UW-Whitewater keeps winning, Suffolk nabs bragging rights

The FDU-Florham ran its winning streak to four today with a 5-3 non-conference victory over SUNY Maritime at Vincent J. and Lenda F. Naimoli Ballpark.
FDU-Florham athletics photo by Sherri Sacoliti

No. 12 ranked UW-Whitewater extended its winning streak to six games Tuesday with a 5-3 triumph against Grinnell at Studer's Blue Wahoos Challenge at Blue Wahoos Stadium in Pensacola, Fla. The Warhawks (7-2 overall) took the lead with a three-run seventh inning and retired the Pioneers' final six hitters to hold the advantage. Kade Lancour improved to 3-0 with an eight-inning, 10-strikeout performance without issuing a walk. Sam Vomhof struck out the side in the ninth inning for his first save of the year. Vomhof also starred at the plate, totaling two hits and two runs batted in.

Suffolk picked up Boston Commons bragging rights as it rocked six triples, the most by any NCAA Division III teams this season, en route to a 16-3 offensive onslaught of cross city rival Emerson Tuesday night at East Boston Memorial Park. EJ Birch registered the win. He did not allow an earned run over his 6.0 innings of action on six hits and one walk with a pair of Ks. Jake Washock secured the save behind 3.0 frames of scoreless relief with one hit and one strikeout to his credit. Shane Lake was perfect at the plate with a 3-for-3 performance. All three of his hits were for extra bases including two triples and one double. He brought in three runs and scored twice himself. Harry Painter went 4-for-5 with two triples and one double, for four RBI and three runs scored. The six triples hit by Suffolk marks a new program record, upstaging the previous mark of 5, that was set on April 21, 2012 in a 16-1 win over Rivier.

Eli Atiya threw a two-hitter through seven innings
and Anthony Schooley drove in three runs as No. 9
Rowan defeated York (Pa.), 6-1, in the Profs' home
baseball opener.
Rowan athletics photo by Nick Feldman

University of Lynchburg junior Avery Neaves had the walk-off hit in Tuesday's comeback win over Randolph-Macon. Neaves blasted a double with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth as his team trailed 7-5 to complete the seven-run comeback. Lynchburg went to bat in the bottom of the eighth trailing 7-0 and with only two hits. With two runs in the eighth, the Hornets set up the comeback bid. In the bottom of the ninth as Gavin Collins led off with a single. Josh Gjormand singled right after, and Collins scored on an error by R-MC's right fielder. The Hornets chipped away at the lead as Holden Fiedler knocked an RBI single, and Logan Webster earned an RBI with a hit-by-pitch. Avery Neaves cleared the bases with a three-run double and secured the comeback victory. He ended the day 2-5 with a season-high five RBI, and Hurowtiz earned his second win.

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Senior Aaron Simmons drove in all three runs and three pitchers combined as UW-Stevens Point (7-1) shut out Washington & Jefferson (6-6) by a 3-0 final on Tuesday. Simmons only had one hit, but it was a two-run home run, as he extended his hitting streak to 16. Matt Baumann and Payton Nelson added two hits each. Baumann and Logan Matson each scored a run for the Pointers. On the mound, Caleb Krommenakker tossed 6.1 scoreless frames with two strikeouts to earn the win. JD Schultz pitched 1.2 in relief with a strikeout and Sidney Ferry struck out one in a scoreless ninth for his second save of the year. With his save, Ferry moved into a tie for sixth in program history with 11 career saves.

