FREDERICK, Md. - Hood College got complete games from pitchers Jake Franke (Lisbon, Md. / Glenelg) and Travis Schweizer (Chesapeake, Va. / Grassfield); and scored five runs in the first inning of both ends of a doubleheader sweep against Lancaster Bible.
Hood captured the opener 10-1 and completed the sweep with a 10-2 win in game two.
Franke pitched a five-hitter in the first game and gave up just one unearned run. Schweizer struck out nine and allowed just four hits in the second game.
Brooks Warrenfeltz (Middletown, Md. / Middletown) scored seven of Hood's 20 runs in the two games, including a school record four in the nightcap.
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Hood scored five runs in the first to provide Franke with more than enough offense in the 10-1 win.
The Chargers got on the board first with an RBI single by Erich Carroll in the first inning. The lead was gone by the time the Blazers' fifth batter stepped to the plate, however. Warrenfeltz walked with one out and back-to-back extra base hits by Dylan Johnson (Newville, Pa. / Big Spring) and Josh Gall (Odenton, Md. / Arundel) gave Hood a 2-1 lead. Nat Puryear (Frederick, Md. / Frederick) drove in a run with a ground out, then scored on John Cartagena's (Brookfield, Conn. / Immaculate) triple. Cartagena later scored on a base hit by Drake Friend (Gladwyne, Pa. / Harriton) f or a 5-1 lead.
Hood added two runs in the fifth with RBI singles from Gall and Puryear that scored Warrenfeltz and Johnson for a 7-1 lead. In the sixth, Cameron Esposito (Columbia, N.J. / North Warren Regional), Warrenfeltz and Gall all had RBI doubles to put the game out of reach.
Meanwhile, Franke cruised after the first inning. He allowed just one hit after the first inning until the sixth. The complete game was the first of his career, as the freshman struck out five and walked just one.
Gall continued his torrid hitting, going 3-for-4 with four runs batted in. He finished just a home run short of the cycle. Warrenfeltz was 2-for-3, scored three runs and doubled.
Nate Burns took the loss for the Chargers. He pitched 4.1 innings and gave up seven runs, five earned, on seven hits and a walk.
Carroll had two of Lancaster Bible's five hits.
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Like the first game, Hood fell behind in the top of the first, then wiped out the deficit with a five-run inning.
Schweizer gave up two runs in the first, then allowed just two more runners past first base over the next six innings. He struck out a career-high nine batters in the outing. In addition to his first career complete game, the righthander picked up his first career win.
After an error on the game's first play, back-to-back doubles by Caleb Mayer and Justin Taylor put Lancaster Bible on top 2-0. After a ground out, Schweizer struck out the next two batters to get out of the jam without further damage.
A double by Warrenfeltz, a single Johnson and a Gall walk loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the first. Puryear drew a bases loaded walk to score the first run and Cartagena followed with a bases clearing double for a 4-2 lead. Tyler Cook (Selinsgrove, Pa. / Selinsgrove) knocked in Cartagena later in the inning for a three-run lead.
Puryear had an RBI single in the second, Cook a run scoring double in the third and a wild pitch in the fourth stretched Hood's lead to 8-2.
The final two runs scored on a two-run double by Gall with two outs in the sixth.
Warrenfeltz went 2-for-2 in the game, walked twice and scored all four times he was on base for a new Blazer record. Cartagena and Johnson each had two hits. Cartagena had three RBIs, all on his bases loaded triple in the first. Gall, Puryear and Cook each drove in two.
Wade Zweizig was the losing pitcher, allowing eight runs on seven hits and five walks in four innings. Gabe Yoder pitched a scoreless fifth before Mark Sheriff allowed two runs in the sixth.
The Chargers five through nine hitters went 0-for-15 in the game.
The Blazers, winners of three straight and five of seven, wrap up the year with a 4 p.m. game against Penn St.-Abington on May 1.