Right fielder Kainan Bayn homered for the second consecutive game, but the Hope College baseball team was edged by one run by Kalamazoo College for the second time in three days on Wednesday.

The Flying Dutchmen lost, 5-4, at MIAA-leading Kalamazoo in the second of three nine-inning games this season. The Hornets won, 15-14 in 11 innings, at Hope on Monday.

Bayn (Zeeland, Michigan / Zeeland East HS) blasted a solo homer to lead off the seventh inning to bring the Flying Dutchmen within a run.

Hope (11-13, 4-4 MIAA) advanced the tying run to third later in the inning with two outs but reliever Brenden Oprinksi entered and fired a strikeout to end the threat. Oprinksi then retired the final six Flying Dutchmen, including four more on strikeouts, to end the game.

Both teams finished with eight hits. 

Bayn, a senior, went 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Junior shortstop Devin Meeuwsen (Rockford, Michigan / Grand Rapids Christian) and senior catcher Caleb Regan (Grand Rapids, Michigan / Byron Center) both collected two hits as well.

Regan's second-inning double scored Meeuwsen and gave Hope a 2-0 lead. Regan later came home on a sacrifice fly by sophomore third baseman Al Money (Midland, Michigan / Midland).

Kalamazoo (19-6, 7-1 MIAA) took the lead with a four-run fourth off starter Matt Plaehn (Okemos, Michigan / Lansing Catholic) that was capped by Lucas Bolton's RBI sacrifice bunt.

Cam Kelly added an RBI single in the fifth for the Hornets.

Hope reliever Tyler Roberts (Kalamazoo, Michigan / Loy Norrix) tossed three innings of one-hit, scoreless relief. The freshman struck out three of the seven batters he faced.

The Flying Dutchmen are scheduled to open a three-game series against Olivet College on Friday, April 14, at 4 p.m. at Olivet. Hope will host the Comets for a doubleheader on Saturday, April 15, at 1 p.m. at Boeve Stadium.