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KENT, Ohio - The Miami baseball team was on the losing end of a pitchers' duel at Kent State on Friday as the Golden Flashes snuck past the RedHawks, 2-1, at Schoonover Stadium.

Miami's Shane Smith and Kent State's Eli Kraus were dealing for their respective clubs. Smith went seven innings and allowed two runs on four hits to take the tough-luck loss. Kraus tossed 6.1 frames and was tagged for just one run on three RedHawk hits.

The Golden Flashes (32-13, 16-3 MAC) capitalized on a one-out Miami error in the sixth, which put a runner on before an RBI triple to the right field gap put KSU on the board. The Flashes followed with a sacrifice fly to grab a 2-0 margin through six frames of action.

Miami (20-31, 6-13 MAC) answered right back in the sixth, cutting the deficit in half on an RBI groundout by Cal Elvers. Landon Stephens led off the inning with a double before tagging up and reaching third on a deep fly out the next at-bat. Elvers brought him in with a chopper to the left side. Unfortunately, that would be the lone run the Red & White offense would produce on a day where scoring came at a premium. Game two of the series is set for Saturday at 4 p.m.