CINCINNATI - The Niagara baseball game completed its series in Cincinnati with three losses on Sunday. The Purple Eagles completed Friday's game that was cancelled due to rain, falling 9-2. NU dropped both games of Sunday's double header, 12-1 and 7-5.

Senior Matt Wietlispach collected five hits on the weekend and classmate Timothy Cozier scored three times. Wietlispach and sophomore Cam Stykemain both knocked in three runs for Niagara.

Cincinnati 9, Niagara 2
Stykemain doubled in the sixth and singled home a pair in the eighth, but the Purple Eagles already trailed 7-0 at that point. Niagara totaled just four hits against the Bearcats' pitching staff.

Senior Marcus Spaulding struggled in his fourth-straight start, allowing six runs on eight hits in three innings of work, falling to 0-4 on the season. Freshman Tyler Scott tossed four innings of one-hit scoreless relief to keep NU close.

Cincinnati 12, Niagara 1
Cincinnati scored 12 runs in the first four innings of the seven-inning affair, pounding out 15 hits en route to the game one victory. Senior Daniel Morari allowed eight runs, seven earned in three innings of action.

On the offensive side of the ball, six different Purple Eagles collected hits, including freshman Ryan McCauley's sixth-inning leadoff double. Cozier reached on an error and later scored on a fielder's choice off the bat of Wietlispach.

Cincinnati 7, Niagara 5
Wietlispach and Trevor Rutkowski both recorded three-hit games for the Purple Eagles, but a four-run fifth inning by Cincinnati erased a 4-0 Niagara lead as the bullpen let down Niagara in the nightcap.

Stykemain doubled home freshman catcher Wes Walker to give Niagara it's first lead of the series at 1-0 in the second inning. Wietlispach doubled home Rutkowski, who reached on a leadoff double, and Cozier, who singled to third, in the fourth inning and Rutkowski smacked an RBI-sinlge in the fifth inning, scoring Brian Deering to increase Niagara's lead to 4-0.

Senior starter Bill Rafferty had his best outing of the season, allowing just one hit and facing just one over the minimum through the first four innings, but ran into trouble in the bottom of the fifth as the Bearcats sent 10 batters to the plate. Rafferty got the first batter to fly out to right, but hit the next batter to start the UC comeback. He allowed back-to-back RBI base hits but struck out the No. 9 batter to come one out away from ending the threat.

Head coach Rob McCoy went to the bullpen in freshman Kody Kasper, but the rookie right-hander allowed four consecutive hits and the tying run in the fourth before recording his final out of the inning.

After Niagara regained the lead on a Deering RBI single, Kasper allowed a game-tying home run in the sixth and the go ahead run on an RBI triple in the seventh inning. Cincinnati would tack on an insurance run in the eighth inning in the 7-5 win.

The baseball team continues its Big East road trip with a Tuesday doubleheader at West Virginia.