Wabash played even with North Central College on the baseball diamonds at the Grand Park Sports Campus Sunday afternoon until a four-run seventh inning sent the Little Giants to a 7-3 to the third-ranked Cardinals.
 
Wabash (3-5) answered a one-run first inning by North Central (4-1) with a run of its own in the bottom half of the inning. Austin Simmers led off the inning with a single to center and scored three batters later on a sacrifice fly by Liam Patton. North Central added two more runs in the top of the fifth inning but once again the Little Giants had a response. Pinch-hitter Reece Bauer drilled a one-out double to left field and came home when Andrew Jumonville followed with a two-out double to right. Jumonville scored to tie the game at 3-3 on an RBI single off the bat of Blake Juerling.
 
The trouble came for Wabash in the next inning. The Cardinals plated four runs off reliever Eric Lakomek to take the lead which they would never relinquish. Lakomek suffered the loss after pitching 1-1/3 innings in relief of starter Dylan Scheid. Lakomek gave up four runs on four hits. He struck out two batters and walked one. Scheid pitched five innings of five-hit baseball. He gave up five hits and three runs to go with two walks and six strikeouts. Derek Haslett worked the final 2-2/3 innings, striking out two batters while limiting North Central to one hit and two walks.
 
Cameron Martin paced the offense with two of the Little Giants' six hits in the game.
 
Wabash will play a four-game weekend series at home against Trine University beginning Saturday, March 20 at noon at Goodrich Ballpark