Grand Valley Staste dropped a 5-3 decision to Walsh Thursday (March 7) afternoon at the Russ Matt Invitational in Kissimmee, Florida. The Lakers will play Sioux Falls (S.D.) in a doubleheader Friday (March 7) beginning at 1 p.m.
 
The Lakers pushed two unearned runs across the plate in the bottom of the sixth on two hits and a Walsh error. SS Parker Murdie singled , followed by a Chase Carpenter single and a Walsh throwing error that allowed Murdie to score and Carpenter to advance to second. Carpenter advanced to third on a groundout by RF Jacob Gleason and scored on a sac fly from DH Joe Laudont.  GVSU added a run in the bottom of the eighth on three hits. Gleason tripled to left with one out and scored on a Laudont single to left. Walsh scored five runs on four hits, three of which were extra-base hits, in the top of the ninth. The Cavaliers had managed just three hits through the first eight innings of action.
 
Laudont was 2-for-3 with two RBI, while 3B Anthony Cocco was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk. Starter Luke Hargis yielded  two hits with two strikeouts in five innigns of work. Brett Nearing pitched a hitless sixth, followed by two scoreless innings of work, including three strikeouts, by his brother Brendan Nearing. Christian Sidoti was tagged with the loss for the Lakers.