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| David Bedell provided a walkoff hit in the opener and was one of three Pirates to homer in the nightcap as Whitworth swept visiting Lewis & Clark, 8-7 and 5-3, in a Northwest Conference baseball doubleheader on Thursday at Merkel Field. Whitworth athletics photo |
Clayton Dwyer came eight outs shy of a perfect game as the third-ranked Salisbury University wrapped up the regular season Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference title with a 6-0 win over the St. Mary's (Md.) Seahawks on Thursday afternoon at Sea Gull Baseball Stadium. The run support by the Sea Gull offense was more than enough for Clayton Dwyer, who retired the first 19 batters he faced, including a strikeout of Derrick Booker to give himself 6.1 perfect innings. The next batter was Jake Wood, who powered a double into the left-center gap for the Seahawks' first hit of the game. Clayton Dwyer (8-0) all but locked up C2C Pitcher of the Year with his most dominant performance yet, striking out a season high-tying 10 batters over eight innings of one-hit ball. Dwyer currently leads the C2C in all three Pitching Triple Crown categories with eight wins, 73 strikeouts and a 1.47 ERA. Brock Hilligoss needed just 14 pitches to retire all three batters he faced in the ninth, finishing off the Sea Gulls' second team shutout of the year.
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor broke open a pitcher's duel with a four-run sixth inning and held on from there in a 6-3 victory over Concordia Texas in the opening game of the American Southwest Conference Championship Tournament Thursday in Richardson. The game opened the ASC Championship Tournament. Andrew Acierni pitched a complete-game, six-hitter for the Cru to improve to 7-2 on the season. He struck out four and walked just one on the day. In middle games, Texas-Dallas and University of the Ozarks moved into the winners bracket of their respective Division. The ASC saved the best for last as a walk-off home run from Christopher Shay in the 11th inning gave East Texas Baptist a 2-1 win over Belhaven University. The game winning home run was Shay's first-ever collegiate home run.
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With the game tied at six in the bottom of the eighth, senior Bryan Bessler laced a single to right center that brought home Joe Maracic from second and give Johnson and Wales a 7-6 advantage ove Lasell. Pitcher Dane DellaValle closed the game out in the ninth to send number two seeded JWU to their second straight GNAC Championship game. They will play Anna Maria. Anna Maria advanced to the GNAC Championship finals for the first time in school history with a 6-2 victory over visiting Albertus Magnus College at the New England Baseball Complex in Northboro, Massachusetts.
Muhlenberg split a doubleheader at Ursinus, winning the first game, 3-1, before dropping the nightcap, 7-4. In the opener, junior Will Nomura tossed a complete-game four-hitter in just his second career start. The righty allowed just one unearned run, which scored without the benefit of a hit, walked none and struck out five. Nomura took a two-hitter into the seventh. The Bears (7-8, 7-7) got two hits in their final at-bat, but Nomura finished off the game with a popout and a groundout. The Mules (6-8, 5-7) came from behind to win, tying the game in the fifth on an RBI single by junior Ryan Hebert and winning it with two in the top of the seventh. Muhlenberg took two two-run leads in the nightcap, but Ursinus came back to win, the big blow being a three-run homer in the fifth.
Westminster (Pa.) split a Presidents' Athletic Conference doubleheader at home on Thursday. The Titans won game one, 10-2, and lost the nightcap, 6-2. Westminster (12-18, 8-15 PAC) was in complete control of game one with an early 7-0 lead after only two innings of play. Sophomore Frankie Manios shined again on the mound with a complete-game win (his second of the season) and improved to a team-best 4-1 on the season. Manios gave up two runs off nine hits, while strike out and walking two. Graduate student Tyler Barnot put the Titans up in game two with two-straight at-bats with an RBI-single and Westminster led 2-0 going into the bottom of the third. That, however, would be the last time the Titans would score as the Bearcats rattled off six unanswered runs for the rest of the game.
Senior JR DiSarcina and sophomore DJ Perron combined for six hits and five RBI to power the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to a 13-2 victory over Keene State College this afternoon in a Little East Conference baseball contest. The Corsairs registered their second highest hit total (14) of the campaign to sweep the three-game season series with the Owls and improve their overall record to 8-12 and 6-7 in the conference circuit. UMass Dartmouth utilized a balanced attack as eight batters recorded at least one hit, while every member of the starting nine reached base safely. DiSarcina and Perron were just a home run shy of hitting for the cycle this afternoon.
