It's Monday, lets play three

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In the first of three games, LeTourneau defeated Sul Ross State 2-1 in 12 innings.
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Sul Ross State and LeTourneau played a weekends worth of games on Monday for a total of 28 innings.  The YellowJackets  bookended a 4-1 loss with a 2-1 win in 12 innings in the opener and a 10-1 win in the final game in the three game set.

Augustana battered seven Illinois Wesleyan pitchers for 18 hits Monday as the Vikings defeated the Titans 18-3 at Horenberger Field. Junior center fielder Nathan Gray went 4-for-6 with two doubles, four runs scored and two RBI.

Keystone took advantage of six walks and one costly error to pick up a 3-1 victory at Marywood  despite being held to just three hits in a key CSAC game. Jesse Arnold scattering eight hits and striking out seven batters over seven innings of work for Keystone. Felix Baez, who struck out the side in the ninth inning, picked up his first save of the season.

Everyone in Tuft's starting line-up had a hit as the Jumbos finished with 17 overall in a 14-1 seven-inning victory over UMass Dartmouth at Huskins Field. Senior 1B James Howard went 4-for-4 with three RBI and two runs scored, while senior DH Bryan Egan finished at 3-for-4 with his second home run, three RBI and three runs. The Jumbos and Corsairs were scheduled to play a doubleheader, but rain forced the postponement of game two.

Mary Hardin-Baylor used the same formula in both games and came out a winner both times as the Cru used a pair of big innings late to sweep a doubleheader from East Texas Baptist in Marshall. UMHB won game one 7-6 and took game two 4-1 in ten innings.

Michael Staes pitched five innings for the Polar Bears and recorded seven strikeouts.
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Bowdoin captured a 10-4 victory in rain shortened six-inning game on against Thomas. Bowdoin scored four in the first inning to take control and a five run fifth to put the game away as Michael Staes stymied the Terrier offense.

Two four run innings propelled the Johns Hopkins offense past the Alvernia Crusaders, en route to a 15-3 win at Babb Field this afternoon. In the win, Craig Hoelzer extended his hit streak to 11 games, while Conor Reynolds pushed his to seven.

On a cold and drizzly afternoon, Maine-Farmington was held without a run in back-to-back contests for the first time this season. Fisher shutout the Beavers, 10-0, in game one and 4-0 in game two in a non-conference doubleheader at Hippach Field. Riley Chickering battled the conditions with six strong innings with three strikeouts while issuing one walk in the loss. Mark Leahy started game two for the Beavers and pitched 5.2 innings and gave up three runs on nine hits with one strikeout.

Mount Aloysius was defeated by scores of 10-4 and 11-10 by D-II Indiana University of Pennsylvania in non-conference action at home. Bryn Brown went 2-for-4 with two runs scored in game one and added two more hits in the nightcap.

Luciano Villanueva's ninth inning home run was the difference in the game as Dallas took a series from Austin with a 10-9 win on the road. Both the Roo's and Crusaders traded five run innings and searched for a pitcher that could hold down the offenses. Dallas finally found Trevor Keele in the bullpen who pitched four scoreless innings for the win.