By Jim Fenton

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- The Bridgewater State University baseball team had a three-game winning streak halted on Tuesday afternoon.

BSU allowed 16 hits in a 14-1 loss to Wittenberg University of Springfield, Ohio, at the Ripken Experience.

The Bears are 3-2 with three games to go in the spring break trip while the Tigers improved to 7-3 with their fifth win in a row.

Wittenberg scored nine runs in the middle three innings and added five more in the bottom of the eighth while limiting BSU to a run in the eighth.

The Bears managed just five hits off two Tigers' pitchers with senior Joshua Selander (Granby, Conn.) going 2-for-3 while junior Rylan Secovich (Southwick, Mass.), freshman Nick Berube (Swampscott, Mass.) and junior Logan Petrosino (Beverly, Mass.) had one hit each.

The game was scoreless entering the bottom of the fourth when the Tigers scored three times.

Junior Xander Rodriguez (Salinas, Puerto Rico) hit a two-run home run after a single by sophomore Landon Turner (Tipp City, Ohio).

Senior Daniel Gladden (Galena, Ohio) added an RBI double in the inning.

The lead went to 7-0 when Wittenberg scored four in the fifth.

The Tigers plated one run on an error and another on a wild pitch before a single up the middle by senior Tommy Chilicki (Lewis Center, Ohio) brought in two more runs.

In the sixth, a passed ball scored a run and a groundout scored another for a 9-0 advantage.

BSU's run in the eighth came on a sacrifice fly by freshman Hudson Dziadula (Baldwinsville, N.Y.), scoring freshman Henry Austin (Braintree, Mass.), who had reached on an error.

Wittenberg scored the last five runs in the eighth.

Turner and senior Alex Nemunaitis (Perrysburg, Ohio) had RBI singles and Gladden hit a three-run home run to left.

Winning pitcher Mason Glen (Cincinnati, Ohio), a freshman, allowed four hits and struck out seven in six innings while senior Zach Rust (Dublin, Ohio) had four strikeouts in three innings.

Senior Blake Samuelson (Millbury, Mass.) started and went four innings for the Bears, allowing seven runs to pick up the loss.

Freshman Logan Cormier (Athol, Mass.) worked a scoreless inning and freshman Wyatt Yeatter (Wimberley, Texas) pitched three innings for BSU.

The Bears will play Wednesday at noon against the Penn College of Technology, which lost to BSU, 13-10, in 2022.