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BASEBALL
No. 11 Indiana Tech 14, Grace 9
Monday in Fort Wayne
Indiana Tech, ranked No. 11 by the NAIA in the preseason poll, came from behind to defeat the Grace College baseball team 14-9 Monday in Fort Wayne.
Grace jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the top of the first as Kenny Jennings hit a bases loaded triple to clear the bases. The Lancers added a run in the second to take a 5-0 lead through two innings.
In the third, Indiana Tech began to heat up, scoring twice to cut the lead to 5-2. The team tied the game with three runs in the fourth and went ahead for good in the fifth.
Jennings went 3 for 5 to lead the Lancers and he threw out 3 of 4 base runners attempting to steal. On the year, he has gunned out 8 of 13 runners. Greg Hannah, John Kessinger and Steve Walta added two hits each.
Grace falls to 1-4 on the year and will play at Purdue-North Central Thursday at 2 p.m.
INDIANA TECH 14, GRACE 9
Grace 410 030 010 - 9 12 3
Indiana Tech 002 353 01x - 14 10 2
WP -ÊMatt Legum. LP -ÊMike Presley (0-1).
Grace batters -ÊGreg Hannah 2 for 4, R; Kenny Jennings 3 for 5, 2B, 3B, 3 RBIs, 2 R; John Kessinger 2 for 5, R, RBI; Steve Walta 2 for 4, R
TRACK AND FIELD
Harshman Places 8th At Championships
Saturday in Oshkosh, Wis.
Manchester College senior Heather Harshman capped off her indoor season with an eighth-place finish in the shot put at the NCAA Division III Track and Field National Championships in Oshkosh, Wis. Heather was seeded 10th going into the event, which returned eight (five of seven finalists) participants from the 2000 Championships.
Harshman's best toss of the day was 42 feet, 9-3/4 inches, which missed qualifying for finals by 5 centimeters. Manchester gets the outdoor track and field season underway when it travels to Indiana Wesleyan for an 11 a.m. Saturday meet.
