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| SUNY Brockport clinched a spot in the upcoming SUNYAC Conference Tournament and Tom Kretzler (pictured) broke the program-record for career home runs as the Golden Eagles split a pair of league games on the road at Cortland Monday afternoon. Kretzler's fifth inning grand slam set the new program standard (21) as Brockport rolled to a 9-4 victory in game one. Cortland responded with 9-1 game two victory to earn the series split. Brockport athletics photo |
Freshman Cam Seymour went 5 for 8 at the plate with five doubles and three RBI as the University of Southern Maine Huskies swept a doubleheader from the visiting Plymouth State University Panthers at Ed Flaherty Field Monday afternoon. The Huskies snapped a 3-3 tie scoring five times in the eighth inning to take an 8-3 Little East Conference victory in the opening game. In the second half of the twin bill, five USM hurlers combined for a six-hit, 11-0 shutout. The second game was a non-conference contest. The two wins extended the Huskies' winning streak to six games and improved their record to 21-8 overall and 9-4 in LEC play. The Panthers slip to 8-11 overall and 4-8 on conference play. The two teams are scheduled to play another doubleheader at Plymouth State on Thursday.
Sophomore Justin Winterfeldt launched a pair of homers to left as his four-RBI day helped Bethel take the rubber game of the series, 11-2. Winterfeld sent a three-run no doubter over the left field fence in the fourth breaking a 1-1 tie. Nick Wibben got in on the party at home plate getting ahold of a 3-2 pitch that carried its way over the left field fence making it 6-1. After Concordia got a run back in the sixth, Winterfeldt gave it right back with a leadoff shot this time to left-center. That bomb sparked a four-run sixth for the Royals before tallying another in the seventh. Along with Winterfeldt, Nick Wibben and Ty Koehn each had multi-hit days while driving in a run. Matthew Bohlke (5-1) tossed a solid six innings of work giving up two runs on five hits and striking out five. He got shutout relief work from Ty Koehn in the seventh and eighth while Brett Carlson closed out the ninth.
George Fox baseball leveled its season series against Linfield after sweeping a doubleheader on Monday. George Fox Got things going with single runs in the first and second innings. Jeremy Sangalang drew a leadoff walk and would score on an RBI groundout from Chase Fetzer in the first, and Derek Williams launched his first collegiate homer in the second inning to make it 2-0. Linfield tied it with two solo tallies in the third and fifth frames, but four Bruin runs in the fifth made it a 6-2 game. Franklin Leonard, Sangalang, Matthew Sebolsky, and Marc Audet hit four straight singles in the inning while Fetzer and Brandon King each drew walks to keep the rally going. The Bruins gave back all four runs in the eighth and ninth frames and surrendered a fifth unanswered run in the 10th, falling behind 7-6. An Audet single paired with a costly Linfield error plated Sebolsky and a walk-off RBI single from Fetzer ended game one, 8-7, in the bottom of the tenth. Game two was all Bruins for most of the way, powered in large part by the long ball. Spencer Roos broke a scoreless tie in the third with his first career homer, a bomb launched to left center, after an 0-1 count for a 1-0 lead. After a leadoff single for Sebolsky in the fourth, Mason Arnold worked a 1-2 count and drove a two-run shot over the wall in straightaway left for a 3-0 lead. Roos bookended the run with a single and a run scored after another Wildcat miscue on a Sangalang sac bunt attempt - Roos was home in time regardless, but the Wildcats' indecision sent the throw wide and allowed Sangalang to reach first and then advance to second. The Wildcats scratched two across in the seventh after an error and a groundout allowed the Linfield runners to reach and advance, but the Bruins' bullpen got out of the jam without further damage and capped the sweep with a swinging strikeout.