Bowling Green baseball (9-5, 3-0) faced their toughest test yet of the young 2025 baseball season on Sunday with an opportunity for a sweep against the Ohio Bobcats (3-11, 0-3) in Athens, Ohio. 

Pitching continues to be a sore spot for BGSU, which rocked early and often through the first three innings. Senior right-hander Landon Willeman allowed six hits, three runs with a walk and two strikeouts in the first three innings.

The Bobcats would pour on three more runs, setting the score at 6-0 with the game heading into the top of the seventh.  

With a sweep on the line, the Falcons managed to kick themselves into overdrive right before the seventh-inning stretch, scoring five straight during the seventh.  

A massive catalyst for the scoring run was a clutch double from sophomore catcher Garrett Wright, who smoked a ball through the left side of the field, placing himself on base and scoring two others, which would eventually result in a 6-5 score at stretch time. 

A single homerun from Ohio would keep the game away from BGSU, but then a massive momentum shift would be injected into the Orange and Brown when junior catcher Zack Horky hit a three-run homer that gave BG their first lead of the day, 8-7. 

BGSU would manage to sustain defensively, keeping the Bobcats scoreless through the final two innings and giving the Falcons a huge start to conference play with a 10-7 victory. 

The victory marked head coach Kyle Hallock’s 100th win in his coaching career, all at Bowling Green.

Up next for BGSU baseball is the team’s home opener, with the Orange and Brown slated for a 3 p.m. game on Tuesday against Tiffin University at Steller Field.