Max Mead gave Augustana six strong innings Thursday and the Viking bullpen closed things out as Coach Greg Wallace's club won for the 10th time in its last 11 outings, 3-2 over Carroll at Frame Park. Augustana improved to 28-6 on the season and 20-6 in the CCIW, while the host Pioneers dropped to 18-19 overall and 12-17 in the conference. The Vikings left two runners stranded in the first and the bases loaded in the top of the second against Carroll's Ben Ellifson and the Pioneers gave their starter a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second. Wallace's bunch finally got to Ellifson, knocking him out with three runs in the fifth. After Augustana left a runner stranded at third—its 14th of the game—in the top of the ninth, Hayes pitched around a two-out single in the bottom half to earn his seventh save of the year. Mead earned his second win in as many decisions. He allowed four hits, walked three and struck out four. Ellifson (4-3) suffered the loss.
Thomas College scored a season-high 25 runs to take down Northern Vermont University-Lyndon 25-3 on Thursday afternoon in a North Atlantic Conference game at H. Allen Ryan Field. Despite Lyndon scoring a run in each of the first three innings, Thomas held a 16-3 advantage heading in to the fourth after scoring five in the first, six in the second and five more in the third. The Terriers tacked on two runs in both the fifth and sixth, then put up four in the seventh. Thomas plated one more in the eighth to make it a 25-3 final.
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| SUNY Oneonta split their SUNYAC doubleheader against Nationally Ranked Oswego State Thursday afternoon at Red Dragon Baseball Field. The Lakers pounded out 18 hits to take the first game 19-5 before the Red Dragons captured the nightcap 5-2 on a brilliant pitching performance from senior southpaw Michael Losak (pictured). SUNY Oneonta athletics photo by Jamey Novick |
The visiting University of Southern Maine Huskies pounded out 35 hits and scored 40 runs over two game to sweep the Plymouth State University Panthers in Little East Conference baseball action Thursday afternoon at Parish Field. The Huskies took the opener 19-8 in eight innings as three players contributed four RBI In the nightcap, the Huskies hit four home runs, including a pair from freshman Cam Seymour, to take a 21-9 decision in eight innings. The first game counts in the LEC standings while the second game was a non-conference affair. Senior Andrew Hillier had a big day at the plate for the Huskies going 8 for 12 with six runs scored and three RBI. Rookie infielder Janek Luksza was 3 for 5 with eight RBI in the two games.
Loras College (20-12, 15-11 A-R-C) continued their busy week of action as they played host to the Norse from Luther College (25-9, 21-5 A-R-C) in a twin bill of baseball on Thursday evening. After falling in game one of the day, the Duhawks tallied their 20th win of the year with a commanding 7-2 victory in game two, handing the Norse their ninth loss of the season. In the opener, Luther's Tyler Boesel kept the Duhawks in check throwing a four-hit shutout. Boesel faced 25 batters, walked two and struck out five en route to his sixth win against one loss this season. Game two saw the Duhawks get off to a hot start from the jump and padded the Duhawks' lead at 5-0 at the midway point of the game. Matt Jeter recorded his fourth win of the season in a solid 7.0 inning performance on the mound. Jeter racked up six strikeouts, allowing only two runs on six hits before Owen Funke threw in the eighth inning, facing only three batters and allowing no runs on no hits with a walk. Ethan Peters dished the final inning of the game, striking out one of the three batters faced to solidify the victory for the Duhawks.
Senior Evan Faxon fired another masterpiece, The College of Wooster ran away from Wittenberg University in a non-conference battle between 20-win ballclubs in game one, 10-0, then the Tigers extracted revenge with a 3-2 10-inning win in Thursday afternoon's nightcap at Art Murray Field. Faxon (4-1), who tossed his second three-hit shutout of the season, retired the final 11 Wittenberg (21-10) batters he faced. For the game, the left-handed ace faced three batters over the minimum, didn't allow any extra-base hits, and only one Tiger reached scoring position. Faxon struck out eight on the day. Evan Faxon. Wooster's (21-9) offense, plus some costly Wittenberg errors, provided Faxon plenty of run support. In the nightcap, Wooster was primed for its third walk-off victory of the season, but the Scots couldn't come through with the final clutch hit as the Tigers walked the tightrope.
A three-run seventh gave Bethel University a 4-2 victory in the opener of a MIAC twin bill at Saint Mary's Thursday afternoon. The host Cardinals put up crooked numbers early giving them the night cap 9-4. The Royals did all their magic with two outs in a decisive seventh of game one. A single, walk and another single loaded the bases up for James Woelfel. A grounder to short looked as if it would allow the Cardinals to work out of a jam, but an errant throw allowed a pair of runs to cross the plate giving BU the lead. Kennan Hodgkin singled to right the next at bat giving the Royals an insurance run. Krupke slammed the door shut in the home half of the inning producing a fly out, strikeout and a groundout. Bethel wasn't as fortunate in the second game as the Cardinals jumped on the Bethel pitching staff early scoring three runs in each of their first two at bats. A RBI double from Ty Kohen before scoring on a wild pitch put another crooked number up on the board in the sixth, but SMU had done its damage.