On Monday afternoon, the Scots Baseball team hosted Kalamazoo College in a doubleheader at Klenk Park. The fourth time was the charm as three times previously these teams were rained out.

The visiting Hornets took both games by scores of 14-6 and 6-5, with the second game called after six innings due to darkness. Alma is now 7-16 in the MIAA and 11-21 overall, while Kzoo improved to 3-19 in the league and 6-24 in 2013.

The Hornets was able to get one run across in the top of the first as they took advantage of two walks by Alma Sr. starting P Alex Ruhlman (Ira, Mich./Algonac). The Scots also committed two errors that led to the run.

 The bottom of first saw Alma tie the game at 1-1 as Fr. CF John Mireles (Lansing, Mich./East Lansing) led off with a single and moved to second on a stolen base. With two outs, Sr. DH Cameron Schmidt (Port Austin, Mich./North Huron) single home Mireles.

Kzoo answered with three in the top of the second on four hits and took advantage of a walk and hit batter in making it a 4-1 game. Alma countered with a run in the bottom of the frame. So. LF Blake Leddy (Saginaw, Mich./Swan Valley) doubled and was knocked in by Fr. C A.J. Acton's (Temecula, Calif./Linfield Christian) single.

Two runs by the Hornets and four by the Scots in the third made the score 6-6 after three innings. The big hit for Alma came from Leddy, who singled with the bases loaded, scoring So. RF Jose Velez (Tampa, Fla./S. Ft. Myers) and Schmidt.

From that point on, the Alma bats were quieted and the Scots were unable to score any more runs. The Hornets one in the fifth, four in the sixth and three in the seventh en route to the 14-6 victory. Kzoo hammered out 14 hits and Alma pitchers walked 10 batters and had four hit batsmen.

So. P Roderick MacNeil (Brethren, Mich./Brethren) took the loss for the Scots after pitching four innings. He allowed five hits, four earned runs, four walks and had two strikeouts.

In the nightcap, Kalamazoo scored a single run off of Alma starter Fr. Blake Ordiway (Holly, Mich./Holly) in the top of the first. Jr. 1B Alex Kravat (Auburn, Mich./Bay City Western) doubled in the bottom of the first and was knocked in by Schmidt. Sr. SS Ryan Henris (Saginaw, Mich./Nouvel Catholic) then singled in Schmidt to give Alma a 2-1 lead after one.

Kzoo made it 2-2 in the top of the fourth before Alma answered in the bottom of the frame with three runs on four hits to recapture the advantage at 5-2. The runs came on big hits by Mireles, who had a two-RBI single and Kravat, who doubled in another tally.

However, the Hornets responded with four runs on four hits and two Alma errors in the top of the fifth, all charged to Ordiway, to take a 6-5 lead. Those runs would prove to be the difference as Alma's last two at bats came up empty and the game was called after the sixth.

Ordiway pitched four innings and allowed nine hits, five earned runs, two walks and he had five strikeouts. So. P Eric Strickler (Lapeer, Mich./Lapeer East) threw the final two frames and allowed one hit with one strikeout.

On Tuesday, the Scots will attempt to resume the Calvin suspended game from April 19. The game is tied at 2-2 entering the top of the third inning.