Hampden-Sydney was out hit two-to-one but pulled out a 2-1 win in their season opener. Methodist took game two 4-2 as Head Coach Tom Austin won his 1200th game of his career. Photo Gallary d3photography.com photo by Dave Hilbert

East Baptist came into Tornado Field and took two games from the No. 21 Concordia-Texas team. The Tigers won 7-2 and 5-3 over the ASC pre-season favorite. No 16 Birmingham-Southern also saw No. 22 Adrian ambushed the Panthers with a 9-1 win in the opener of two games. BSC earned a split of the doubleheader with a 8-3 win in the nightcap.

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The Texas Lutheran Bulldogs gave new Head Coach Rick Heines his first win (in his first game) as head baseball coach of the Bulldogs. TLU rolled to a 10-1 victory over the Schreiner Mountaineers, Saturday night at TLU's Katt-Isbel Field. The Bulldogs are 1-0 with the non-conference win. Schreiner is 0-1. Matthew Hickey tossed six innings of three-hit baseball, and Tyler Cauley hit a two-run home run and had two hits. Hickey struck out five and worked around three walks. The Bulldogs led 4-1 after four innings and added a pair of runs in the sixth and four runs in the eighth. Austin Colon drove in a pair, scored twice and had two hits, and Cullen Motsinger drove in three with two hits. Brendan Beard picked up his first career save with three scoreless innings of relief. He struck out four.

The NC Wesleyan College baseball team used a tenth inning solo home run from 2B Davie Morgan to come all the way back and stun the Marlins of VA Wesleyan 5-4 in 10 innings on Saturday. NC Wesleyan athletrics photo

Puget Sound won its first game of the 2021 season, 20-3, at home against Whitworth Saturday afternoon. Freshman Nathan Blocher set the tone early by belting a second-inning grand slam, and starting pitcher Davis Miller earned the victory after allowing just two earned runs in five innings. The Pirates cut the Loggers' lead to 5-3 in the top of the sixth inning, but Blocher and Kyle Strash both delivered RBI doubles in the bottom of the stanza. Dylan Joyce hit two home runs Saturday, the first of which was a solo shot to leadoff the seventh inning. His second long ball was a three-run job in the eighth inning. Six Loggers compiled multiple hits, led by three from Blocher, Joyce, and Jake Briscoe. Five Loggers finished with multiple RBIs. Blocher knocked in six runs, and Joyce drove in four.

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LeTourneau swept its American Southwest Conference-opening series from Mary Hardin-Baylor after winning, 5-2, Saturday. LETU (4-1, 3-0 ASC) scored twice in each of the fourth and fifth innings, and added another in the eighth, and relied on its strong pitching for a third straight game to record its fourth straight victory. LeTourneau starter Kolbey Sharpe earned the win, going 5 1/3 innings, allowing five hits, two runs and a walk, while striking out four. Cade Smitherman gave up two hits, no walks and no runs while recording a strikeout in one inning of relief. Kolton Eberlan picked up the save, working the final 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief. He struck out four, and gave up just two hits and no walks. It was the second straight game Smitherman and Eberlan tossed scoreless relief. LETU's pitching staff allowed just three runs in the three-game series.

Behind a strong college debut from pitcher Gage Mack, the Linfield Wildcats split the doubleheader against the Pacific Lutheran Lutes on Saturday afternoon at Roy Helser Field. The Lutes took the first game, 10-2 and the Wildcats took the second end of the doubleheader, 3-2 for their first win of 2021. Both games on Saturday were seven innings. Linfield is now 1-2 on the season and PLU is 2-1.

