St. Catharine's, Ont. (September 24, 2014) - The Guelph Gryphon baseball team dropped a pair of close games with scores of 1-0 and 5-2 to the Brock Badgers on Wednesday night at George Taylor Field. With the victories, the Gryphons fall to 8-3 while the Badgers move into first place in the OUA.
 
In Game One, it was a pitcher's dual, as Brock starter Johnny Hutton and Guelph's Casey Bouillere-Howard went head-to-head. Hutton threw six shutout innings giving up four hits while striking out six. Bouillere-Howard was equally as impressive, throwing eight shutout innings allowing six hits while striking out a game-high nine Brock batters.
 
Out of the bullpen, Dylan Perego (1 2/3 IP, 1H, 2K), Jeffrey Baggaley  (1/3 IP, 0H) and Phil Owen  (1 IP, 2H, 1K, W) shutdown the Gryhons offence, combining for the six-hit shutout.
 
In the bottom of the ninth, Brock's Dan Nicoletta led off with a double. Wil Nicholson would move Nicoletta to third with a sacrifice. Marchus Beal would then pinch-hit and scored Nicoletta with a game-winning RBI single, for the Badgers third walk-off victory of the season.
 
Leading the Gryphons was Peter Ricciardi, Matthew Forer, Kyle Westwater, Nicholas Interisano and Jacob Gerovac with one hit apiece.
 
In Game two, the Gryphons fell 5-2. Brock added four runs in the opening three innings. Gryphon pitcher Jeffrey Snelgrove went 3 innings allowing four runs on seven hits while striking out one and walking three in the loss.
 
The Badgers offense collected 10 hits in total, led by Gignac who was 3-for-3 with a double and RBI. Ferri was 1-for-1 with two walks and two runs scored. Steer, Gideon, Nicoletta, Nick Anton,  Nicholson and Chris Aderi all chipped in with one hit each. 
 
Leading the Gryphons was Justin Interisano who was 3-for-3.