North Park stuns top ranked Cougars - D3baseball

Mary Hardin-Baylor grabbed an early lead and then held off a late Texas Lutheran rally as the Cru posted a 5-4 victory over the 5^th-ranked Bulldogs Tuesday night in Seguin. UMHB improves to 10-24 on the season with the win. The loss drops TLU to 27-9 on the year.
East Texas Baptist athletics photo

North Park upset the nation's top-ranked Concordia-Chicago on the road Tuesday afternoon. Left fielder Brandon Davis battled through a full-count walk to bring third baseman Justin Woolbright to the plate. Sitting on a mistake curve ball, Woolbright sent a double down the left-field line as the Vikings had a pair of runners in scoring position with no outs. Putting North Park ahead by two, Richie Silva and Logan Peters tallied back-to-back sacrifice flies to bring home Cantu and Woolbright, as the Vikings were in the driver's seat moving to the bottom of the 12th. Moving on to his fifth inning of work, Banks would earn all three outs via strikeout as the Vikings upset the top-ranked Cougars, 9-7.

Eighteen hits, including Danny Carter's grand slam,
allowed William Paterson (21-13) to seize control
early and never look back, running away with a 21-0
home victory against Farmingdale State (26-7).
William Paterson athletics photo

Ithaca traveled to Oswego State and came away with a 3-1 non-conference victory to improve to 23-7 on the season, while Oswego falls to 22-12. The Bombers have now won four straight games and 11 of their last 13. Senior Emmett Dunn highlighted the afternoon for IC as he tossed eight fabulous innings with 10 strikeouts and just one earned run on four hits allowed with one walk. Dunn, who is now 5-2 on the season, retired 14 straight batters before allowing a hit in the fifth inning. He then tossed perfect sixth and eighth innings before exiting the game. Senior Matt Eiel entered in relief in the ninth and tossed a perfect frame with one strikeout for his second save of the year. Eiel has now gone 14 consecutive innings without allowing a run.

A pair of crucial, late-inning insurance runs allowed Franklin & Marshall to move one step closer to a Centennial Conference Playoff berth with a narrow 6-4 road win over Ursinus. The Diplomats claimed their fourth-consecutive CC tilt, moving into sole possession of second place in the standings with a 23-12, 10-5 CC mark, while the Bears fell to 17-16, 7-8 CC. With just three regular-season Centennial contests remaining, F&M holds a two-game edge over Muhlenberg who currently sits in fifth place with an 8-7 CC mark.

Junior tri-captain C Alex Rodriguez went 3-for-5 with three runs, a double, a stolen base, and three RBIs to lead the Trinity Bantams to a 10-5 victory over the visiting Amherst on Murren Family Field at DiBenedetto Stadium. Trinity improves to 24-5 with its fifth win in a row, heading into a three-game home series against New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) East Division rival Tufts beginning on Friday at 3 p.m. Amherst falls to 14-11 with its third consecutive setback. The Mammoths host Springfield on Thursday.

Buena Vista kept pace in the American Rivers Conference standings on Tuesday night by picking up yet another series win after sweeping a doubleheader from visiting Nebraska Wesleyan by scores of 8-1 and 9-4. Buena Vista improves to 17-16 overall and has now won five straight games overall and seven straight on its home turf. The sweep of Nebraska Wesleyan pushes the team's conference mark to 10-8 and has it tied with the University of Dubuque for third in the league standings, just two games back of second-place Luther.

Franklin continued their lengthy road trip on Tuesday afternoon,
heading north for a pair of contests against NAIA in-state foe St.
Francis.The Grizzlies (21-11) picked up their third and fourth wins in
the last two days, sweeping the Panthers (13-36). Freshman Nick
Elmendorf (pictured) tossed a complete game shutout in the opener
and Sam Claycamp knocked in a pair of runs with two doubles in a 3-0
win in the seven inning affair.
Franklin athletics photo by Dan Doles

Millikin picked up a 17-4 non-conference win at Greenville in Greenville, Illinois. The Big Blue scored two runs in the first inning and then broke open the game with a seven run second inning. Millikin pounded out 17 hits with Andrew Auton, Mason Bruce and Gabe Soria each picking up three hits. Auton had two RBI. Luke Azzarelli and Jon Walters each had two hits and two RBI. Brent Beals had three RBI and Frank Bryan homered to the Big Blue driving home two. Derek Kortemeier picked up the victory for the Big Blue throwing five innings allowing six hits and three runs (one earned) while striking out four. Logan Talkington had a hitless inning of relief with three strikeouts. Freshman Austin Hitchcock pitched the final two and two-thirds scoreless innings for Millikin allowing one hit while striking out seven. Ryan Taylor had three hits to lead the Panthers.

