The 12th-ranked Notre Dame baseball team fell to No. 6 Louisville on Friday as the two squads opened their weekend series.
After taking a 1-0 first-inning lead, the Irish surrendered five-straight runs to the Cardinals and were stuck playing from behind the rest of the afternoon.
Niko Kavadas had a pair more of RBI for Notre Dame as he worked a bases-loaded walk in the fifth inning, and hit his tenth home run of the season, a solo shot in the eighth inning that brought the score to 5-4.
BOT 8 | NIKO EN FUEGO 🔥🔥🔥@nikkavadas22 crushes his 6️⃣th home run in his last 6️⃣ games!!!
UL 5, ND 4
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📊 https://t.co/qnNpfzSuWr#GoIrish x #Rally pic.twitter.com/LrHS2HycN2— Notre Dame Baseball (@NDBaseball) March 26, 2021
The home run was Kavadas’s 34th of his career, tying him for the sixth-most in Notre Dame history.
The Cardinals were able to score a pair more runs in the top of the ninth inning however and the Irish couldn’t mount a ninth-inning rally.
John Michael Bertrand takes the mound for Notre Dame on Saturday as the Irish look to even up the series against one of the nation’s best.