Tucson, Ariz. - The Thunder baseball team dropped a 15-4 decision to the hot-hitting Little Giants of Wabash College on Monday at the Tucson Invitational. Wabash was able to score in every inning the run-rule shortened game in improving to 4-2 overall. The loss drops Wheaton to 2-3 overall on the season. Wheaton will face North Central University (Minn.) at 10 am on Tuesday morning.

Wabash pushed across 15 runs on 12 hits with two errors while limiting Wheaton to four runs on six hits with three errors. Cody Cochran earned the win for Wabash, surrendering two earned runs and striking out nine in six innings of work.

Wabash struck early, plating two runs in the bottom of the first inning and taking advantage of some sloppy defense by the Thunder for three more runs in the bottom of the second inning. Wheaton got on the scoreboard in the top of the third inning when Connor Hartman drove in Seth Meyer by reaching on an infield single. Hartman would later get picked off at first but stayed in a rundown long enough to allow Jacob Garrity to score from third to cut the Wabash lead to 5-2. Wheaton looked to further close the gap by loading the bases with two outs in the inning, but could not find the big hit.

The Little Giants broke the game open in the bottom of the third inning, chasing Wheaton starter Alex Hanvey and plating another five runs to take a 10-2 lead. Again Wheaton chipped away in the top of the fourth, pushing two runs across on a Garrity sacrifice fly scoring Evan Ogden and a fielder's choice off the bat of Nick Mailman that plated Meyer.

Wabash would put the game away with two runs in the home half of the fourth and fifth innings and another run in the bottom of the sixth inning.