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St. Norbert opened its 2021 season with a doubleheader sweep of Crown by scores of 9-1 and 13-11 in a pair of non-conference games at U.S. Bank Stadium. Three St. Norbert pitchers combined to hold Crown to two hits in the opener. Tommy Maher struck out seven in 4 1/3 innings pitched to get the win, allowing one run on two hits. Noah Beilfuss had 2/3 of an inning of scoreless relief, while Sam Fonder finished up with three strikeouts in two innings. St. Norbert rallied in a wild nightcap, with Crown scoring five runs in the top of the first before the Green Knights answered with six runs in their half of the frame. Jacob Rajkovich and Myles Cruz had two-run singles to key the response. Crown tied the game with a run in the top of the third, but the Green Knights scored three times in the bottom of the inning on Cruz's bases-clearing triple. Crown scored single runs in the fourth and fifth to get to within 9-8, but St. Norbert answered with two runs in the fifth on a Lucas Reynolds single and Maastricht sacrifice fly. The Green Knights got two valuable insurance runs in the sixth inning when McCarthy was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and Adam Cootway scored on a passed ball. Crown would score three times in the seventh and had the potential tying run at the plate when the game ended.

Simpson swept its opening-day doubleheader against Illinois College on Saturday, winning game one 7-3 and game two 8-4. The Storm (2-0) scored five unanswered runs and allowed just four baserunners in the final four innings of the game one win. In the nightcap, Simpson used a six-run second inning to build an early lead that proved to be the difference. Five Storm pitchers combined to strike out 19 batters on the day.

George Fox opened its 2021 season with a non-conference series against Pacific and swept the Boxers to start the weekend with a 6-5 game one victory and a 4-3 win in game two. George Fox athletics photo

William Peace swept a doubleheader matchup with Lynchburg. The Pacers shutout the Hornets in game one 7-0, with pitcher Sam Peddycord throwing a complete game with 10 strikeouts and just 2 hits. In game two, the Pacers would find themselves down 3-2 in the bottom of the 9th before Nathan Holt would hit a walkoff single with the bases loaded to give WPU a 4-3 win.

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Junior left-handed pitcher Matthew Scavotto and freshman right-handed pitcher Trenten Anderson turned in complete-game efforts to help propel Brevard (2-2) to its first two victories of the 2021 campaign, as the Tornados swept Averett (0-3) in a doubleheader on Saturday at Owen-Fulton Field in Danville, Virginia. Brevard struck for a pair of runs in the top of the fifth frame before shutting out Averett in the last three innings to take game one, 2-1. The Tornados then got behind its freshman starter in the second matchup, as Anderson's two-hit shutout in just his second collegiate start, paired with a fourth-inning run, lifted BC over the Cougars, 1-0.

For the third straight season, Webster graduate student Matt Mulhearn took to the mound in a season opener here Saturday afternoon as for a third straight season Mulhearn was dominant as he scattered just two hits and struck out a career high 14 batters en route to tossing eight shutout innings to lead the preseason No. 3 ranked to a 5-0 win over Wartburg at GCS Credit Union Ballpark. Over the past three season openers, Mulhearn has been dominant on the mound for the Gorloks as he is 2-0 in openers and lowered his ERA to 0.39 in season opening starts. In his three career season openers, the 2019 Third-Team ABCA/Rawlings All-American has tossed 23 innings and has allowed 10 hits, one run, which came in the 2019 season opener against Transylvania, while walking two two and striking out 22, including the career high 14 strikeouts in Saturday's opener.

Trinity's (Texas) fourth-ranked team swept a Saturday doubleheader from Southwestern to clinch the weekend series. The Tigers scored early and often in the opening game of the twinbill, inducing the run-rule with a 16-6 lead after seven innings. After a tight game for eight innings, Trinity pulled away from Southwestern with a four-run ninth that secured a 9-3 victory and a doubleheader sweep.

Junior left-handed pitcher Matthew Scavotto and freshman right-handed pitcher Trenten Anderson turned in complete-game efforts to help propel the Brevard College baseball team (2-2) to its first two victories of the 2021 campaign, as the Tornados swept Averett University (0-3) in a doubleheader on Saturday at Owen-Fulton Field in Danville, Virginia. Brevard struck for a pair of runs in the top of the fifth frame before shutting out Averett in the last three innings to take game one, 2-1. The Tornados then got behind its freshman starter in the second matchup, as Anderson's two-hit shutout in just his second collegiate start, paired with a fourth-inning run, lifted BC over the Cougars, 1-0.