To finish off their trip to Myrtle Beach, the Clarks Summit Defenders played one last game against Cairn. Clarks Summit's bats came alive, and their 14-hit afternoon was rewarded with a 10-8 win over the Highlanders. Dametrius Williams went 2-5 with a pair of doubles, while Kegan Laman scored two on a 2-4 hitting day. Clarks Summit athletics photo

For the first time since March 12, 2020, the Penn State Altoona baseball team took the field on Thursday afternoon, facing Marywood University in a non-conference doubleheader at Pacers Field. The Lions (1-1) used a big offensive output in the first game to win 16-7, while Marywood (1-1) rallied for a walkoff 6-5 victory in the nightcap. "Overall, I thought we played pretty well," said Penn State Altoona head coach RJ Barnard. "After coming out and playing well in game one, it was frustrating to come out flat in game two. However, there were a lot of good things to take from today, and it felt good to be back on the field after a year layoff."

Augustana got strong pitching and timely hitting Thursday to take a home-opening doubleheader from Cornell by scores of 8-0 and 7-3. The wins lifted Coach Greg Wallace's club to 7-0 on the season. In game one, the seven, eight and nine hitters in Wallace's order— Griffen Pschigoda (2-for-4), Alec McGinnis (3-for-4) and Zachary Vrbancic (3-for-4)—combined to go 8-for-12 with five runs scored and five knocked in. Vrbancic scored twice and drove in three. Matt Hoban (2-0) surrendered just three hits and two walks while fanning six in seven innings. In the second of the days gamnes, Alec Michaelson (1-0) scattered seven hits and walked none. He struck out seven in six innings to earn the win. Alex Simon finished 3-for-5.

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Senior right hander Andrew Tri had a career-high 15 strikeouts to lead St. Thomas Baseball's 3-0 road one-hit shutout of Northwestern-St. Paul in Thursday's opener on a non-conference doubleheader in Roseville. The host Eagles (3-4) won the nine-inning second game, 3-0, on Bryce Crabb's complete-game two-hit shutout. St, Thomas (Minn.) athletics photo

Ripon defeated Wisconsin Lutheran 4-3 Thursday afternoon to earn their first victory of the 2021 season. Trailing by two runs entering the eighth inning, the Red Hawks scored three times in the final two frames combined to pick up the win. The score remained 3-1 until the eighth when Ripon (1-4) cut that deficit in half, as a sac bunt by Jakob Williams drove in Keegan Johnston, who led the inning off with a double to center. The Red Hawks were able to complete the comeback in the game's final inning, which saw Nick Latendresse lead off with a double to right. He would later score to tie the game on a sac bunt by Andrew DeMatteo. The go-ahead run would score one batter later when Anthony Zak crossed the plate on a passed ball with two outs. Jake Pankratz (1-0) earned his first career victory, pitching two hitless innings to end the game, while striking out three batters. Fellow reliever Nathan Hopkins also did not surrender a hit in his 1.2 innings of work. Caleb Green started and allowed two earned runs in 5.1 innings, while striking out two.

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William Paterson (1-0) exploded for a five-run second inning, then added six more in the fifth en route to a 15-1 season-opening victory against visiting New Jersey City (0-1). Steve Yelin finished 2-for-4 with two doubles, a pair of runs scored and three RBI, while Matt Ferrara was 3-for-4, scored once and drove in two runs. Junior Jason Palmeri (1-0) pitched 6.0 innings of six-hit, one-run ball. He struck out three batters and walked two. The game between NJAC members will not be counted in the league standings. Conference play begins April 3.

361 days since the last time any Alfred State athletic team took the field, the Pioneer baseball team traveled to Wells on Thursday to open up their 2021 season. Fueled by a five-run 5th inning the Pioneers earned the 9-2 victory over the Express. Justin LoTemple led the Pioneers with a 3 for 4, 3 RBI day while Jack Henby finished 2 for 3 with two runs scored. AJ Gartland allowed just four hits and two unearned runs in six solid innings of work. He walked two and struck out 10. Connor Hong allowed one hit and struck out one in two innings of relief and Ryan Demetrovic struck out three in the 9th. Wells was held just five hits on the day, four doubles.

Senior captain John Mesagno hit a leadoff home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Eastern Connecticut State University baseball team a come-from-behind walk-off victory over New England College for the second time in two games against the Pilgrims in a non-conference season-opener Thursday afternoon at the Eastern Baseball Stadium. Batting 1-2 in the order, senior Ryan Bagdasarian and Mesagno each had two hits and scored two runs, with senior Luke Broadhurst reaching three times with a single and two walks.

Ripon defeated Wisconsin Lutheran 4-3 Thursday afternoon to earn their first victory of the 2021 season. Trailing by two runs entering the eighth inning, the Red Hawks scored three times in the final two frames combined to pick up the win. Jake Pankratz (1-0) earned his first career victory, pitching two hitless innings to end the game, while striking out three batters. Fellow reliever Nathan Hopkins also did not surrender a hit in his 1.2 innings of work. Caleb Green started and allowed two earned runs in 5.1 innings, while striking out two.

If the first two games of the season are any indication of what Cobber fans are in for, then 2021 is going to be very exciting. Concordia used a 4-run seventh inning in Game 2 to erase a 4-1 deficit and earn a 3-2, 5-4 sweep over Wis.-Superior in the season-opening doubleheader. Both 1-run games were decided in the seventh inning and both had the Cobbers scoring multiple runs. The Cobbers scored two runs in the final frame of Game 1 to take a 3-0 lead and then held on to win 3-2. The second game featured the season's first walk-off hit as Matt Gruber's single brought home Thomas Horan to cap the 4-run comeback. Gruber also got the win in the finale. He pitched a scoreless seventh inning to give CC the opportunity for the walk-off.