ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Dayton baseball team lost 18-6 on Friday afternoon to Michigan at Ray Fisher Stadium in Ann Arbor. Junior Jose Martinez hit his first home run of the season and senior Marcos Pujols picked up three hits in the loss.
 
The Flyers allowed 20 hits compared to 10 for the Dayton offense, falling behind 6-0 after the first inning. UD falls to 8-8 in 2022, while Michigan improves to 10-8.
 
Senior Jay Curtis extended his hitting streak to 12 games in a 2-for-4 performance, picking up his team-leading seventh double of the season. The senior leads the team with 22 hits and a .367 batting average through the first 16 games.
 
ON THE MOUND
Redshirt freshman Chris Peguero started the game for Dayton, getting the first two outs of the game allowing six earned runs on three hits before being relieved by sophomore Eli Majick.
 
Majick would go the next 3.1 innings, allowing just one run on three hits in his time on the mound. The lefty retired 10 of 14 batters he faced in his eighth appearance of the year.
 
Senior Jake Silverstein, junior Anthony Hattrup, junior Thomas Braybrooks, and sophomore Nick Wissman got through the next 1.2 innings collectively to get the Flyers into the sixth inning.
 
Junior Nate Espelin would go the next 1.1 innings, allowing two runs on three hits, striking out one. Freshman Michael Crossan would be the eighth and final pitcher in the game for Dayton, making his season debut. Crossan pitched the eighth and notched his first career strikeout in his inning of work, also allowing four runs on four hits.
 
SCORING PLAYS
Bottom 1 (6-0 Wolverines)
A grand slam put Michigan up by four early. Peguero got the second out of the inning, but a walk, single, and walk ended his day. Majick allowed a bases-loaded single, scoring two runs and putting Dayton down 6-0.
 
Bottom 2: (7-0 Wolverines)
One of the few hits on Majick in his time on the mound came in the form of a solo home run, making it 7-0.
 
Top 3: (7-1 Wolverines)
Junior Omar Daniels singled to right field and a ground out to third moved him to second. Redshirt freshman Andrew Casey drew a two-out walk to extend the inning and Pujols drove in the first Dayton run of the game with a base hit through the left side, cutting the lead to six.
 
Top 4: (7-2 Wolverines)
Martinez cut the lead to five with a home run on the first pitch he saw in the fourth, clearing the left-field wall.
 
Bottom 5: (9-2 Wolverines)
Silverstein retired the first batter he faced before back-to-back singles put runners on the corners. Silverstein struck out the next Michigan batter before a wild pitch and a double put the deficit back at seven runs.
 
Bottom 6: (12-2 Wolverines)
An error by Daniels was followed by a home run off to make it 11-2. Braybrooks got the first out of the inning, but a double brought in Wissman. The sophomore got the second out of the inning on a groundout to short, but a base hit up the middle put the deficit at double digits.
 
Bottom 7: (14-2 Wolverines)
Espelin got a groundout to lead off the seventh, but a walk and a double brought home a run. Espelin got another groundout for the second out of the inning, but another base hit made it 14-2 Michigan.
 
Bottom 8: (18-2 Wolverines)
Crossan entered the game in the eighth, and the Wolverines used four singles to help score four runs in the inning.
 
Top 9: (18-6 Wolverines)
Graduate student Alexis Castillo led off the inning with a base hit off the pitcher. Freshman Lucas Adam drew a walk and redshirt freshman Nick Lukac picked up his first career hit, bringing Castillo in to score for the third run of the game. Two batters later, freshman Jimmy Zakhar IV walked to load the bases and a wild pitch brought Adam in to score. Freshman Jacob Veczko drove in the fifth run of the game with an RBI groundout. Zakhar finalized the scoring on a wild pitch to make it 18-6.
 
UP NEXT
The Flyers will finish the series with Michigan on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Ray Fisher Stadium in Ann Arbor.