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The Grand Valley State baseball team earned a 13-3 victory in the first game of a doubleheader against the Tiffin Dragons before their second game of the twinbill was suspended after the sixth inning due to darkness. Play for game two will resume tomorrow afternoon at 12:30 PM and the second doubleheader will start at the scheduled time of 1:00 PM with game two beginning at 4:00 PM.

With the victory, the team improves to 14-10 overall and 3-2 in conference play while the Dragons fall to 8-11 and 2-3 in the GLIAC. The Laker bats were alive all day but they couldn't string anything together and found themselves down 2-0 after the second and 3-1 after the third. GVSU finally broke through in the third, tying the game 3-3 before eventually taking the lead seventh and never looking back.

Ryan Arnold rolled through the first inning, forcing a popout and two groundouts to put the Lakers up to bat in the bottom of the frame. Zach Berry delivered a one-out single before advancing to second on a passed ball but the Lakers couldn't push the run across and the teams went to inning two tied 0-0.

Tiffin got on with a one-out bunt single in the top of the second before advancing to second on a Laker passed ball. The next batter hit a ball sharply to second base but a bad throw from the Lakers put the runner on while scoring the runner from second for the first run of the game and the Dragon 1-0 lead. A flyout ended the inning for the Dragons.

Austin LaDoux got the Lakers going in the bottom of the second with a leadoff double down the right field line. Ricky Clark got on with one out after a Tiffin error before him and LaDoux moved up to second and third after a bunt single from Josh C. Smith. GVSU couldn't capitalize on the bases loaded opportunity however and the Dragons clung to their 1-run lead heading into the away half of the third.

Tiffin would add one run to their lead following a one-out walk, a single, a wild pitch, and a sacrifice bunt that brought the runner home. The Dragons kept their momentum over the Lakers into the bottom of the frame, striking out all three Laker batters.

Each team would add a run in the fourth inning, with the Dragons hitting a one-run homerun over the right field wall. The Lakers opened the home half of the fourth with back-to-back singles before another one-out single from Smith would bring LaDoux around to score the Lakers first run of the game.

Arnold rolled through the top of the fifth inning and GVSU would tie the game in the bottom of the inning with a two-run blast from Jacob Gleason that brought in Zach Berry who had singled to start the inning. Neither team had anything doing in the sixth inning or the top of the seventh. Gleason struck again in the bottom of the seventh with another homerun, this time over the right field fence, to deliver what would turn out to be the game-winning run. The Lakers weren't done in the inning however, as Smith delivered a two-RBI double down the left field line that score Clark and Ryan Blake-Jones for the 6-3 Laker lead.

GVSU kept their bats hot in the eighth inning as Berry smashed a two-run homer over the right field fence that also scored Nolan Anspaugh. Alex Mandevill put the game out of the reach for the Dragons for good, blasting a grand-slam to left field for his first homerun of the season and the 13-3 GVSU lead before closing the game out in the final inning for the victory.

As a team, the Lakers rattled off 15 hits en route to their 13 runs while holding the Dragons to six hits and three runs in the game. Mandeville led the squad with four RBI's on his one swing while Gleason also tallied three RBI as well.

Game two is currently sitting at a 3-2 Tiffin lead and once again will be completed tomorrow afternoon at 12:30 PM.