havrilla, AJ 1 ; Murdoch, Ethan 1 ; Leon, Eddie 1
CS: Hinson, Cooper 1
HBP: Havrilla, AJ 1 ; Leon, Eddie 1
