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| No. 23-ranked Birmingham-Southern split its doubleheader with SAA foe Hendrix on Saturday. The Panthers won the first game 3-1 in 11 innings before falling 4-1 to the Warriors in the second game. Birmingham-Southern athletics photo |
Starting pitching paved the way for Chapman's series sweep of Redlands. The No. 14 Panthers (15-5, 6-3 SCIAC) saw their two starters chew up 15 total innings on the mound, allowing just one earned run to complete the series sweep with wins of 4-1 and 7-2. Tyler Peck picked up his second win with four strikeouts and a pair of walks. Sophomore Cody Turner tossed the final two innings, stranding four more Bulldog runners on base, to earn his second save. Senior Mason Collins settled in on the mound and turned in another solid performance. He struck out 10 batters over eight innings of work while allowing just four hits and a walk.
Despite taking an early lead over Concordia-Moorhead, the No 4. Concordia-Chicago Cougars struggled to keep a consistent offense rolling before a late RBI double helped secure a 4-3 victory over the Cobbers. An eighth inning RBI single from Bryan VanDuser plated the go-ahead runs and allowed CUC to earn the 4-3 win. VanDuser went 2-4 against Concordia College and collected two RBIs. The Cougars needed another comeback to outlast Wheaton (Ill.) 10-5 in their late game.
The Texas Lutheran Bulldogs swept a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader from top-ranked Trinity with 12-4 and 9-6 wins. The eighth-ranked Bulldogs (15-6, 2-1) bounced back from Friday night's 8-3 loss to Trinity and took two from the Tigers on their home field. Trinity dropped to 17-5 overall and to 4-2 in the SCA. In the late game, lefty reliever Cameron Jones struck out the final Tiger batter with the tying run at the plate in the 10th inning of the 9-6 victory for the sweep and a series win.
For the second straight game, No. 19 Piedmont reached double figures against Berea winning 15-5 over the Mountaineers. A big inning in the second opened up the gates and Piedmont poured it on for the second game in a row to take the series. Jonathen Burkett and Brady Ballstadt both had three hit performances. allstadt now holds the career record in doubles, runs, RBI and hits breaking the RBI and hits record over the weekend. Piedmont has been walked 28 times in two games v. Berea.
Cortland scored 10 runs in the top of the fifth inning, capped by a Wyatt Myers grand slam, to break open a close game and the No. 25 Red Dragons defeated Plattsburgh, 20-6, to complete a three-game series sweep of the Cardinals at Piedmont College. Cortland (10-8-1, 3-0 SUNYAC) finished with 18 hits in the game, with 13 different players registering at least one. Matt Krafft came off the bench to finish 2-for-2 with a walk, triple, RBI and three runs scored and Marcos Perivolaris went 2-for-2 with a walk, RBI and two runs. Joe Tardif went 2-for-3 with a triple and two RBI, Mike O'Connor was 2-for-3 with an RBI and Colin BeVard ended 2-for-4 with two doubles, an RBI and two runs.
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| LaGrange swept a doubleheader from Covenant on Saturday at Cleaveland Field at Williamson Stadium. The No. 24 Panthers (18-6, 11-3) completed a sweep of the USA South series with the Scots by winning game one 6-2 and game two 5-4. LC now has a season-high five-game winning streak. LaGrange athletis photo |
Methodist downed 13th-ranked and host Huntingdon College, 8-3, Saturday afternoon in USA South Athletic Conference play. The victory comes on the heel of the 17th-ranked Monarchs tough defeat to the Hawks Friday evening, with a third game in the series to played Sunday to break the draw. The offensive production for Methodist came largely from the outfield. Outfielders Clay Richardson, Rob Wilkerson, and Elliot Manley combined for seven hits, four runs scored, and three RBIs.
The No. 20 Salisbury Sea Gulls defeated Capital Athletic Conference opponent Frostburg State in game one of a three-game weekend series, 4-1. Clayton Dwyer (4-1) was once again electric on the mound, recording his third complete game in his past four starts. Dwyer allowed only five hits and one unearned run to the Bobcats, while striking out 10 total batters in the process. The maroon and gold will finish off the three-game series with a doubleheader against the Bobcats tomorrow.
