AVON, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University baseball team concluded the 2025 campaign on Thursday (May 22) in the MAC Tournament. The Falcons first played Toledo in a game that started at 9 a.m., paused at 10:25 a.m. for weather and then resumed at 5 p.m., going to a 14-12 final. BGSU then turned to Eastern Michigan, rallying back in the ninth inning to force extras, but the Eagles took the game in the 10th with a 10-7 final score to conclude the Bowling Green season at 33-21. 

The 2025 Falcons put their mark on the BGSU Record Book and the pair of games in the MAC Tournament were no different. As a pitching staff, BGSU pushed their season total for innings pitched to 480.1 innings this year, breaking the program record. Garrett Wright also ripped his 20th double of the season, breaking the program single-season doubles record. Connar Penrod brought his ERA down to 1.65, the fourth-best in program history and the best since 1974. The list continues for the Falcons with others adding their names to various top 10 lists as well. 

HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME 1

• Gunner Antillon was hit by a pitch to start the bottom of the first. He took second on a wild pitch, third on a grounder and then scored on another wild pitch for the first run of the game.
• Four consecutive walks followed to Brady Birchmeier, Zack Horky, Sam Seidel and Gavin Ganun before Caden Parker was hit by a pitch. Birchmeier scored on Ganun's walk and Horky scored on Parker's HBP, giving BGSU a 3-0 lead.
• Cooper McKenzie kept the scoring going by lifting a sacrifice fly to center field, bringing home Seidel. In the next at-bat, two wild pitches moved the runners up with Gavin Ganun scoring on the second with a 5-0 BGSU advantage before their first hit.
• Toledo answered in the top of the second, scoring nine for a 9-5 lead. Similar to Bowling Green, the Rockets had just two hits in the inning with weather playing a factor in pitching control. 
• The bottom half of the second started the same as the first with Antillon being hit by a pitch. A walk to Garrett Wright and a wild pitch moved both runners up. Birchmeier was able to rope a single up the middle, scoring both Antillon and Wright for a 9-7 tally.
• At 10:25 a.m. the game went into a rain delay before being resumed at 5 p.m.
• Toledo tallied the first runs of the post-rain delay action with three crossing in the top of the fifth, extending the lead 12-7.
• The Falcons answered in the bottom of the fifth. Ganun was hit by a pitch followed by a Parker single to left. A wild pitch moved both runners up. With two outs, Garrett Sloan sent a single up the middle, scoring Ganun.
• The two-out rally continued with Antillon delivering a single to left field, bringing home Parker. Wright followed with a single through the infield to score Sloan. The rally kept going with Birchmeier ripping a double down the third base line, scoring Antillon for a 12-11 score at the end of the fifth. 
• The back-and-forth continued into the sixth inning with Toledo adding two in the top of the sixth to push the score to 14-11. 
• In the ninth, Antillon drew a walk to start the inning. A grounder moved him to second with a Zack Horky walk putting runners at the corners. Seidel dropped a single into right, scoring Antillon for a 14-12 tally. 

STAT LEADERS, GAME 1

• Owen Poole: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R/ER, 3 K
• Brady Birchmeier: 2-for-5, 1 2B, 3 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB
• Caden Parker: 2-for-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 1 SB
• Sam Seidel: 2-for-5, 1 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 SB
• Gunner Antillon: 1-for-3, 4 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 2 HBP
• Garrett Wright: 1-for-4, 1 RBI, 1 R, 2 HBP
• Garrett Sloan: 1-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB

HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME 2

• The first runs of the game came in the top of the third with Eastern Michigan scoring two for a 2-0 lead. 
• The Falcons got on the board in the bottom of the fourth. Brady Birchmeier began the inning with an 11-pitch walk. A single to right by Sam Seidel marked the first BGSU hit of the game and put two runners on. A fly out moved Birchmeier to third for runners at the corners, but a steal for Seidel put both in scoring position. Caden Parker was able to deliver a two-out base knock to left center, scoring both Birchmeier and Seidel to knot it up at 2-2.
• Eastern Michigan broke the tie in the top of the fifth with a solo home run to right field for a 3-2 score. EMU added to their score in the sixth, stretching their lead to 5-2.
• With two outs in the sixth inning, Gunner Antillon blasted a solo home run to right field, cutting the EMU lead down to 5-3.
• In the ninth inning, Eastern Michigan added to their total, pushing the score to 7-3.
• The bottom half came with a BGSU answer. Antillon walked and Garrett Wright singled to put two on. Birchmeier launched a three-run shot to left, pulling the Falcons within one at 7-6, prompting an EMU pitching change.
• Back-to-back singles from Zack Horky and Seidel put two on. A fielder's choice placed Horky at third and Gavin Ganun at first with Alex Laird pinch running for Ganun. Parker was able to leg out an infield single, scoring Horky to tie it up at 7-7.
• EMU tallied three runs in the top of the 10th to move in front 10-7.

STAT LEADERS, GAME 2

• Garrett Wright: 2-for-6, 1 2B, 1 R
• Caden Parker: 2-for-5, 3 RBI, 1 SB
• Gunner Antillon: 1-for-4, 1 HR, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 HBP
• Brady Birchmeier: 2-for-4, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 2 R, 2 BB
• Sam Seidel: 2-for-5, 1 R, 1 SB
• Zack Horky: 1-for-4, 1 R, 1 BB
• Ty Roder: 1.1 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 K
• Connar Penrod: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 2 K

FALCON STAT FACTS

• PItching a combined 19 innings as a team between the two games, the Falcons broke the program record for innings pitched in a season with 480.1, previously set at 479.1 by the 2013 squad.
• Garrett Wright logged a double in the fifth inning of the second game, his 20th double of the season, breaking the program record and becoming the first Falcon in program history with 20 two-baggers in a year. 
• Wright continued his trek through the single-season record book with hits as well. He tallied three hits over the two games to give him 82 for the season, tying for fifth all-time in program history with Ryan Shay's 2009 season. Wright finished the season with a seven-game hitting streak as well. 
• Connar Penrod tossed two innings for the Falcons. Not allowing an earned run, the outing brings Penrod's ERA to 1.65 to conclude the season, the fourth-best ERA in a single-season by a Falcon ever and the best since 1974. 
• Gunner Antillon was hit by a pitch three times over the two games bringing his total to 13 this season. That ties Antillon for fifth all-time in program history for HBPs in a single-season, matching Logan Walker's 2014 campaign.
• Antillon added four runs scored in the first game for the Falcons setting a new career-high for him while also tying for the most by a Falcon this season, the fourth to do it this year. 
• Brady Birchmeier launched his team-leading ninth home run of the season. The long ball extended his on-base and hitting streaks. He concludes the season with a nine-game on-base streak and a seven-game hitting streak. Birchmeier also had two hits, three RBI and at least one run scored in both games of the tournament. 
• Caden Parker registered a pair of hits in each game, giving him eight hits over the final four games of the season. During that stretch he added six RBI, three runs scored, a home run and a double. 
• Sam Seidel tallied a pair of hits and scored in each of the games for the Falcons. Seidel finished the season scoring in three straight games as well as five of his last six played. 

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