Beak you to the best start since 1928 after you have hit Chippenwas – bowling Green Daily News

The baseball team of Western Kentucky defeated Central Michigan 10: 5 to win the series on Saturday in Nick Denes Field.

The victory moves the Hilltoppers to 9: 1 and marks the best start that WKU had had in 10 games since the 1928 season. The 1928 WKU bunch of the base of the base was 15: 1 on the way to a state championship title.

WKU scored 10 runs and started a trio of Homern, while the starting jug on the way to his second victory in the 2025 season achieved a career high-high-high-high high-high high.

Ryan Wideman scored with a solo homer over the left center in the first goal to put the tops 1-0.

The Chippenwas went out the scipes with an RBI single on the top of the second.

In the second inning, WKU collected four times with a Homer von Reid Howard with three runs before Wideman Carlos Vasquez scored with an RBI triple to extend the lead to 5-1.

Central Michigan used an RBI single and a Hilltopper error to reduce the deficit to 5-3 in the top of the fifth.

A solo Homerun from WKU von Camden Ross von WKU scored 6: 3 after five Inning.

Ross and Caleb Marmo met RBI-Doppel in a row before Thomas Marsala drove to another with an RBI single in the seventh in Seventh Inning. This extended the WKU advantage to 9-3.

A Chippewa -Balk achieved Ethan Lizama to bring the 10th run for the tips in the eighth inn to the board.

A Homerun in Central Michigan and an RBI single in the ninth inning made the final result 10: 5.

Whalen made his third start on the hill this season. The nine strikes in five in ours in the second year left a new career high. He reached his former career high of eight strikes in his two starts before Saturday. Whalen improves to 2-0 and now has an ERA of 3.14 after he has allowed two deserving runs with six goals.

Lucas Hartman, Lucas Litteral and Hunter Small saw from the bullpen around the tips. In the last four frames, only a deserved run for the Chippenwas as Hartman, Litteral and Small together for four strikes with only four goals and a walk.

The WKU offensive achieved double-digit runs for the second time this season when they scored 10 runs with 13 goals with nine RBIs.

Three Hilltoppers had three goals in Wideman, Ross and Marsala.

Wideman was in a 3-on-5 day with two RBIs, two runs, a Homerun, a triple and a double.

Ross was a triple part of the cycle in a 3-on-4 performance with two RBIs, two runs, a Homerun and a double.

Marsala had an RBI, a run and a double in a 3-against-4 effort on the plate.

Howard-the only real freshman players in the squad-trap his first college home of his career-one three-run shot over the wall of the left field-in a 1-on-4 show.

WKU improves against Central Michigan to 7-9 ever.

The Hilltoppers complete their four-game series on Sunday against Central Michigan. Nick Denes Field's first pitch is planned for 1 p.m.