Covenant snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-3 victory over Sewanee on a blustery Tuesday afternoon atop Lookout Mountain. It was the fourth straight win for Covenant (8-10) over Sewanee (2-18) in the all-time series. The contest remained scoreless until the fifth inning, largely in part to Covenant's starting pitcher Austin Clark. In the top of the fifth, a couple of wild pitches and back-to-back hits for the Tigers allowed them to bring across two runs and grab a 2-0 lead. However, in their half of the inning, the Scots would quickly tie it back up thanks to two hits and two Sewanee errors. An RBI triple from Kenny Mills helped tie it up at 3-3 before he was brought home on Zeke Gilbert's go-ahead RBI single that gave Covenant its first lead of the day at 4-3. Sewanee looked to tie the game in the top of the eighth, but Scots nailed the would-be tying run at the plate. Joseph Ridenour tracked down Wade Sansone's double to right field and hit cut-off man Trevor Grapenthin, who threw a strike to home plate where Josh Harvey applied the tag on the Sewanee runner to keep the Scots in the lead. Mills threw the final two innings in relief and struck out two as he picked up his first save of the season.

Returning to Eastern Baseball Stadium for their first home game since Game 3 of the Little East Conference Tournament Championship last year, Eastern Connecticut State University got the bats going early against Nichols College en route to a 13-3 victory in their home opener. Using seven unanswered runs in the second and third innings which were defined by a pair of two-RBI hits from senior second baseman Noah Plantamuro's (Bristol) second-inning single and senior first baseman Dean Slavin's (Tappan, NY) third-inning double, the Warriors (9-1) took a 7-2 lead and never looked back against the Bisons (4-7).

On Tuesday night, just three days after taking down a UT-Dallas team now ranked No. 5 in the nation, the Crusaders added a second consecutive Top 25 win, defeating No. 16 Trinity, 12-9, for the first time since 2017. “Our offense has been rolling now for probably two weeks,” UMHB head coach Mike Stawski said postgame, “if you look at game three of the Ozarks series [until now] minus game one against UTD. I was excited about the way we swung it. We didn’t put up eight or nine run innings, but we didn’t let off the gas.” Swing it they did. UMHB tallied 17 hits, hitting .405 as a team, and scored 12 runs for the second straight game. As is the blueprint in a number of Tuesday night duels, in which coaching staffs enter with the goal to use a minimal number of pitchers in order to save arms for the weekend series, the contest was high-scoring from the first inning on.

William Paterson (11-6) never trailed during a 9-8 victory at Manhattanville (5-6). Steve Yelin finished 2-for-5 with two doubles and a run scored, while Colin Lombardo drove in two runs. Dan Carter, Elliot Hayward and graduate student first baseman Carson Weis each contributed a pair of hits. Senior Matt Lawler worked 6.0 innings, allowing four runs (one earned), six hits and one walk (1-0). Junior Dan Castaneda pitched 2.0 innings of four-hit ball, allowing two runs (one earned) while posting one strikeout. Carter allowed two runs, a walk and a hit while striking out two hitters in the ninth for his fourth save of the year.

Augustana (12-3) continued their hot streak this afternoon with a 6-3 non-conference victory over the Dutchmen of Union College. The Vikings came back from an early one-run deficit to shut down the Union offense for their sixth-consecutive win and 12th overall. Kyle Campbell led the Augie offense with three hits in as many at bats. The Viking left-fielder also scored one run and drove in two others. On the mound, Bryce Luckey came on in the early stages after a hot Union start. Luckey settled into the game and tossed 4.2 innings in relief to earn the win. Luckey also posted 11 strikeouts with just one walk and one earned run.

Hope College packed a punch early and powered to a 15-6 victory against Elmhurst College on Tuesday in Auburndale, Florida. The Flying Dutchmen erupted for nine runs over a three-inning stretch early in the non-league game. Starting pitcher Mason Belmore (2-0) scattered six hits and three runs over five innings. The freshman from Battle Creek, Michigan struck out five and walked two.

