Northwestern baseball head coach Spencer Allen stressed the importance of getting off to a good start in the 2017 season. So far, through six games, that message has fallen on deaf ears.
The Wildcats (0-6) dropped all three games of this weekend’s Mule Mix Classic, with losses to Middle Tennessee, Belmont and Lipscomb. After a season-opening sweep at Arizona State in which Northwestern was relatively competitive, the pitching staff struggled to keep the Wildcats in any of the games down in Tennessee.
In Murfreesboro against the Blue Raiders on Friday, Northwestern staked No. 1 starter Joe Schindler with an early 3-0 lead.