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| Penn State Berks put up a crooked number in the first inning and Ben Berkel tossed 7.0 innings of shutout ball in the Nittany Lions 11-0 victory over the University of Pitt.-Greensburg on Monday afternoon. Penn State-Berks athletics photo |
The trio of Alex Amalfi, Dillon Ryan, and Ethan Errera combined to set a new program record for strikeouts in a game with 21 to lead the Beacons to a 10-1 win over Framingham State in the Beacons 2022 season debut Monday afternoon at Monan Park. Over their nine innings of worker the hurlers scattered just five Rams hits and walked just four batters. The lone Framingham State run was unearned and came in the top of the seventh. Amalfi and Ryan picked-up right where they left off in 2021 totaling nine strikeouts a-piece. Errera closed out the game with an impressive fast ball to post the final three K's. As a team the Beacons combined for eight hits, and were walked 10 times.
Rochester scored three runs in the first inning and used that momentum to post a 6-1 victory over Kean on Monday afternoon at Pelicans Stadium. Rochester (4-1) remains hot to start the season, picking up its fourth win in five games over the season's opening three days. The Yellowjackets take on Cairn University later on Monday to complete a stretch of three straight doubleheader days. Kean drops to 11-2 on the season. The Yellowjackets were led by four players who recorded multiple hits in the contest. Colby Cruser went 2-for-3 with a double, home run, 2 RBI and 2 runs. John Moses finished 3-for-4 with two RBI, while Aaron Whitley went 3-for-5 with a run and stolen base. Josh Leadem added a 2-for-4 performance at the plate.
Northwestern (Minn.) has wasted no time playing quality teams early on in the 2022 season. After splitting a doubleheader with a 2021 NCAA National Tournament Team on Saturday, the Eagles played another National Tournament opponent on Monday morning as they squared off with Illinois College. The Eagles won the game in dramatic fashion. 9-7. In the bottom of the eighth inning, tied 7-7, Mason Skrede came up to the plate with the bases loaded and two outs. Skrede would rip a ball to third base. The ball would bounce off the diving third basemen's glove, and the throw would go into right field. The Eagles would take a 9-7 lead into the 9th inning. Aaron Severson would come in to pitch the ninth inning. He didn't give up a hit, and the Eagles would win the contest 9-7.
Mount Union fell behind seven runs before rallying for a 13-7 win over St. Joseph (Maine) Monday at Lake Myrtle Park. St. Joseph (1-3) scored seven runs in the bottom of the first with the big hits coming on a Jonathan Dube grand slam home run and a solo home run by Peter O'Brien. The Purple Raiders came all the way back in the fifth inning with six runs on five hits. Mount Union belted out 17 hits as Walker Marlowe went 4-for-6 in the leadoff spot and scored three runs. Duliba had three hits. Chuck Hawley came on in relief for Mount Union in the first inning, gave up two runs, but ended up striking out 11 over the next 8.2 innings and got his first win of the season.
Buena Vista rallied with four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, including a walk-off hit by Caden Mathewson, to edge No. 10 Aurora 7-6 on Monday afternoon at the Kino Sports Complex. The comeback bid came up a run short in the ninth inning against Emerson College later in the day, as BVU dropped a 10-9 contest for its first loss of the year. It was a pitcher's duel with the Spartans. Aurora managed to plate one in the ninth to extend its advantage to 6-3 before the Beavers loaded the bases in their half of the ninth. The Spartans forced out a runner at home for the first out before Joel Garcia drew a bases loaded walk to make it 6-4. Sophomore Caden Mathewson then lifted a ball into the gap in left centerfield that dropped and cleared the bases for a walk-off triple and a 7-6 victory. In the nightcap, Emerson used a five-run second inning as the Lions built an early 5-1 lead. The Lions then added a run in the third before Zach Beekmann blasted his first home run of the year in the bottom half to make it 6-2. The Beavers pushed across a pair of unearned runs in the fourth to fight back within 6-4. Emerson, responded with four unanswered runs over the course of the sixth and seventh innings to build its largest lead at 10-4 but Loras had no comeback glory this time.