Kalamazoo College split a doubleheader with Gustavus
Adolphus on Tuesday. The Hornets lost the opener 4-2
before winning the second game 7-4. With the win in
game two, Coach Ott became the winningest coach in
program history with 173 wins.
Kalamazoo athletics photo

Junior Noah Ferruggia put together the best outing of his collegiate career, to lead Lewis & Clark College baseball to a doubleheader conference split with visiting Linfield University. The southpaw threw 5.2 innings of scoreless relief and the Pioneers bats went off behind him in an 11-5 game two victory. The two teams resumed their halted game from February 26 with the Pioneers leading 8-4 in the bottom of the fourth inning. The lead wouldn't last long, as Linfield scored four unanswered runs to tie the game, scratched across another un in the eight to tie it again and added two in the tenth to hand the Pioneers a deflating 11-9 loss. In game two, Brett Pierson and Ferruggia limited the visitors to just two hits over 7+ innings and the Pioneers scored 11 runs in that span to earn a blowout NWC win. Both of Ferruggia's collegiate victories have come against Linfield. Last season, he started and went six innings and allowed seven hits and one earned run in a 6-1 win at Linfield. With the win, the Pioneers now have the most wins (13-11) since the 2008 team finished 16-24.

Christopher Newport continued it's winning ways, picking up it's fifth straight and 12th win in the last 13 games with a 6-3 victory on the road Tuesday afternoon, taking down North Carolina Wesleyan for the second time this season. The Captains improved to 15-5 overall while the Bishops are now 10-9 after sophomore starter Jay Cassady hurled another quality start for CNU. Cassady struck out 10 for the fourth time this season as he improved to 5-0 in six starts this year. He walked a pair and allowed five hits but kept the Battling Bishops off the board for 7.0 strong innings. He added a 2-for-3 showing at the plate to help lead the way for CNU on both sides of the field.

Muhlenberg built an early lead and held on for an 8-7 win against Neumann in its home opener. With a 10-3 record, the Mules have matched the fewest games needed to reach double digits in victories since 1928. That team 94 years ago won its first 10 games and finished 11-0. Since then, the Mules have gotten to 10 wins in 13 games six times (1954, 1969, 2005, 2012, 2013 and 2022), but never faster. Senior Evan Spano pitched five solid innings to earn his first win of the season, senior Will Nomura worked the last 1 2/3 for his third save of the season, and senior Thomas Rodgers made two big plays, one offensive and one defensive, late in the game.

With a 12-7 victory on Tuesday afternoon, WPI snapped Roger Williams' 10-game season-opening winning streak and handed the Hawks their first loss of the season, while picking up the team's first victory in the Northeast in 2022. The Engineers (4-5) piled on 14 hits on the day led by a 3-for-3 effort from leadoff hitter Andrew Brooks who added another home run to his total, his team and conference-leading fifth of the season. Brooks finished the day with three runs scored, driving in another three and forcing two walks, reaching base in all five of his at bats.

SUNY Brockport (10-2) defeated the Rochester YellowJackets (10-4) at Towers Field Tuesday night by a score of 12-6. Justin Pangburn drove in three runs on his second home run of the season while Brian Tietjen (1), James Houlahan(1) and Nicholas Pastore(2) all recorded doubles for the Golden Eagles. Scoring 12, each of the Golden Eagles nine starting fielders were able to record a run in the game. Matt McGowan got his second start of the season on the bump throwing 57 pitches in 3.1 innings before being substituted by Nick Ianiello in the fourth with a six run lead behind him.

A ten-run third inning helped power Centenary to a 13-7 win over John Jay College on Tuesday afternoon at Our Diamond of Dreams. The Cyclones snapped a two-game losing streak as every member of the starting line-up had at least one hit in the game. The Bloodhounds took an early lead in this one as Ethan Simaan had a triple to center that plated two runs in the top of the first. Centenary exploded for 10 runs in the bottom of the third to put the game out of reach. The Cyclones sent 13 men to the plate in that inning and recorded eight hits. Aidan Hixenbaugh earned the win in relief for the Cyclones as he went two plus innings and gave up three runs on two hits. Fernando Sladky took the loss for John Jay as he gave up eight runs on eight hits in 2.1 innings of action.