Immaculata extended its current win streak to five with a 7-4 victory at Penn State Berks in the first game of this week's home-and-home series with the Nittany Lions behind a strong start on the mound from senior Zach Smiley - who picked up his third win of the season in his second start while lowering his team-leading earned run average to 2.14. Smiley alllowed one run on five hits in his five innings of work, while fellow seniors Connor Blesi and Tom Prato backed him at the plate as Blesi homered for the third time this season with a solo shot in the sixth while Prato turned in a three-hit day including a run-scoring double in the first. With today's non-conference victory, the Mighty Macs have now won nine of their last 11 games.

Keuka extended their winning streak to eight games with a 5-4 victory over Houghton College at Kuhl Field. Keuka College (16-13) was led by three hits and two runs batted in by Tyler Freedman. Freedman also scored a pair of runs as did Brooks Vertoske who finished with a pair of triples.

No. 4 Rowan shut out York (PA), 6-0 on Tuesday afternoon. The Profs improve to 25-7 overall. Right-hander Jeremy Dyzenhaus pitched a complete scoreless game in the win, allowing five hits and striking out eight batters. Catcher Steven Hewa led the way with two hits, a home run and three runs batted in (RBI). Center fielder Matt Woods contributed two homers, while first baseman Anthony Harrold posted two hits and scored once. Shortstop Dillon Mendel and second baseman Nick Schooley registered one hit apiece. For the Spartans (24-9), shortstop Austin Denlinger produced two hits.

Robbie Edwards hit a two-run home run in the top of
the ninth as Roanoke defeated Ferrum 7-6 on Tuesday.
Roanoke athletics photo

Senior RJ Hennessey threw a complete-game eight-hitter and was supported by a 15-hit attack as the Muhlenberg baseball team improved its playoff chances with a 13-4 win at Dickinson. With three games remaining in the regular season, the Mules (18-15, 8-7) are in sole possession of fifth place in the Centennial Conference, a game behind Dickinson and Haverford. The top four teams make the playoffs. Muhlenberg is scheduled to host Dickinson (22-11, 9-6) on Friday before playing a doubleheader at ninth-place Gettysburg on Saturday. Hennessey (pictured above) allowed three earned runs and struck out four in his second career nine-inning complete game. He retired 13 straight batters from the fourth through eighth innings en route to his 11th career win.

Saint Mary's (Minn.) experienced the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat — and the thrill of victory — in the span of two innings Tuesday afternoon. Deadlocked at 3-3 heading to the seventh and final inning of Game 1 in their doubleheader against Augsburg, the Cardinals took the lead in dramatic fashion — as Matthew Piechowski launched a two-out home run. A pair of Saint Mary's miscues in the bottom of the seventh, however, led to an Augsburg run — and sent the game into extra innings. Saint Mary's took a page out of the Auggies' book in the top of the eighth, scoring on a two-out fielding error — and Jake Kramlinger set Augsburg down in order in the bottom of the eighth to preserve the Cardinals' 5-4, come-from-behind victory. It was another nailbiter in the nightcap — and again, it was the Cardinals to come away with the one-run win. The game was all about a pitchers' duel between Cardinal starter Luke Gilbertson and Augsburg's Dylan Irving.

New Jersey City rode seven strong innings from senior right-handed pitcher Fernando Guerrero in game one and defeated Montclair State, 5-2, in the opening game of a New Jersey Athletic Conference doubleheader played at Kean University's Jim Hynes `63 Stadium. MSU jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the nightcap and edged NJCU, 5-1. The doubleheader, rained out in Jersey City on Saturday, moved to Little Falls on Monday before being rained out a second time, was moved to Kean—a neutral-site with lights—earlier in the day and started at 4:30 p.m. with NJCU serving as the home team on the scoreboard in both games. With the split, NJCU is 13-16 overall and 3-11 in the NJAC. Montclair drops to 11-22 and 2-12 NJAC.