| Randolph-Macon has opened the season with seven striaght wins. Randolph-Macon athletics photo |
Sophomore Stuart Brown drove in three in the opener and freshman Rick Spiers fanned 12 in the nightcap as Randolph-Macon swept an ODAC doubleheader from Guilford at the USA Baseball Complex on Monday. The Yellow Jackets won the opener 8-5 while edging the Quakers 3-2 in game two.
Wartburg defeated No. 9 Concordia-Chicago 10-7. The Cougars and the Knights traded leads until DJ Utley scored on a fielder's choice in the seventh give Wartburg the lead for good.
Bridgewater ran its record to 3-0 by sweeping Monday's doubleheader from Messiah, winning the opener 1-0 and the nightcap 8-5 at JMU's Veteran's Memorial Stadium. In the first game, Bridgewater's Ryan Leake and Steven Woerner combined on a five-hit shutout to lead the Eagles to the victory. In the second, the Eagles scored in five of eight innings with three in the seventh to erase a 5-5 tie.
Neumann picked up a 3-1 win against St. Vincent in central Florida. Neumann scored all three of its runs in the eighth inning. Eric Bergman and Alex DiGenova led off with back-to-back-walks. Bergman came around to score on a sacrifice fly and DiGenova on a double by Kye Williams. Williams scored the final run on an error.
Juniors Steven Wallace and Evan Fraser combined to allow just one unearned run leading DeSales past Mary Hardin-Baylor, 5-1, at Red Murff Field. Wallace earned the win pitching 6.2 strong innings allowing six hits and striking out eight. Fraser entered in the seventh with the bases loaded and got out of the jam allowing just the one unearned run, stranded two runners in the eighth, and retired the side in order in the ninth to earn the save.
Rose-Hulman rallied from a 5-3 deficit to earn a 9-5, 11-inning victory over Trine in the team's annual Spring Trip to Florida. The Engineers scored single runs in the seventh and ninth innings to send the game into extras and then erupted for four runs for the win.
| Senior Bobby Guerra hit a go-ahead two-run home run to lift the Valiants over Grove City in game one. Manhattanville athletics photo |
Manhattanville split a doubleheader with Grove City, beating the Wolverines in game one 8-6 while dropping the second game by a final score of 4-3. Manhattanville tallied four home run against Grove City, including three in the first game.
Elizabethtown rallied late in both halves of a doubleheader, sweeping Immaculata by scores of 8-4 and 9-8. In game one, the heart of the Blue Jays' order was just that, as the 3-4-5 combo of Tyler Weary, Luke Gatti and Ryan Schamp went 6-for-12 with two hits each. In game two, Weary, Gatti, and Schamp contributed four of the Bluejays' 14 hits.
John Carroll evened their record to 2-2 with a sweep of Bluffton. The Blue Streak won game one, 11-9, in a seven-inning contest and a nine-inning game, 7-3. In the opener, all but one of the starters on each side got a hit with John Carroll outlasting the Beavers. In the nightcap Andrew Doring pitched seven strong innings to lead his JCU to the 7-3 win.