As season ends, teams set wins record

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Kyle Beldoch allowed just one unearned run over 6.2 innings against Messiah.
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A wild pitch gave Hamilton a 6-5 win over SUNYIT and a 16th win, setting a new single-season record. Along with the Continentals, the Gettysburg Bullets also set a new program record with a 12-4 win over Messiah. The Bullets have a contest on Friday against Haverford in which they will have the opportunity to add to their record total.

The Warhawks swept their non-conference doubleheader with of St. Scholastica, 15-5 and 5-3, at Miller Stadium at Prucha Field in Whitewater. As important as the two wins were, the Warhawks may have had an eye on a score further north. In conference action UW-Oshkosh defeated UW-Stevens Point, 12-7, thus delivering the good news that the Warhawks have claimed the outright regular season title in the WIAC.

Eight pitchers combined to allow only four hits over the nine innings, and Olivet defeated Rochester College, 15-4, in non-conference action today at the Cutler Athletic Complex in Olivet. Offensively, Olivet recorded 18 hits. Andrew Brawley led the way with three hits, including two doubles, and three RBI.

Five Vikings rapped out two hits as Augustana picked up a 9-2 non-conference win over Grinnell at Swanson Stadium/Brunner Field. The 21st-ranked Vikings improve to 27-8 this season, while the Pioneers fall to 13-19.

No. 15 Ithaca won its fifth game in five days, all at home, with a 15-5 victory over St. Lawrence at Freeman Field. The Bombers scored three runs in each of four different innings and scored at least one run in six of the eight innings in which they batted. Ithaca's 15 runs matched its second-highest total of the season and the Bombers totaled 29 runs over the last two games.

Washington (Mo.) scored a season-high 14 runs, including seven in the second inning, en route to a 14-1 win at Rose-Hulman. Washington sent 13 batters to the plate in the top of the second inning, scoring seven runs on seven hits and three walks in the inning to build a 7-0 lead.

Freshman Joe Killian tied the program's second highest single-game total with a career-high seven RBI in the nightcap of Allegheny's doubleheader sweep over Pitt-Bradford.  Killian would help usher the Gators to an 11-2 win in the first game before the Allegheny pitching staff combined for a two-hitter, 11-0 win in the second game.

Killian finished the two-game slate batting 3-for-6, slugging 1.000 percent for the Gators while finishing with eight total RBIs between the two games.

Sophomore Nick Fischer had two hits and knocked in two runs in the win over Muhlenberg on Wednesday.
DeSales athletics photo by Pat Jacoby

DeSales scored four times in the sixth inning and three more times in the seventh en route to a 10-2 win over local rival Muhlenberg giving the Bulldogs 30 wins for the fifth time in school-history and the first time since the 2005 season.

Sophomore pitcher Stephen Lapatin hurled eight strong innings as Rhode Island held off a ninth-inning rally to defeat MIT, 9-5, played at Anchorman Field on Wednesday afternoon. Lapatin allowed four runs on five hits, to go along with four walks and three strikeouts, to earn his second win in 8.2 innings of work.

York banged out 15 hits against 12 different Johns Hopkins pitchers as the Spartans posted a 10-3 upset of the No. 6 Blue Jays in Baltimore. The Spartans snap a two-game losing skid and a two-game losing streak against the Blue Jays.

No. 10 Webster took a break from its conference schedule to take on Illinois State, and the Redbirds shut down the Gorloks, 10-0 in Normal, Ill.  The seven-inning loss to the NCAA I Redbirds snapped Webster's 11-game win streak.  Webster is 29-8 overall on the season.

Webster managed just one hit off Illinois State.  Redbirds starter Steve Heilenbach was too much for the Gorloks, retiring the first 18 batters he faced.  A Charlie Gandolfi (SO, Mundelein HS, IL) pinch hit to lead off the seventh inning was the only Gorlok runner to reach base.

The 16th-ranked Southern Maine Huskies erased a 4-0 deficit with three runs in the sixth inning, and six more in the seventh, to defeat the Bates Bobcats 9-4 in a non-conference game at Leahey Field. The Huskies rose to 31-6 with their sixth consecutive win, while the Bobcats dipped under the .500 mark settling at 15-16 with their second loss in a row.

After completing a grueling 16-game conference schedule that saw them finish 14-2, the Ripon baseball team stepped out of conference play Wednesday afternoon, winning a pair of games at Edgewood College, 11-5 and 3-2. Ripon recorded nine extra base hits in the two games combined, with eight of those going for doubles.

Eureka hosted Blackburn in its final home doubleheader of the 2013 season. The Red Devils dropped the opener to the Beavers, 16-3 in eight innings, and also fell in game two, 11-4, in a game shortened to six innings due to darkness.  In game one, Blackburn broke a scoreless tie with two runs in the third inning tacked on nine more runs in the fourth to put the contest out of reach. Donny Fuhrhop's two-run triple ignited Blackburn's 11-run outburst in the first inning of game two which proved to be too many runs to overcome.

Senior Justin Hyland smashed two home runs to lift Anna Maria to a 7-5 win over Becker in non-conference action at Rochdale Park. The win ups the AMCATS record to 15-19 while the Hawks fall to 11-24.

Senior Zach Scott had four hits with two doubles and junior Bobby Czarnowski had five runs batted in as Illinois Wesleyan clubbed Rockford, 12-2, in a game shortened to seven innings in Rockford. Wesleyan, who banged out 17 hits, got off to a great start with five runs in the first, then added three in the third and four more in the fourth.

UW-La Crosse split a WIAC doubleheader with UW-Stout at North Campus Field. The Eagles won the opener, 11-4, before the Blue Devils came back to take the nightcap, 7-5. UW-La Crosse is now 16-15 overall and 8-9 in the WIAC while UW-Stout is 10-23 overall and 4-14 in the conference.