Freshman Christian Chambers had a game-tying RBI single, then scored the game-winning run—both in the seventh inning—to lead Hampden-Sydney College to a 4-3 non-conference home win past Mary Baldwin University on Tuesday afternoon on Yank Bernier Field at the Ty Cobb Ballpark – Wurdeman Stadium. Freshman Matthew Arnold had the game-winning RBI with a sacrifice fly, and junior captain Jay Beavers along with junior Ethan Currin each added an RBI, as well, while junior Davis Ferguson gained the pitching win and freshman Dylan Robbins earned the save for the host Tigers (11-5) against the visiting Fighting Squirrels (4-14). H-SC scored four runs on eight hits with two errors. The Tigers have now won five-straight games.

Susquehanna University celebrated their 2022 home opener in style Tuesday afternoon, getting a walk-off, pinch-hit RBI single from Thomas Romanelli to pick up a hard-fought 7-6 victory over Penn State Harrisburg in action from Bollinger Field. The Lions would battle back with a run in the eighth inning, and then tied the game in the ninth on a wild pitch. In the bottom of the ninth, Susquehanna had its first two hitters retired but Tony Rossi worked a walk and was pinch run for by CJ Latham. Latham would rattle the Harrisburg pitcher into a balk to get into scoring position, and Thomas Borum reached on a hit by pitch. Head coach Denny Bowers would go to his bench, sending Romanelli up to bat with the game on the line. The sophomore delivered, smoking a rocket off the first baseman and the throw to the plate to get Latham wasn't in time to hand the River Hawks the win.

Lebanon Valley College scored 20 runs for the second time this year to win their fourth straight game with a 20-3 road win at Cairn University on Tuesday afternoon at the Stillman Complex in Langhorne. The Dutchmen (9-5) scored plenty of runs early plating runs in the first three innings but didn't really break the game open until a six-run fifth. LVC scored a run in the first, three in the second, and four in the fourth before their big inning. They added five more in the eighth and one in the ninth before Cairn (7-5) managed to score all three of their runs in the ninth.

Allegheny slugged past one of the top teams in Division III baseball with an 11-5 victory against No. 11 Baldwin Wallace on Tuesday in a nonconference matchup. The Gators stunned the Yellow Jackets with three runs in the opening frame. Ben Kosbie drove in the first run and was followed by a Brady Nolin two-run single to knock out Baldwin Wallace's starter. Allegheny continued to mash the ball and put together eight runs via three homers as Tyson Bryant-Dawson, Brett Heckert and Ryan Dougherty went yard. As for Allegheny's pitching, Bobby Kusinsky bridged the gap to the bullpen with 5.2 innings to earn his fourth win.

Senior Shane Manieri belted a three-run triple in the first inning as part of a four RBI day and senior Nate Materalexis made the most of the early-run production with six solid innings as Gettysburg College (6-8) pulled out an 11-8 win over Lancaster Bible College (7-9) at Kirchhoff Field on Tuesday. Masteralexis earned his first win of the season after finishing with 6.1 innings, six hits, two runs, and seven strikeouts. Ken Spadaccini earned his first save of the season. Manieri finished 1-for-2 with two runs, two walks, and four RBI. Matt Muir went 2-for-3 with a run and sophomore Tristan Neels scored three runs.

Scranton (10-3-1) held off a late inning rally from Ithaca in a 6-4 win over the Ithaca Bombers (10-3) in non-conference action on Tuesday afternoon at Volpe Field in Scranton. Scranton held a 5-1 lead in the middle innings before Ithaca rallied to cut the lead to 5-4, but senior Tyler Kirsten plated an insurance run with a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the eighth to stretch the lead to 6-4. This marked the first meeting between the two programs since Apr. 6, 1999. Sophomore right-hander Thomas Plunkett got the win for the Royals as he allowed just the one unearned run on three hits to go along with two walks and a strikeout over five innings of work.