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| Franklin College hosted the Mount St. Joseph Lions for two games in the final regular season home set at John P. McDowell Field. The Grizzlies (21-11) made a season-long five-game sweep of the Lions (12-24), taking the opener in seven innings 17-7 before rallying with nine runs late in game two to earn a 12-7 victory. Franklin athletics photo |
In the final regular season game of the year, Piedmont delivered when it mattered most winning 8-2 on the road at Brevard to advance to the USA South First Round. It was a six-run fourth inning that sparked the Lions as the bats came alive with seven hits including three extra base hits in the inning. Sam Carpenter earned the win pitching seven innings allowing three hits and two runs, while Justin Manus entered in relief pitching the final two innings without allowing a hit and struck out one.
An eighth-inning rally lifted fourth-seeded Albertus Magnus College to a 5-2 win over the fifth-seeded Cadets of Norwich University on Wednesday evening at Hamden High School. With tonight's victory, the Falcons advance to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Tournament Semifinals for the first time since 2009. Fifth-year seniors Matt Warren and Shawn McFeggan led the way for the Falcons, with Warren delivering a pair of crucial hits in the victory and McFeggan twirling seven spectacular innings of one-run ball on the hill. The Falcons take on the AMCATS of Anna Maria College in the conference semifinals on Thursday, May 6, at 3 PM at the New England Baseball Complex.
It was Walkoff Wednesday at Bucky Burgau Field. Cobber fans were treated to not one, but two walkoff wins as Concordia Morehead swept Carleton in a midweek doubleheader. Matt Gruber provided the first walkoff hit when he laced a single down the left-field line in the eighth inning of Game 1 that plated Mason Penske to give Concordia a 6-5 victory. It was senior Sean McGuire's turn to give Concordia a win in the nightcap. He drove a single to right field with the bases loaded that brought home Thomas Horan with the game-winning run in a 4-3 triumph. Not only did fans get to see something different in the two walkoff wins, they also got to see the same pitcher earn the victory in both games. Sophomore Luke Levasseur pitched a scoreless eighth inning in the opener to get his second win of the year and then he went 2.0 scoreless innings in the finale to up his total to three victories.
Completing the four-game season sweep of Carthage College, North Central College never trailed in the four games this season, rolling to a 8-2 win on Wednesday inside Zimmerman Stadium. The four-game sweep is the third of the season over a College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin opponent this season, as the Cardinals outscored the Firebirds, 27-2 over the four game series. After the Firebirds pulled to within two runs of the lead with a run in the top of the seventh, the Cardinals put up a four-spot in the bottom half to put the game out of reach. All four runs were scored with two outs in the inning, as the first two batters were retired before Luke Lehnen legged out an infield single and Dom Listi walked to start the rally. Five Cardinal pitchers combined to allow just one earned run on the afternoon, as Nolan Shannon allowed just one walk over his two innings and Patrick Schaefer closed the door in the ninth with a 1-2-3 inning. Jones earned the win to improve to 2-0 on the season, allowing just one hit and an unearned run over his 1 2/3 innings with three punch outs.
The Illinois College Blueboys picked up two wins, 9-8,and 1404, in their doubleheader against the Knox College Prairie Fire on Wednesday. In game one James Marcinkowski would put his team in a great position hitting a grand slam in the bottom of the seventh to put the Blueboys up big. Knox would attempt to make a comeback, but would come up short as the Blueboys earned the win in game one. The second game of the night would go in the Blueboys favor as well. After being tied 2-2 at the end of the third IC would start to pull away. Bailey Reed would hit his second homer of the day bringing in a run by Tyler Blum. The team would go on to score eight unanswered runs to make the score 10-2 at the end of the sixth inning. This would be enough to earn the Blueboys the win in game two after seven innings.
Wells College matched a season-high for runs in a game this season with 13 and fell just one hit shy of matching the most hits in a game this season after registering 16 on the evening in a come-from-behind 13-6 victory over visiting SUNY Poly on Wednesday, May 5 on Senior Day. The Express took an early 3-1 lead after three innings, but a five-run fourth inning gave the Wildcats the lead at 6-3. Wells scored 10 unanswered runs to take the game after a six-run sixth inning put the Express up for good at 9-6. The sixth produced seven of the team's 16 hits with three going for extra bases. Kevin Spaeth, Ian Crawford and Luke Eitner belted doubles in the sixth inning with Eitner scoring the go-ahead and winning run.
