Game 3 box score: HC 5, GV 4

Game 4 box score: GV 3, HC 2

The Hillsdale College baseball team was within inches of a senior day sweep of the nationally ranked Grand Valley State University Lakers.

After topping GVSU 5-4 in Sunday's first game, the Chargers lost 3-2 in a heartbreaking nightcap, a game that was well-played by both teams. Hillsdale is now 16-28 overall and 11-17 in the GLIAC. The team plays its final home contest of the season at 4:00 Wednesday vs. Lourdes.

Michael O'Sullivan, who stepped up big in the first game with the game-deciding hit, attempted to score on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth in game 2. He was tagged out in an incredibly close play, ending the game. It was a play born of the kind of guts and determination that more often than not, wins games, and O'Sullivan's all-around improvement has been one of the best parts of this 2015 baseball season.

The program honored its seven graduating seniors in a special ceremony between games. The ceremony got a nice lift by the pitching of two of those seniors in the opener, Shane Armstrong and Dan Pochmara.

Armstrong spun a beauty of a game, going six innings with four strikeouts. He bounced back nicely from surrendering three runs in the first inning to GVSU. Over his last five innings, he permitted just one run and three hits against a powerful Laker lineup. Armstrong, having his best season this year, improved to 5-4 with the win.

Pochmara extended his own career school record with the 22nd save in his four seasons at Hillsdale, and sixth this season. 

Hillsdale dug out of a 4-0 deficit with a five-run fifth inning, capped by O'Sullivan's RBI single to center that scored Luke Ortel with the game-winning run. Alex Walts had a triple and Joe Gentile a double to help get the rally going. The Chargers did not have a single baserunner of any kind through the game's first four innings. Ortel had a two-run double that tied the game.

In game 2, junior Jacob Gardner turned in another solid start, going seven innings while yielding just five hits and three runs. Gardner, Mitchell Gatt nd Pochmara combined to hold GVSU off the scoreboard over the final six innings of the game.

O'Sullivan was 2-for-3 in game 2, while Ortel had a run batted in and scored a run in the nightcap.