Westfield, Ind.—The Toledo baseball team split its doubleheader with Central Michigan on Sunday, winning game one, 13-1, before dropping game two, 3-2. The games were played at Grand Park in Westfield, Ind., outside of Indianapolis, due to poor weather conditions in Mount Pleasant and Toledo.

The next time the Rockets take the field will be Tuesday at home against Wright State at 3:05 p.m. A Wednesday contest at Oakland follows, then UT hosts Eastern Michigan in a Mid-American Conference series next weekend.

Toledo 13, Central Michigan 1
The Toledo offense pounded out 19 hits in the first game en route to a 13-1 victory against the Chippewas. Junior Ross Adolph went 3-for-5 with two home runs and a career-high five RBIs, giving him 10 dingers on the season. He is the first Rocket with double-digit home runs in a season since 2010 (Jared Hoying and Dan Sherwood, 14) and his performance was the second multi-home run game for him this season (3/17 at Cincinnati). Freshman Chris Meyers was extremely productive, reaching base in five of his six trips to the plate and scoring twice, including his second home run of the season. Senior Dalton Bollinger tied a career-high with four hits and senior Casey Gose smacked the first homer of his career.

Senior Sam Shutes was excellent, again. He threw seven shutout innings and struck out seven for his seventh victory of the year. It was his third start of the season that he threw at least seven shutout innings.

How it Happened:

• Adolph homered to straight away center field to bring in the game's first run. He homered again in the top of the second inning, a three-run shot, to the same part of the ballpark for his 10th dinger of the year.
• The Rockets scored five runs altogether in the top of the second. In addition to Adolph's homer, freshman John Servello singled in a run and Meyers hit a long ball, also to center field.
• Three runs came in for Toledo in the third inning, one on a fielder's choice and two on bases-loaded walks. The first run came courtesy of a fantastic squeeze bunt by Gose. The Chippewas' first baseman fielded the ball and went home, but Meyers scored easily, allowing Gose to reach first.
• UT scored one run each in the fourth, fifth, and sixth to extend its lead to 12-0. The highlight of that stretch was the homer by Gose, who lifted a ball over the left field fence that caused a frenzy in the Rockets' dugout.
• Both teams scored in the eighth frame. Bollinger's RBI single gave the Rockets run number 13, and CMU tallied its only score in the bottom half on an RBI double.
• Shutes sat down nine straight batters spanning from the end of the third to the middle of the sixth. Toledo's veteran starter did not allow a walk on Sunday. 

Central Michigan 3, Toledo 2
It was a different story in game two, as the Rockets dropped a low-scoring game to give CMU the series victory.

Freshman Jacob Youngpeter started on the mound and gave UT four solid innings. Senior Alex Wagner tossed 3.1 innings and did not allow a run while he was on the mound. Offensively, Bollinger and Gose both had two hits, while senior Brad Boss and sophomore Michael Ryan drove in the runs for the Midnight Blue and Gold.

How it Happened:

• One of the key plays of the game came in the bottom of the second. The Chippewas scored two runs thanks to a Toledo throwing error on a play that should only have scored one. The extra run ended up being the difference.
• Ryan dropped a single into right field to halve the deficit and get his team on the scoreboard, bringing the ledger to 2-1.
• Boss tied it up with a clutch two-out hit in the top of the seventh that scored freshman Trace Hatfield, who hustled in from second base to slide safely into home.
• CMU's Griffin Lockwood-Powell doubled in the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth. The play was set up by a two-base throwing error that put a runner on third base.
• Toledo had a good scoring chance in the top half of the eight, but stranded runners on second and third.