SPRING ARBOR, Mich. -- The Crossroads League Baseball Tournament is underway as it began at four campus sites today. No. 6-seed Indiana Wesleyan University played at No. 3-seed Spring Arbor (Mich.) and lost 10-0 in seven innings.

Tournament games are nine inning affairs and the first game for each team is at the higher seed’s home field. Today’s IWU game was shortened to seven innings due to the 10 run SAU lead after seven innings. The eight team tournament is broken into two four team brackets with the winners of each bracket playing for the championship. The rest of the tournament will be played at two sites, at Taylor (Ind.) and at Huntington (Ind.).

Indiana Wesleyan is a part of the Taylor Bracket and will next play an elimination game against No. 2-seed Taylor, who lost 9-8 to No. 7-seed Marian (Ind.) after surrendering six runs in the ninth inning. That game will be contested at 10 a.m. on Monday while Spring Arbor plays Marian at 1 p.m.

The Wildcat bats struggled today with just three hits. Only two Wildcats reached second base on Saturday as Cody Calvert (JR/Godfrey, Ill.) hit a two-out double in the first inning and Caleb Birkey (SO/Granger, Ind.) walked in the sixth inning and stole second base. Logan Tomlinson (FR/Trabuco Canyon, Calif.) accounted for two of the three IWU hits.

Matt Blankenship (SO/Cincinnati, Ohio) was the losing pitcher for Indiana Wesleyan as he allowed six runs -- five earned -- on 10 hits in 5.0 innings. Marcus Price (FR/Hartford City, Ind.) relieved Blankenship in the sixth inning and allowed four runs in 1.1 innings. Spring Arbor scored twice in the seventh inning to trigger the run rule.

Indiana Wesleyan falls to 18-33 this season while Spring Arbor improves to 28-15.