Jared Smith limited Blackburn to one run over 6.0 innings in game one and Jimmy Peterson broke out for four hits and four RBI in the nightcap, lifting Eureka to a St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader sweep of Blackburn, Wednesday afternoon in Carlinville, Ill. Wednesday's contests were the final two games on the 2021 regular-season schedule. The sweep was Eureka's first since taking two from Knox at Henry Sand Field on May 5, 2019, and its first league sweep since erasing MacMurray twice in Jacksonville, Ill. on May 1, 2021. Smith scattered five hits and five walks over 6.0 innings of work, as Eureka never trailed in earning its first true road win of the season. Braden Cross and Austin Davis collected two hits apiece to pace the Red Devils' offense that produced nine hits, all singles. The visitors rolled in the finale, overcoming an early 1-0 hole with a six-run second inning. Peterson went 4-for-5 with a triple and four RBI out of the leadoff slot, while Cross, Gregory Cluskey and Tate Stone added multi-hit performances.
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| Designated hitter Alex Page went a combined 5-for-10 with seven runs batted in and four runs scored to lead No. 6 Marietta College to a doubleheader sweep of Otterbein University Wednesday at Fishbaugh Field. The Pioneers won game one, 11-6, and then completed the four-game series sweep with an 11-3 victory in game two. Marietta improves to 24-2 in the Ohio Athletic Conference. With just eight games remaining in the regular season, the Etta Express has already secured a spot in the six-team OAC Tournament. Martietta athletics photo by Megan Miller |
Visiting Macalester College defeated St. Olaf College, 8-4, in game one before game two was halted due to rain with the Scots leading 4-0 after six innings on Wednesday afternoon at Mark Almli Field. Macalester (8-16, 8-16 MIAC) used a five-run third inning to take a 6-1 lead in the opener and held on for an 8-4 victory over St. Olaf (10-6, 3-5 MIAC). The Oles and Scots played six innings of game two in steady rain before the game had to be halted. Game two will be finished at a later date if circumstances allow. The Scots broke open a 1-1 game with five runs on six hits in the top of the third, starting the inning with four-straight singles and a grand slam from Matt Mukai.
Sophomore Kole Hinrichsen was masterful on the mound Wednesday night, tossing Cornell's first complete-game shutout in more than two years in a 6-0 victory over Midwest Conference baseball rival Grinnell at Ash Park. Hinrichsen delivered the pitching performance of the season, four days after a rough start at Illinois College in which he lasted only two innings. The right-hander struck out 10 Pioneers and faced only five batters over the minimum. Hinrichsen had one hit batsman and did not allow a walk during his 106-pitch outing. The Pioneers had only one runner reach third base against Hinrichsen. That happened after a one-out double from Nate L'esperance in the second inning. Hinrichsen retired 11 consecutive batters before giving up his next hit, an infield single in the sixth. Grinnell's final hit came with one out in the ninth. Cornell provided all the support Hinrichsen needed with a three-run third frame.
In their final regular-season trip across town, St. John Fisher College overcame an early deficit to defeat their non-conference rivals, the University of Rochester, 15-13 at Towers Field. Down two runs, the Cardinals' offense found its groove in the top of the seventh inning. Three of the first four Fisher batters found themselves on base for Beimel, who ripped a one-out, two-RBI single through the right side to even up the runs at eight apiece. A batter later, James Murphy cleared the bases as he sent a first-pitch double to the left field wall, just to be sent home by Ben Lavery on a single to center field. With a runner on first, leadoff hitter Noah Campanelli sent a long ball to left field for his third home run of the year, extending the Cardinals' lead to five. Luke Duffy then grabbed an RBI on a triple and Ward, Jr. drove him home in the top of the eighth inning, which capped off the Cardinals' runs at 15. The Yellowjackets battled back to score another five runs, but Fisher's defense held them off long enough to take the two-run win.