Ithaca College played its first-ever games at Bard College on Wednesday afternoon and came away with a Liberty League doubleheader sweep, 11-8 and 6-3. With the wins, IC takes three-of-four from Bard on the season and improves to 14-7-1 overall and 9-2-1 in the Liberty League. Ithaca athletics photo

Mitchell College slugged its way to a pair of wins at New England College on Wednesday afternoon, winning by final scores of 5-1 and 15-11 in a clash of the top teams in the New England Collegiate Conference. The Mariners hit a total of five home runs in the doubleheader, including two by Anthony Diaz in the nightcap. Jakari Pellegrini and Hunter Yaworski also went yard in the contest, and it was a grand slam by Dougie DelaCruz that was the difference in the opener. With the wins, Mitchell leapfrogged into first place in the NECC standings with only one weekend remaining in the regular season. The Mariners, who improved to 10-2 in conference play, sit a game ahead of the Pilgrims (9-3) after taking three of the four games in the regular season series.

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Senior Joe Curci delivered a walk-off, bases clearing double in the bottom of the seventh inning, to lift Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to a come-from-behind, 8-7, victory over Skidmore College, on Wednesday afternoon at Robison Field at Karl Steffen Ballpark. The Engineers, who dropped Game 2 of the doubleheader, 5-4, move to 1-5 (1-5 Liberty League), while the Thoroughbreds are now 2-5 (1-3 Liberty League). Curci capped a five-run rally with his game-winning hit. RPI entered the frame, trailing 7-4, but saw senior Peter Close single with one away to start the rally. After a walk, classmate Jake Defayette ripped a single through the right side of the infield to load the bases. Back-to-back walks followed, scoring two runs, before Curci launched his double to the gap in right center to win the game.

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Saint John's extended its win streak to 10 games with a doubleheader sweep of Macalester, 8-7 and 5-4, on Wednesday, April 28, at Becker Park. There were six lead changes in game one, with the sixth serving as a walk-off single by sophomore second baseman Owen Dauk in the bottom of the seventh, and the Johnnies (22-8, 12-7 MIAC) led throughout the nightcap for the narrow 5-4 victory. Junior outfielder Soren Roe went for 5-for-7 with two doubles, three runs scored and two outfield assists in his first games against his former team. Roe was an All-MIAC honoree for the Scots (6-14, 6-14 MIAC) as a freshman in 2019.

Eastern Connecticut State University scored 13 runs in its final four at-bats, tied its season high with 21 hits and eight pitchers set a program record with 20 strikeouts in a 14-7 non-conference win over Albertus Magnus College Wednesday afternoon at Rochford Field. Ranked No. 1 in New England and No. 21 nationally, Eastern (22-4) has won eight of ten while Albertus (3-12) dropped its eighth straight and is winless against Eastern in 13 games in this series. Senior leftfielder John Mesagno, senior third baseman Luke Broadhurst and junior catcher Matt Malcom all homered and freshman rightfielder and leadoff hitter Jason Claiborn had his first four-hit game, extending his on-base streak to 23 and hitting streak to 12. For the second time this year, Eastern equaled the program record by using eight pitchers, which combined to strike out a program-record 20 batters.

No. 8 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater maintained its first-place standing in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Wednesday afternoon with consecutive victories over UW-Stout in a doubleheader at Prucha Field at James B. Miller Stadium. The Warhawks (23-4 overall, 15-3 WIAC), who are tied for first place in the conference standings with UW-Stevens Point, posted a 10-1 triumph in the opener before defeating the Blue Devils 7-0 in the nightcap. In Game 1, UW-Whitewater mashed 15 hits and put up six runs with two outs in the bottom of the second inning to break the game open. In Game 2, four UW-W pitchers combined for a shutout, stranding nine Blue Devil runners in the contest.

St. John Fisher College grinded out an extra inning win over Elmira College on Wednesday night as the Cardinals upended the Soaring Eagles, 17-12, in a 12-inning Empire 8 game played at Dunn Field. After building a 9-5 lead through the first four and a half innings of play, the Cardinals faltered as Elmira plated seven runs in the bottom of the fifth to vault ahead, 12-9. Needing a run to keep its hopes alive, Fisher took advantage of an Elmira error as Adam Zebrowski reached and moved all the way to third as a result of the miscue. With the tying run just 90 feet away, Luke Duffy stepped in and lifted a sacrifice fly to deep left field to keep Fisher in the game at 12-12. After stranding a pair of runners in the home half of the 11th, Elmira was unable to get off the field quickly in the top of the 12th as the Cardinals batted around and came away with five runs on four hits including a two-run single from Duffy to take a 17-12 edge into the bottom of the frame.

