After Denison opened the 2014 North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament with a 5-3 win over Allegheny on Thursday night the Big Red were riding high.  Twenty-four hours later Denison's season had come to a close after a pair of losses to Wooster and DePauw from Chillicothe.  The Big Red ends the year with a 21-21 ledger after a 16-5 loss to the Scots and a 12-1 defeat at the hands of the Tigers.

In Friday's opening game, Wooster scored twice in the first and added another in the second to build a 3-0 lead through an inning and half. Denison cut into the deficit when junior Nick Marsit ripped a single through the left side that scored senior Andrew Touhy from third base. The Fighting Scots strung together eight-consecutive runs over the course of four innings to build an 11-1 lead.

Junior Charlie Apfelbach led off the bottom of the sixth with his fourth home run of the season, while a Ryan Loehnert pinch-hit single scored Mulligan from second base. Wooster outscored Denison 5-2 in the final three frames to secure its spot in the NCAC Championship game. Denison's final two runs came in the seventh and eighth innings via bases-loaded walk to Touhy and a Georgie Montes single to left center, respectively.

Marsit and Apfelbach both finished 3-for-4 with an RBI.  Marsit also touched the dish twice, while Apfelbach came around to score one run. Touhy went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run, while Montes and Loehnert each drove in a run. Denison starter Ian Barry suffered the loss after allowing eight runs (four earned) on six hits with two strikeouts and three walks in four innings of work.

Eddie Reese paced the Wooster offense with two home runs, four RBIs and two runs, while Bryan Miller also went 3-for-4 with a double, an RBI and a run. Starter Matt Felvey earned the win after giving up three runs on six hits in 5.1 innings.

With the loss to Wooster, Denison fell to the losers bracket and would face DePauw at 7:30 p.m. after the Tigers sealed up Allegheny's exit with a victory in their 4 p.m. elimination game.

DePauw starter Wyatt Spector scattered seven hits over six innings and allowed only one run to improve to 5-3 in his third start of the season against DU.  The Tigers utilized a five-run first and would add two more runs in the third.  That 7-0 lead would be plenty for DePauw who would advance to Saturday's NCAC Championship round with the win.

Denison starter Johnny Funkhouser took the loss.  Montes was 3-for-5 and Ryan Mulligan was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk.  DePauw was led by Connor Einertson who was 5-for-5 with two triples, two doubles, four RBIs and three runs scored.