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Kevin Osaki made six starts and
earned five no-decisions this season. |
Chapman senior righty Kevin Osaki earned his first
victory since returning from Tommy John surgery and Panthers' head
baseball coach Scott Laverty knocked off his former team with a 4-2
win over visiting Redlands at Hart Park on Friday afternoon.
Osaki scattered eight hits (five infield singles) and allowed
two runs.
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Eric Willey struck out a career-high ten batters to lead Wesley to a 1-0 CAC victory over Southern Virginia in the opening game of a very windy doubleheader on Friday at Bob Reed Field. The Knights defeated the Wolverines, 2-0 in the nightcap. Willey dominated Southern Virginia's hitters, allowing just three hits and a walk while throwing just 103 pitches, 77 for strikes, in all ten innings. Willey also retired 16 of the last 17 batters he faced.
Junior K.J. Parent tossed a complete-game shutout to lead MIT to a 6-0 win over Brandeis at Briggs Field. Parent allowed just six hits and one walk while striking out six as he recorded the first complete-game of his career. Junior Hayden Cornwell drove in three runs to lead the offense for the Engineers.
No. 24 Wheaton (Mass.) swept a pair of non-conference games against Bridgewater State by scores of 1-0 and 7-3, both seven innings, at Sidell Stadium. Wheaton pitching limited Bridgewater State to 9 hits on the day.
Keystone opened CSAC play by winning a pair of games against Centenary in a doubleheader played at Diamond Nation in Flemington, NJ. The Giants claimed a 9-7 win in Friday's opener before winning the nightcap 10-0.
| Steven Giustino led Mt. St.
Vincent with four hits in game two on Friday. Mt. St. Vincent athletics photo |
Behind complete game shutouts from both Cristian Lynch and Evan Brown, the College of Mount Saint Vincent swept Yeshiva in a Skyline Conference doubleheader by scores of 13-0 and 24-0. Keith Schroeher scored six times for the Mount over the two games.
Carleton received a stellar outing from starter Jack Violetta and notched a come-from-behind victory, topping host Nebraska Wesleyan, 3-2 in 10 innings. Violetta collected eight strikeouts without a walk over his 9.0 innings on the hill. David Stillerman got the Knights’ tenth inning rally started when his double kicked up chalk along the left-field line. The Carleton leadoff hitter advanced to third on Willie Freimuth’s sacrifice bunt and scored via Hayden Tsutsui’s flyball to right field.
Keuka and Lancaster Bible opened their NEAC opening series with Keuka prevailing, 10-7. Trailing 3-2 going into the bottom of the eighth inning, the Chargers scored five times with two outs to take a 7-3 lead, highlighted by a Justin Taylor home run. Keuka responded, aided by two walks and three hit batters for the three run victory.
Visiting Bowdoin spoiled Trinity’s (Conn.) home opener, beating the Bantams, 4-2, in NESCAC action at Campus Field. In cold and rainy conditions, Bowdoin’s Erik Jacobsen tossed seven impressive innings, scattering six hits and striking out a pair for his second win of the year.
Suffolk powered their way to 7-5 victory over the Salem State Vikings at the Central Campus Baseball Field. JC Collette hit a grand slam and Devan Jones added a solo shot, as Suffolk improves to 5-7-1 on the year. The loss slips Salem State to 7-10.
| Brooks Fortenberry's shutout
was the first for an MC pitcher since Austin Trehern
pulled off the same feat last season. Mississippi College photo by Aaron Boerama |
A week after coming one out away from a complete game shutout, junior Brooks Fortenberry finished the job with a five-hit, six-strikeout performance in an 8-0 victory for Mississippi College over Ozarks on Friday afternoon at Lonnie R. Qualls Field. The win gave the Choctaws (10-11, 8-8 ASC) a five-game win streak, their longest since a five-game run from April 8-15, 2011. That streak included a three-game sweep of Ozarks three years ago. Trehern made his only career start in the complete-game effort.
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In their first of two regular season games against Southern Maine, the Gulls scored early and often en route to a 16-7 victory over the Huskies on North Field. The Blue and Green got two five-RBI performances from senior catcher EJ Martinez and junior second baseman Harry Oringer.