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| Franklin and Marshall took two from No. 10 Johns Hopkins Franklin and Marshall athletics photo |
Franklin & Marshall scored a come-from-behind victory in the first game before cruising in the second in a doubleheader takedown of No. 10 Johns Hopkins on Sunday afternoon in Centennial Conference (CC) action. The Diplomats improved to 2-0, 2-0 CC following the 2-1 and 7-0 victories, while the Blue Jays dropped to 0-2, 0-2 CC. Despite putting the leadoff batter on first base in the six out of seven innings, F&M was stymied until the eighth, when they knotted the game at 1-1. A pitching change did little to break the Diplomat hitting, as Will Samuel punched a single back up the middle, scoring pinch runner Drew Butera. Stephen Turzai shut the door in the top of the 9th for his first save of the year. In all, seven Diplomats combined for seven hits, drawing three walks from Blue Jay pitching. Kyle Roche (1-0) twirled a solid six innings in game two, allowing only two hits while punching out nine. Greg Nieskens and Thomas McLaughlin combined for three innings to complete the shutout. Drew Butera paced the lineup with a 2-for-4 effort, knocking in one and scoring once. Steven Rizzo also finished with a two-hit afternoon after being inserted mid-way through.
Matt Ozanic tied the game at 1-1 with an RBI double in the ninth and Kyle Wise knocked in the go-ahead runs with a two-run single in the 10th Sunday as Augustana rallied for a 3-2 win over sixth-ranked North Central at Zimmerman Stadium. Coach Greg Wallace's club also got tremendous pitching efforts from Alec Michaelson and John Hayes to improve to 9-2 on the season and 1-2 in the CCIW. The host Cardinals moved to 7-2 overall and 3-1 in the league. The hosts pushed across an unearned run against Augustana starter Michaelson in the third and that would be the only run through eight innings. Michaelson gave up six hits and just the unearned run in seven-plus innings. He walked one and struck out three. Hayes surrendered two hits and fanned six in three innings, allowing only the unearned tiebreaker run, and earned the win in his first decision of the year. Schaefer (0-1) suffered the loss.
Adrian College hosted the Albion College Britons in the 2021 home opener on Sunday afternoon. The Bulldog bats were hot coming away with an 18-8 wins to bounce back after a 0-2 performance the day before. Hunter Smith moved to 2-0 on the year on the bump. Adrian trailed 1-0 after the top of the first, but grabbed a 3-1 lead on a home run from Gunner Rainey to drive in three. The Bulldogs took a 7-1 lead in the third on two RBI singles and a two RBI triple. Albion cut the Bulldog lead to two in the fourth, but Adrian battled around and finished the inning with an 11-5 lead. The Bulldogs added four more in the seventh on a sacrifice fly from Joe Casale and a three-run homer from Brandon Cooper to lead 16-8.
The 20th ranked NC Wesleyan College Bishops finished off a conference-opening sweep of Greensboro College on Sunday defeating the Pride 6-4 and 6-2 in the doubleheader from Bauer Field. The wins over the weekend stretched the Bishops' win streak to 8 straight while improving them to 15-2 overall and 3-0 in conference play. In the opener, three consecutive run-scoring hits in the 8th then put the Bishops over the top for the win. Jackson Murray finished the game going 3 for 3 with 2 doubles while Davie Morgan went 2 for 4. Picking up the game two win on the mound was senior Drew Tubb as he tossed five innings of 4-hit one-run ball to grab his 1st win of the season. Tubb walked one and struck out four. Freshman reliever Danny Thompson then came in to close the game striking out two in his scoreless ninth inning.
The 23rd-ranked College of Wooster book-ended Sunday's doubleheader at Ohio Wesleyan University's Littick Field with four-run innings, only to have two different end results, with the Fighting Scots' strong start in game one equating to a 10-5 win, while the seventh-inning rally in the nightcap wasn't enough, as the Battling Bishops took the series finale 9-7. Ohio Wesleyan's game-two win snapped Wooster's 20-game series winning streak, which dated back to May 7, 2011.
Webster University recorded 20 hits, including six extra base hits here Sunday afternoon en route to scoring 19 runs in sweeping a St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader against Blackburn College at Blackburn Field. The No. 8-ranked Gorloks opened Sunday's doubleheader by using 15 hits, including six base hits and another standout starting pitching performance from graduate student All-American pitcher Matt Mulhearn (Chicago Heights, Ill./Marian Catholic) to post a 16-2 win that was halted in the seventh due to the 10-run mercy rule and then used another strong pitching effort from freshman J.T. Miller (Centennial, Colo./Regis Jesuit) in posting a 3-0 win in the nightcap.
For the second straight day, the 11th-ranked University of Southern Maine Huskies swept the Husson Eagles in a non-conference baseball doubleheader at the Winkin Complex on Sunday. The Huskies took the opening game 13-1 before completing the sweep with a 5-2 win in the nightcap. The Huskies swept the four-game weekend series from the Eagles to open the season 4-0. The Eagles fall to 0-4. Senior Gage Feeney and four relievers combined to spin a three-hitter. Feeney went the first five innings allowing one run on two hits to earn his 17th career win. Feeney walked none and struck out seven. In the nightcap, the Huskies used a three-run uprising in the fifth inning to snap a 2-2 tie and went on to the 5-2 win.
Birmingham-Southern rebounded from an opening 5-4 loss to win game two 2-1 in their final day Southern Athletic Association play against Centre College. The teams split the series 2-2. BSC is now 15-8 overall, 7-5 in conference. Alfredo Granier finished with a team-best four hits, going .571 at the plate. Troy Bearden received the game one loss, and Tristan Harvin picked up the complete game win, striking out a team-high nine batters and allowing just one run.
No. 3 Washington University concluded its three-game sweep of DePauw University with a 9-4 win on Sunday. This is the first 8-0 start in program history since 2006. Senior Jared Fong pulled off the win after pitching five innings, striking out six of the 18 batters that he faced from the mound. Junior Tim Van Kirk put the first run on the board in the first with junior Zac Styka's single. Styka then scored himself after a hit from fellow junior Bo Anderson. The Tigers found two runs in the top of the fourth to tie up the score. The Bears countered in the bottom of the inning with a two-run double from Van Kirk to put the team back up 4-2. Anderson hit his first homer of the season in the bottom of the fifth. In the seventh inning, freshman Clayton Miller recorded his second RBI-double of the weekend and scored off of fellow freshman Jack Miller's single through the left side. Styka scored for the second time of the day from a single from senior Johnny LaMantia. C. Miller hit a sacrifice fly to left field to advance freshman Harry Mauterer home for the final run of the game. The Bears secured the 9-4 win with sophomore Kyle Coates striking out the final batter.