Hilltopper baseball falls at Louisville

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – WKU Baseball (19-18) fell to Louisville (21-16) 7-3 Tuesday evening at Jim Patterson Stadium.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Cardinals opened the scoring in the first inning on a base hit with two out in the inning to take a 1-0 lead. A double would give the Cardinals a two run lead but a Hayden Robbins, Manny Alberto, JP Acosta relay throw ended the threat in the first.
• Hayden Robbins led off the Hilltopper second and homered to left field on a 2-2 count to cut the deficit to one.
• A two run second followed by a three run fourth for Louisville put the home team up by six runs.
• Both teams went scoreless for the next four frames but with no out in the eighth a double down the left-field line off the bat of Kyle Hayes scored Lane Arroyos from first to cut it to five.
• Logan Luckett followed with an RBI-double off the wall in right center field to score Hayes, marking the first extra-base hit of the year for Luckett.

NOTABLES

• With the loss, the Hilltoppers fall to 19-18 on the year.
• WKU is now 71-77 all-time against the Cardinals and 35-48 in Louisville.
• Zach Lyles started on the mound for WKU on Tuesday.
• Dawson Hall, Gage Olsen, Ka’olu Holt, Dominic Monaco, Nathan Lawson, Trey Reinburg, and Jacob O’Day all saw work out of the bullpen.
• Trey Reinburg tossed 1.0 inning of scoreless and hitless work in relief, throwing two strikeouts in the effort.
• Austin Haller led the offensive effort, finishing 2-for-5.
• For Haller, it was his 13th multi-hit game of 2026 and his fifth in the last seven games.
• Logan Luckett finished 1-for-1, subbing into the game in the sixth. His double Tuesday marks the first of his Hilltopper career. Luckett added an RBI in the effort.
• Kyle Hayes and Hayden Robbins both finished with one hit, a run, and an RBI.
• For Robbins, all of his came on a solo home run in the second inning, his third of the year.
• Grayson Godbee recorded his first hit as a Hilltopper on Tuesday. He finished 1-for-2.

NEXT UP

WKU will continue the road-swing, traveling to Missouri State for a three-game series starting Friday, April 17. First pitch from Hammons Field is slated for 6:30 p.m. CT and will be streaming on ESPN+ with audio on the Varsity Network.