Cornell charged back in the thick of the Midwest Conference South Division race with a 5-1, 5-4 sweep over previous co-leader Monmouth Wednesday night at Ash Park. The Rams (9-15 overall) climbed to 6-4 in the division, percentage points behind Illinois College (9-4) and Grinnell (5-3) with still three weeks to go in the regular season. Cornell finished 3-3 in its six-game series with Monmouth (11-8 overall, 9-6 MWC). Cornell's pitching staff was stellar against the Fighting Scots, not allowing an earned run over the entire 18 innings. Monmouth managed only 10 total hits in the doubleheader. Sophomores Brett Potter (1-1) and Preston Wright combined on a five-hitter in the opening game. Freshman Evan Parshall (2-0) wound up the Game 2 winner, striking out the side in the top of the ninth that led to a dramatic comeback in Cornell's final at-bat.

Junior right-hander Kyle Brelling pitch eight and a third strong innings and Western Connecticut State University held on in the ninth inning defeat visiting University of Massachusetts Boston, 5-4, in the nightcap of a Little East Conference doubleheader at Westside Field on Wednesday night. The Colonials, now 2-10 overall and 2-9 in the league, dropped the opener, 14-2 in seven innings to the Beacons. Brelling. 1-2, allowed three runs on seven hits, struck out 10 and walked two, but was forced from the bump with one out and runners on first and second in the final inning. The Beacons cruised to a 14-2 mercy rule victory in game one.

St. Norbert got a big day from senior outfielder Lucas Reynolds as the Green Knights went on to sweep Lawrence 4-1 and 10-5 in a Midwest Conference North Division doubleheader at Van Alstine Field at Mel Nicks Sports Complex. St. Nortbert athletics photo by Corey Wilson

Fourth-ranked Salisbury University used a five-run sixth inning to power its way to a 7-5 victory over the Christopher Newport Captains on Wednesday afternoon in a Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) game at Captains Park. Scott Cameron finished a home run shy of the cycle, going 3-for-5 with a double, triple, run scored and two RBIs to lead the Sea Gulls at the plate. Luke Weddell went 3-for-5 with a run and two RBIs from the two-hole for SU. Stephen Rice finished 2-for-5 with a run and RBI, while Sky Rahill had two hits and scored a run.

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Baseball's a game that's known for a plethora of quirky and unique oddities, and the 25th-ranked College of Wooster certainly had one during its Wednesday afternoon split with Kenyon College at McCloskey Field in Gambier, Ohio. Kenyon snapped Wooster's nine-game winning streak with a 5-2 win before the Scots bounced back with a 9-2 victory in the nightcap. Wooster (18-6, 9-3 North Coast Athletic Conference East Division) already clinched the top seed within the division prior to Wednesday's clash with Kenyon (4-6, 4-6 NCAC East Division), thanks to Allegheny College's (12-7, 6-4 NCAC East Division) sweep over the Lords back on April 22. Yet with the win in Wednesday's nightcap, Wooster's guaranteed to finish in sole possession of the East Division's highest winning percentage. Wooster will host the NCAC Championship Series against the top seed from the West Division at Art Murray Field. The best-of-three series is tentatively set for May 21-22, but that could change based on which team qualifies from the West Division, as NCAC policies pertaining to commencement could potentially come into play. As to Wednesday's oddity? Well, that came in the fourth inning when Wooster scored six runs without logging a single hit, and there weren't any Kenyon fielding errors contributing to that total either.

No. 15 Shenandoah University celebrated its senior day Wednesday with a 6-5 non-league victory over Wilson College. The two teams mirrored each other for the initial seven innings of the contest as both scored one run in the first and four in the third. With two outs and runners at the corners after Haden Madagan doubled down the left field line and Henry Delavergne singled to shortstop, the duo executed a perfect double steal with Madagan sliding under the tag to put the Hornets on top, 6-5. Kyle Lisa (1-0) who came on in the eighth, then retired the Phoenix (17-4) in order in the ninth to close out the contest.