WASHINGTON - Under the lights, the Gallaudet University baseball team dropped an 18-4 non-conference game to The Catholic University of America on a damp and gloomy Wednesday night at Hoy Field.

The Cardinals (20-6) began the game with an eight-run first inning and held the Bison (5-19) scoreless until the bottom fourth. Junior center fielder Austin Sliva-Wynne (Richmond, Texas) broke up the no-hit bid with a rocket shot to center field to record GU's first hit. Sophomore Salvador Diaz (Norwalk, Calif.) followed with a single to right field to put runners at the corners. Senior Winston Lane III (Brooklyn Center, Minn.) drove home Sliva-Wynne with a RBI single to center as the Bison got on the scoreboard. Diaz later scored on a wild pitch as Gallaudet scored twice in the fourth.

In the bottom fifth, GU scored two more runs as both came home on a Sliva-Wynne triple to center field to plate sophomores Mitchell Dolinar (Las Vegas, Nev.) and Joshua Dugan (San Antonio, Texas), who both walked to reach base. GU's rally ended with back-to-back strikeouts as the Bison trailed by 14.

Junior starting pitcher Frank Diaz (Far Rockaway, N.Y.) took the loss on the mound as he pitched three innings and tallied two strikeouts. Freshman Robert Quigley (Mountain View, Calif.) came in to relieve Diaz and struck out a career-high five batters in two innings of work. Sophomore Bryan Ramos-Navarro (Springfield, Mass.) closed out the game for Gallaudet with two scoreless frames as a light mist fell from the sky.

Catholic used a combined 13 pitchers in the seven-inning game. 

BISON TRACKS

• Tonight's game was originally scheduled for Tuesday night but was delayed a day due to rain
• This game begins an eight-game homestand for the Bison

UP NEXT
Gallaudet will host St. Mary's College of Maryland (7-8, 3-5 United East) this Friday, April 8, at 3 p.m. in a United East Conference game.