And that's the sweep! The Cal Lutheran bats could not be stopped, Saturday afternoon, as the Kingsmen completed the sweep of the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, taking both games of the double header 12-4 and 9-7, respectively. Overall, the Kingsmen added three more home runs and nine doubles to the season total. Finding their groove all day long, senior Weston Clark notched three doubles and one long ball in the two contests, while sophomore Daniel Parr hit two doubles and homer of his own. The weekend marks the third straight series victory in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference for the Kingsmen, bringing them to 15-4 overall and 7-2 in conference play.
No. 7-ranked Swarthmore comfortably defeated Stockton in back-to-back seven-inning games by scores of 13-0 and 19-4. The Garnet have won 10 of their last 11 as they've climbed to an 11-3 record this season. Junior pitcher Jack Corkery did not allow Swarthmore's hitting to overshadow his complete-game four-hit shutout. Corkery has won both of his starts this season, including one against No. 1-ranked Wooster. He was a first-team All-Centennial Conference closer in 2018, but this year he already has 14 strikeouts, just two earned runs and eight hits allowed in 13 innings as a starter. The Garnet one-upped themselves at the plate in Game 2 by scoring 19 runs, which is shockingly just their third-best scoring effort this season. Swarthmore plated 27 against Scranton on March 9 and 22 against SUNY Canton on March 12.
Adrian made its 2019 home debut when the Bulldogs swept Alma, 8-5 and 10-2, to begin their 10-time defending MIAA title defense. Sophomore Thomas Miller was 4-for-8 with two runs scored and two runs batted in on the day. Senior Korey Mazur went 3-for-7 with three RBI in the two games. Junior Gunner Rainey was 4-for-8 on the day, accounting for three runs scored and three RBI.
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| Junior outfielder Shawn Nickles scored four and drove in six as the fifth-ranked Randolph-Macon swept an ODAC doubleheader at Bridgewater on Saturday. Randolph-Macon photo by Frank Straus |
Trailing 2-1 in the third inning, No. 9 Johns Hopkins went on to score 15 unanswered runs as the Blue Jays cruised to a 16-2 victory over St. Lawrence to wrap up their spring break trip in Fort Myers, FL. Eleven different Blue Jays recorded a hit in the game as Mike Eberle led the team with three hits in the game as the senior went 3-5 with an RBI and two runs scored. Hopkins put up new season highs in runs (16) hits (15) and stolen bases (5). McCracken went seven innings allowing four hits and two runs (none earned) while striking out seven. Glass went 1.1 innings with one walk and a strikeout.
- No. 11 Concordia-Texas no hit by Louisana College
- Wooster records two wins as the wrap up their spring trip
No. 6 Rowan lost to Division I opponent Bradley, 3-0 in its final game of the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational. Right-hander Danny Serreino dominated on the mound for Rowan, tossing seven innings, fanning 12 batters and allowing three hits. Right-hander Zach Listro suffered the loss (0-2) throwing 0.2 innings and giving up one run and a hit. Second baseman Alex Kokos and third baseman Bauer Fichter each added one hit.
Sophomore Josh Husby (4-1) turned in the finest pitching performance of his career and senior Ryan Grubbs belted five hits in six at-bats to lead second-ranked Christopher Newport to a dominating 18-1 win at St. Mary's (Md) (5-7-1, 0-4). The Captains improved to 15-2 overall and 4-0 in Capital Athletic Conference play after the win and will return to action for a twin bill against the Seahawks on Sunday. CNU has now won six straight games after opening the year on a nine-game roll. The Captains have scored in double figures in four of those six wins, including Saturday's 19-hit showing on the road in conference play. While the offense pumped out 19 hits, including six for extra bases, it was a sterling pitching performance from Josh Husby that was not to be overshadowed. Husby tossed an efficient eight innings of three-hit ball, allowing just one unearned run along the way. The sophomore right-hander struck out six and issued only one free pass on a hit-by-pitch, facing just four batters over the minimum through eight innings of work.