FT. PIERCE, Fla. (March 14) -- The Thiel College Baseball team dropped a non-conference tilt with Kenyon College 14-5 Friday afternoon at Lawnwood Baseball Complex.

The Tomcats drop to 2-7 while the Owls rise to 6-7.

Thiel jumped to a 1-0 lead in the first as Nathen Prunty (Elyria, Ohio/Keystone) brought in Chase Morrison (Monaca, Pa./Central Valley) with a gap-shot double. Kenyon evened things in the bottom of the first, but Thiel forged ahead 2-1 on a Nick Jacobs (New Castle, Pa./Union) RBI single in the third.

Prunty finished 1-for-4 with a RBI while Morrison was 2-for-4 with a pair of runs. Jacobs swatted a pair of hits to go 2-for-4 with a RBI and a run.

Ethan Bintrim (New Castle, Pa./Shenango) worked a scoreless third and ended the frame with a K to keep it 2-1. Kenyon loaded the bases with nobody out in the fourth but Bintrim was able to limit the damage to 2 as the Owls went ahead 3-2.

Bintrim took the loss and fell to 0-2 after working four-plus innings. He was charged with 2 earned runs and had one strikeout.

Kenyon added four in the fifth to leap ahead 7-2. Calvin Cackowski (Wickliffe, Ohio/Wickliffe) roped a RBI double in the sixth while Fletcher Hindman (Pittsburgh, Pa./Baldwin) had a RBI infield single to make it 7-4. Thiel added 1 more run in the frame to cut the deficit to 2 at 7-5. 

Cackowski had one RBI and run each while Hindman added a hit and a RBI. Max Bihler (Delaware, Ohio/Olentangy Berlin) had a hit in the sixth and finished with two on the day.

Hewitt Wilt (Geneva, Ohio/Geneva) worked a scoreless sixth, but Kenyon plated 7 in the seventh to spell the 14-5 final. Charlie Luedtke (Mars, Pa./Mars Area) worked a scoreless eighth with a punch out.

Thiel totaled 11 hits on the day while Kenyon had 15.

Baseball concludes Florida play tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. versus Washington (Md.).