Box Score 1 | Box Score 2
AUBURNDALE, Fla. -- Notre Dame won a pitcher's duel and then fell in a blowout in splitting with Wayne State (Mich.) on Friday.

The Falcons (8-11) got big pitching efforts from Matt Kastelic and Eric Napoli in the opener, a game NDC won, 4-3. Mound control and defense failed the Falcons in game two, which went to the Warriors by way of a 15-4 final.

Game One
Right-hander Matt Kastelic started the opener. Kastelic diffused 11 Warrior hits into just three runs over 5-2/3 innings. He walked two, struck out two and induced nine groundball outs. Wayne State scored two of its runs in the first inning when Kastelic was hit for three straight one-out singles. He wriggled free from a worse fate, however, by getting two outs with a runner in scoring position. And that type of clutch pitching would get the Falcons out of many a jam in game one. Kastelic, and later Eric Napoli for the final four outs, held Warrior hitters to a 1-for-11 mark with runners in scoring position over the seven innings.

Notre Dame answered Wayne State's two runs with three of its own in the bottom of the third. A two-run Jesse Bartle double to center was the key hit in the inning. NDC extended its lead to 4-2 when Keifer Quick doubled in Jon Koepf with two outs in the fifth.

Wayne State scored once in the top of the sixth, but a Napoli strikeout ended the threat of WSU tying the game. Napoli walked one batter and hit another in an adventurous seventh, but he escaped with a groundout and a strikeout, preserving the one-run victory.

Quick went 3-for-3 in the win, NDC's first in a one-run game this season

Game Two
The nightcap was a close battle until Notre Dame suffered a disastrous fifth. The Falcons led, 4-3, after two innings, and the Warriors tied the score at 4-4 with a solo run in the fourth.

From there, the wheels came off for NDC. Wayne State scored six unearned runs among eight total in the fifth. They Warriors mopped things up with three in the sixth. Meanwhile, the Falcons went hitless over the last three innings. Hit batters, walks and an error aided Wayne State's breakout fifth.

Freshman Tanner Scott started for NDC and suffered through a bout of control problems in the game. He walked six and fanned seven en route to allowing four runs over four innings. Tyler DeCrapio, Travis Bondy and Tyler Andrew combined to pitch the balance of the game.

WSU scored its 15 runs on just eight hits in the contest. Notre Dame managed just two hits.