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| The Mighty Macs took down Rutgers-Camden 5-1 in their first victory of the season on Saturday. Stephen DiBatista hurled 6.2 perfect innings, pitching 7.1 innings of one-run, eight-strikeout baseball for the Macs. Immaculata athletics photo |
Saint Vincent swept Finlandia by scores of 9-2 and 13-1 in their third day at the RussMatt Collegiate Baseball Invitational. In the opener, Saint Vincent (3-1) scored all nine of its runs in the second inning, while Justin Wright cruised to the complete game victory on the mound. In the nightcap, the Bearcat offense racked 12 hits while hurler Aaron Stephan took a no-hitter into the sixth inning. While the Bearcat offense was ablaze in game two, the story of the game was the right arm of Stephan, who was making just his second career start. The junior recorded seven of his first nine outs via strikeout and didn't allow his first base runner until hitting a batter with one out in the bottom of the fifth, before the no-hitter was finally broken up by a bunt single in the sixth inning. In 5 1/3 innings of work, Stephan allowed one run on two hits, with 10 strikeouts. He faced just two batters over the minimum. Andrew Root recorded the final two outs of the sixth on a groundball double play, before Tyler Chrise closed out the win with a perfect seventh inning of relief, striking out one.
Saint Mary's (Minn.) scored more runs in the second inning the Rose-Hulman plated the entire nine-inning contest. Saint Mary's, fueled by an eight-run second inning, avenged an 8-5 loss to the Fightin' Engineers earlier in the week — and snapped a two-game losing streak in the process — as the Cardinals rolled to a lopsided, 16-7 victory Thursday afternoon at Lake Myrtle Park. Saint Mary's parlayed six hits, three walks, and a Rose-Hulman error into eight runs in the top of the second inning to get the Cardinals off and running. Tanner Bauman and Jake Arndt each delivered two-run singles in SMU's eight-run second, while Tyler O'Brien, Brandon Merfeld, and Daniel Marxen also delivered run-scoring hits.
The 17th-ranked Trinity (Texas) team opened up a four-game series against sixth-ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a walkoff 10-8 win on Thursday night. The Tigers rallied several times in the game, erasing a three-run deficit in the seventh, and scoring three times in the ninth to finish off the game. Trinity improved to 4-3 on the season, while UW-Whitewater opened its 2022 season with a loss. Tyler Pettit ended the game with a two-run walkoff homer, which followed the game-tying homer from Jack Vonderhaar to lead off the ninth inning. Brian Schaub hit a pair home runs in the game, tying the game with a two-run shot in the fourth. His three-run bomb in the seventh also tied the game 7-7 at the time.
Sophomore Daniel Elliott (2-0) continued to lead Christopher Newport on both sides of the ball as he picked up the win and chipped in a 1-for-3 effort with an RBI at the dish as the Captains raced past Neumann University (2-2) at The Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, S.C., 9-1. Elliott tossed 2.1 scoreless innings of relief and sophomore Scott Crosson blasted a grand slam to highlight an eight run outburst late in the game on Thursday afternoon. The Captains won their fifth straight and eighth game in the last nine to improve to 8-4 on the season with the win. The pitching staff pitched another gem with three arms combining to allow just one unearned run on five hits with 13 strikeouts on the day.
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| The Hanover Panthers scored early and often in rout of Purchase College on Thursday afternoon, 19-6. Hanover athletics photo |
Grove City College owns a 4-2 record so far on its spring trip to the RussMatt Invitational in central Florida. After a 2-0 victory Wednesday over Rose-Hulman, the Wolverines secured a 10-4 win Thursday against Rhode Island College. On Thursday, Grove City scored eight runs over the final four innings to down Rhode Island College. Grove City carried a 2-0 lead into the sixth inning and added to that lead when Williams walked and later scored on a single from freshman third baseman Shane Cato. Mally Kilbane led Grove City's 12-hit attack by going 3 for 6 with a double. He also earned the pitching win by throwing six innings. Kilbane (1-1) struck out five and allowed two runs. Evan Umland recorded his second save in as many days by pitching the final three innings. He allowed one earned run and two hits while fanning three.
Elizabethtown earned a split with Maritime, falling in game one, 7-1, before taking game two, 4-3, in non-conference action Thursday afternoon. Maritime held the Etown bats to six hits, eanring its third straight win to the start the 2021 season, 7-1. Etown found the winning run in the top of the seventh and then shutdown a Maritime rally in the bottom half of the inning to earn 4-3 win to complete the doubleheader. Sophomore Bryce Keller led the Blue Jays, going 3-3 with two RBI and a run scored. Senior Robbie Bertucio finished 2-4 with an RBI and a run scored, while senior Joey Thomas and Tyler McGonigle each registered a double.
Hood College took control by way of a four-run fourth inning to ultimately put the game out of reach for a 7-4 win over Eastern Mennonite University. Keegan Brennan went 2-for-4 in the game, with two RBIs, two runs, two stolen bases and a walk. AJ Haines finished the afternoon 2-for-4 with a double, a run and a stolen base. Jack Martin got the start and went six full innings, allowing four earned runs on eight hits and three walks. He struck out four and received the win.
Wartburg avenged its season opening loss to the Milwaukee School of Engineering on Thursday, Mar. 3 with an 11-4 victory over the Raiders. Will Armstrong started on the mound for Wartburg and earned the win with six innings pitched. The sophomore allowed six hits and recorded three strikeouts in the start. Cael Boehmer pitched the last three innings for the Knights and recorded three strikeouts and allowed one hit in relief. Ben
DeKruyf led the offense going two for five with three RBI that came from a double and homerun.
Moravian split a doubleheader with Concordia-Moorhead (Minn.) with the Greyhounds coming from behind to win the opener 12-9 and the Cobbers taking the second contest, 5-4. The Cobbers plated three runs in the top of the third inning to move ahead 5-2 but Moravian answered with eight runs to take a 10-5 lead and all the runs they needed. In Game two, the Cobbers plated three runs in the bottom of the sixth for a 5-3 advantage but the Hounds' could only manage a single run came in the seventh.