Record season

Tyler Heitmann (8-0) on the year with an eight-hit, zero-walk effort in six innings in a 15-1 win over Marian.
Bethel (Minn.) athletics photo

Bethel swept Marian on Tuesday by the final scores of 5-0 and 15-1. The Royals pair of wins over the Sabres, a team that has already won the NACC regular season championship, marked the fourth road sweep of the season and the sixth shutout of the year.

Freshman Nick Williams pitched eight strong innings, allowing one run on seven hits, as Union defeated Castelton State 4-1. Eric Egan and Jake Vesling both collected three hits a piece and Jake Fishman drove in two runs and earned his first career save for the Dutchmen.   

Senior Dan Belliveau reached an individual milestone and No. 20-ranked Ohio Northern picked up a big win for its program with a 3-1 victory over No. 7-ranked Wooster at Wander Field. Belliveau tripled and scored in the sixth inning to put ONU ahead 3-1 and tie him for the school's all-time career record. He now has 15 career triples equalling the mark set by Brian Ramsey in 1988.

Hamilton set three school records in beating host Utica 6-1 in non-league competition. The Continentals have won four of their last five games. Hamilton hit a school-record four triples – including a program-record three in the ninth inning, and raised their season total to 11, setting another record. 

Junior Tyler Branneky continues his successful season with a broken season record in Westminister's split with Principia College. The Westminster (Mo.) Blue Jays won game one, 8-1. Branneky finished with three RBIs to put his season count to 43, breaking the seven year-old record. Principia went on to hold the Blue Jays from scoring in game two, snapping their 11-game winning streak with the 8-0 loss.

For the 14th time this season, Frostburg State hit multiple home runs in a game and today's pair of long balls led the Bobcats to a 5-0 win over Washington & Jefferson. With the win, the Bobcats move to 33-3 on the season, surpassing the second-most wins in a season by FSU and need just two more to tie the all-time record.

Rookie Matt Krupa was 4-for-4 while senior Charles Thielmann tossed a complete game as Kean edged Montclair State, 3-2 in the NJAC Tournament opener. With the win the second-seeded Cougars will face off against #3 Ramapo, 7-0 winners over #4 Rowan.  With the loss the fifth-seeded Red Hawks will face #1 Rutgers-Camden, who were upset in the opening round by sixth-seeded The College of New Jersey, 9-4.

Sophomore Daniel Avery scattered three hits and struck out a career-high 11 over six innings of work to lead Mass-Maritime to a 6-2 non-league victory over Coast Guard at Commodore Hendy Field.

Tom Rydzewski's 162 hits in the new high water mark for hits in a career at Farmingdale State.
Farmingdale State athletics photo

Senior Tom Rydzewski led off the bottom of the first inning with a single to right center to break the Farmingdale State school record for career hits. Rydzewski now has 162 hits over his four years at FSC, passing Kevin Curtis' (2008-2011) previous mark of 161. The Farmingdale State took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first as Rydzewski scored on a wild pitch and the Rams went on to take a 4-0 win over Baruch.

Penn State Behrend and Pitt-Bradford battled for 15 innings before having the game called for darkness with the score knotted up at seven. Each team had scoring opportunities in extra innings, but neither could land a knock-out blow, resulting in a draw. Nathan Junk led the Lions offense going 4-for-7 with four RBI's including a clutch two-out two-RBI double in the bottom of the eighth inning that tied the game.

The Thiel Tomcats outhit La Roche 11-8, but they fell 6-4 in a non-conference game at Tomcat Park. La Roche scored five of their six runs in the first three innings of the game.

Behind a complete game from Aaron Kalish, RPI avenged an early-season loss to Williams with a 13-4 win at the Ephs' Bobby Coombs Field. The Engineers jumped out to a five-run lead in the first and held at least a three-run lead for the remainder of the game.  Kalish went the distance to get the win for RPI. He gave up four runs on seven hits while striking out two. The Ephs' Marcus Colella took the loss, giving up five runs on five hits in a single inning of work.

Sophomore Matt Hardy drove in two runs and scored twice in Nichols's 8-2 win over Fitchburg State at Riccards Field. Sophomore Benjamin Harrow and freshman Nick Osma each drove in a pair of runs as the Bison won their fourth in a row for the first time since 2012.

Mary Hardin-Baylor fell behind early and could not come all the way back in a 17-3 loss to Trinity (Texas) in San Antonio. Trinity put four runs on the board in the bottom of the first inning and added three more in the bottom of the second for a 7-0 lead. With three more runs in the third and a 10-1 lead, the rout was on for the Tigers.

Junior Mike Davis went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and first-year Will Twiss tossed a complete game as visiting Salem State defeated Babson, 6-2, in non-conference baseball action at Govoni Field. Salem State is on a six game win streak.

Junior George Hatamiya scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Haverford an 11-10 victory over Neumann at Kannerstein Field. Sophomore Thomas Vollaro started the scoring with his first career home run in the bottom of the first inning, the first of a record high three hits.