| Mississippi College had a lot
to celebrate with two comeback wins over No. 25
Huntingdon. Mississippi Colege athletics photo |
Mississippi College had to come from behind twice to pick up a doubleheader sweep of No. 25 Huntingdon at Frierson Field. In the first game, the Choctaws scored two unearned runs on back-to-back errors by the Hawks to pick up a 4-3 in seven innings. In the second game, Mississippi College needed six runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to force extra innings, and the game-winning run came around to score in the 11th inning on another error by Huntingdon.
Brandon Nemeti pitched four scoreless innings and Michael DeCarr drove in two runs as Cortland State defeated non-league foe SUNYIT, 7-3, in the Red Dragons' home opener. Nemeti, the Red Dragon starter, allowed three hits and one walk with five strikeouts over four innings. He was awarded the win since Cortland predetermined that it would throw at least three pitchers and Nemeti left the game with a 6-0 lead. Travis Laitar gave up two hits and struck out four in two scoreless innings of relief.
A pair of home runs lead Centenary (La.) to a 14-12 win over No. 3 Trinity (Texas) to extend its advantage in SCAC action. Marc Martinez ripped a two-run homer in the 11th inning followed by a solo dinger by Zachary Stephenson in the frame. The pair of home runs marked the first of the season for the duo. The two long balls answered a seven-run, ninth inning by TU that erased an 11-4 Gents’ lead to force the contest into extra innings.
| Jake Wylie
drove in nine runs in Linfield's NWC sweep of Puget
Sound. Linfield athletics photo |
Jake Wylie had the offensive day of the year, hitting two homers
and driving in nine total runs as Linfield proved it is worthy of
its No. 1 ranking with a doubleheader sweep over visiting Puget
Sound Friday afternoon at Roy Helser Field. Chris Haddeland threw
his first career shutout in game one, the fourth complete game by
the right-hander in his last five appearances. Tim Wilson went
4-for-10 with an RBI, four runs scored and four stolen bases. Nate
McClellan also had four hits and drove in a pair of runs on the
day. Kaulana Smith and Lucas Stone each had three hits for Puget
Sound.
First baseman Quinn Griffith collected a career-high four hits and
four RBIs, and Andrew Levy threw six innings, allowing seven hits,
one walk and one run as No. 4
Salisbury defeated Frostburg State, 22-1, at the SU Baseball
Field. Griffith, who leads the team with a .446 batting average,
went 4-for-6 with a double and three runs scored to lead
Salisbury's 19-hit attack in which 12 Sea Gulls tallied base hits.
Levy moved into a tie for 10th all-time at Salisbury with 18 career
victories.
Wheaton (Mass.) claimed a 5-4 triumph over Babson in
NEWMAC play at Govoni Field. Senior right-hander Frank Holbrook
pitched eight-and-one-thirds innings, allowed nine hits, four runs
(three earned), two walks and three strikeouts to push his record
to 4-0 overall. Junior closer Ryan Grant registered his second save
in as many days issuing one walk in two-thirds of an inning.
No. 11 Saint Joseph's (Maine) split a non-conference baseball
doubleheader with Roger Williams at Larry Mahaney Diamond. The
Monks suffered an extra-inning 1-0 loss in the opener and rebounded
to defeat the Hawks by a 3-0 margin in the nightcap. Roger
Williams, which entered the day having never defeated Saint
Joseph's in the 12-game history of the match-up, dealt St. Joe's a
difficult defeat in the first game, as the visitors plated an
unearned run in the top of the ninth to knock off the Monks. Nick
Whittaker was the story in the closing contest, as the righthander
tossed a complete-game one-hitter with four strikeouts to help the
Royal Blue salvage a split in the team's 2013 home-opening
twinbill.
Senior first baseman Isaac Tijerina knocked in four of the 12
Texas-Tyler runs, leading the Patriots to a 12-10 win over Ozarks.
Tijerina would finished 3-for-5 for four RBIs and two runs scored,
while T.J. Martin would finish with three hits of his own.
| Hunter Jones was 2-for-4 for
Transylvania in knocking off No. 16 Manchester. Transylvania athletics photo by Matthew Durr |
Transylvania freshman Hunter Jones poked a single through the
left side, driving home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth
inning as the Pioneers rallied to take a 3-2 HCAC win over No. 16
Manchester at Marquard Field. The Pioneers trailed the
conference leaders 2-1 heading into the bottom of the ninth, but
scored twice without making an out to snap the Spartans' four-game
winning streak.
Turning a nine-hit attack into 15 runs, Webster downed Eureka, at
GCS Ballpark. The Red Devils helped the Gorloks subsidized those
nine hits with 10 walks and four batters hit by pitch, and Webster
maximized their offensive attack in a 15-2 win. The game was the
first of a three-game set at GCS with Eureka.
Jacques Camalick doubled and scored the winning run in the bottom
of the ninth, enabling Augustana to come away with a split in its
CCIW-opening doubleheader with Elmhurst. The Bluejays won the
opener 4-3 before the Vikings rebounded to take the nightcap
6-5.
After tying it up with a run in the top of the ninth, the No. 22
Birmingham-Southern Panthers scored twice in the top of the 10th to
down Centre, 7-5, at Gary Wright Field in Danville, Ky. The
Panthers move to 18-8 overall and 9-1 in the conference, leading
the SAA standings.