Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 RIPON, Wis. – The Grinnell College baseball team bounced back from an opening-round loss Friday to advance to Saturday's action at the 2014 Midwest Conference Baseball Tournament.
 
The Pioneers fell 14-7 to St. Norbert College to open the day, but remained alive with a 7-3 victory over Cornell College in the afternoon.
 
In the win over Cornell, Niko Takayesu '17 and Matt Hammond' 17 each had two hits. Hammond had a homer and double among his totals, while Takayesu tripled.
 
Sam Tinkham '16 was the winning pitcher, giving up just five hits and fanning eight in 7-1/3 innings of work.
 
Grinnell opened the scoring in the first inning when Ryan Penaflor's '16 groundout plated Takayesu, who had tripled. After Cornell tied things in the second, Grinnell went up 2-1 in the third when Takayesu walked and scored on Penaflor's double to right-center.
 
Grinnell made it 3-1 in the seventh when Hammond homered over the left-field fence. Cornell made it 3-2 in the bottom of the inning, but the Pioneers all but put the game away in the eighth when Hammond belted a three-run double down the left-field line.
 
Cornell finished the scoring with a run in the bottom of the frame.
 
In the St. Norbert game, Grinnell got a 4-for-5 hitting performance from Teague Towner '17 and two hits from Penaflor, Anthony Mack '16 and Jacob Beecher '16. Towner doubled twice, while Takayesu, Mack and Hammond had one double apiece.
 
Grinnell scored twice in the first inning on Beecher's two-run single to left. However, the Green Knights responded with three runs in the second and four in the fifth for a 7-2 lead. Grinnell made it 7-3 in the bottom of the fifth on Hammond's RBI double to center.
 
St. Norbert, however, scratched out a run in the seventh and four in the eighth for a 14-3 lead. The Pioneers got three runs in the bottom of the inning on RBI doubles by Takayesu and Mack and run-scoring single by Penaflor.
 
In the ninth, Towner hit a run-scoring single.
 
Will Pahos '14 suffered the pitching loss.
 
Grinnell, 20-16 overall, meets Ripon College at 10 a.m. Saturday.