The Hamilton College baseball team snapped Wesleyan's 12-game winning streak with a 5-3 victory in game two of Saturday's NESCAC West Division doubleheader at Royce Field. The visiting Cardinals won the opener 7-1.

Four Continental pitchers combined to hold the Cardinals – who had averaged seven runs per game during their winning streak – to three runs over nine innings. Starter Joe Wagner '14 allowed one run over four innings and Tommy Moriarty '14, the second of three Hamilton relievers, shut Wesleyan out over three innings. Wagner and Moriarty were two of the four Continental seniors honored before the doubleheader.

Hamilton erased Wesleyan's 2-0 lead with three unearned runs in the fifth inning. After Chris Collins '17 reached on an infield error, his brother Kenny Collins '17 beat out a bunt and Brett Mele '17 singled home the first Continental run. Following a double steal, Kenny Collins and Mele both scored on a sacrifice fly by Andrew Haser '17 when the throw home went out of play.

The Continentals added insurance runs in the sixth and ninth. Joe Jensen '15 singled to lead off the sixth and stole second (his fifth steal of the weekend series) before coming home on a run-scoring single by Ryan Wolfsberg '17. Jensen singled in Hamilton's fifth run, bringing in Haser with a base hit through the left side.

Wesleyan rallied for a run in the ninth and brought the go-ahead run to the plate. Andrew Yin '15 singled with one out and Donnie Cimino '15 and Sam Goodwin-Boyd '15 hit consecutive two-out singles to cut Hamilton's lead to 5-3 and put the tying run on base. Hamilton's Ryan Crawford '15 – who earned his second save of the season – got the game-ending out on a fly ball to center field by Wesleyan's leading hitter.

Jensen, Wolfsberg and Haser both finished with two hits. Cole Dreyfuss '16 picked up his first win of the season, pitching the top of the fifth.

The Cardinals scored single runs in the fourth and fifth to take a 2-0 lead. Cimino singled, stole second and scored Wesleyan's first run on an RBI single by Robby Harbison '17 and an inning later Ellis Schaefer '17 brought home Eric Jones '16 – who doubled with one out and took third on a wild pitch – with an infield grounder.

Wesleyan stranded 11 runners, leaving two runners on base in three of their last four times at bat.

In game one Jeff Blout '14 pitched a complete-game five-hitter, allowing just five base runners over the first six innings before the Continentals loaded the bases in the seventh in their final at bat. Kenny Collins beat out an infield single with one out and Mele followed with a single to right. One out later Brian Ferrell '16 reached on an infield single but Blout ended the threat by striking out the final batter to improve to 5-0 on the season.

The Cardinals needed just four batters to take a 3-0 lead with Goodwin-Boyd powering his first home run over the left field wall with Yin and Cimino on base. Goodwin-Boyd added an RBI single in Wesleyan's two-run fifth with Cimino, who scored three runs in the game, coming home on an infield groundout by Guy Davidson '16.

Cimino, Goodwin-Boyd and Harbison each had two of Wesleyan's 10 hits. Harbison singled in a run in the third and Eric Jones brought in a run with a squeeze bunt in the fourth.

The Continentals scored their run in the bottom of the first. Jensen, who raised his season average to .414 with four hits in the doubleheader, reached on an infield chopper then stole third and scored on a ground ball off the bat of Chris Collins.

Hamilton is scheduled to play a non-league game against SUNY Canton Tuesday at Watertown's Duffy Fairgrounds. The Cardinals, who clinched a spot in next month's NESCAC Championship Tournament with their win in the opener, host Coast Guard Tuesday afternoon.