The No. 2 ranked Marietta Pioneers swept a doubleheader from Swarthmore College Monday afternoon. Marietta won the first game 13-1 in seven innings and took game two, 11-4. The Pioneers improve to 5-1 overall, while Swarthmore falls to 3-7 on the season. Marietta sent 11 hitters to the plate in the bottom of the first inning in game one scoring six runs. That would be more than enough support for starting pitcher Trent Valentine (2-0). Valentine went the distance on the mound giving up one run on two hits. He walked one and struck out eight. Turner Hill and Zach Boyd had the hot bats in game two. Hill went 4-for-5 with two doubles and two RBI. Boyd was a perfect 4-for-4 with a double, triple and four RBI. Trent Castle delivered a two-run home run finishing 2-for-3 with three runs scored.
Marymount opened play in the RussMatt invitational with a twinbill against WPI and came out with two more wins, 16-4 and 9-6, to bring its record to a spotless 10-0. The Saints came out of the gates with an aggressive approach at the plate against the Engineers which paid off in spades to start the game. MU put up for runs in the third inning and hung eight runs on WPI in the third inning to put the game out of reach early. The Saints limited the Engineers to four runs the rest of they way before they tacked on four more runs in the seventh inning to make it 16-4. The second game of the twinbill was closer but the Saints outscored the Engineers with nine runs on nine hits compared to the Engineers six runs, which led to a 9-6 final score. Senior Alex Lemery was a standout for the Saints. Lemery was 6-for-9 at the plate with a home run, a triple and a pair of doubles.
Eastern Nazarene clipped Clark 5-4 Monday afternoon at the Ripken Experience. The Lions climb to 5-2 on the season with the victory while the Cougars slide to 0-1 overall with the result. Steven Pesce notched two hits, two runs scored, one RBI and a stolen base. Anderson Jimenez and Hernhy Lara both landed two base knocks and drove in one RBI. Briley Seiter threw 6.1 innings in his third start of the spring and registered five strikeouts. Cortez worked 1.2 innings of relief and picked up his first win on the mound. Jon Tessier hurled one scoreless inning of finished with three strikeouts to earn his second save of the season.
In two closely contested and well-fought games on Monday morning, King's College swept Martin Luther College, 10-5 in game one and 7-5 in game two, to earn their first two wins of the 2022 season. King's improves to 2-1 overall while Martin Luther falls to 0-8. In game one, Andrew Steidle led the Monarchs, going 3-for-5 with two runs and an RBI. Brandon Loner also had a multi-hit game for King's with two and scoring twice, while Zach Day drove in a team-high two runs. Martin Luther was led by Mason Cox and Elijah Henning with two hits each. In game two, Martin Luther regained the lead in the top of the sixth, but the Monarchs had an answer as three runs scored on three hits as King's took a 7-5 advantage. The defense finished the job as they forced a three-and-out from the Knights to earn the 7-5 win in game two and the doubleheader sweep over Martin Luther on Sunday morning in Florida.
Vassar split Monday afternoon's doubleheader with the Wentworth Institute of Technology (3-1) to pick up its first win of the season. The Brewers (1-2) fell 2-4 in the first game and then won 6-3 in the second. Vassar started hot in the first game, with sophomore Reid Lapekas picking up his first-career home run by hitting to right-center to give Vassar a 1-0 lead. From this point on, there was little joy for the Brewers. Vassar faired batter in the second game, exploding for four runs in the third inning to take a 4-0 lead and on their way to the split.
Penn State Abington remained perfect on its Spring Break trip to Florida as the Nittany Lions downed Husson College, 16-6. The game was called after eight innings. The win was the third straight in as many days in the Sunshine State for Penn State Abington, which improved to 5-2 overall.Ryan McCarty was a triple shy of the cycle as he went 3-for-6, including his fifth home run of the year. He scored two times and knocked in two. Chase Swain was 4-for-5 with three runs scored while four other players had multiple-hit games.
John Carroll continued to dominate in Florida at Lake Myrtle Park Field #3 as they defeated Fitchburg State from Massachusetts 11-1 in eight innings. Matthew Auckerman was stellar on the bump for the Blue Streaks as he only allowed one base runner in five of his six innings of work. The junior also struck out nine, including the side in the third and only walked one batter. Owen Gerba and Maxwell Schumaker also did well out of the bullpen, each pitching an inning and recording a strikeout while not allowing any base runners. Despite Fitchburg State pitching allowing 12 hits, eight walks, and committing two errors, they managed to strike out the Blue Streaks 12 times.
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| For the second consecutive day, Roanoke would find themselves down to Case Western Reserve in the late innings. After posting a walk-off win over the Spartans last night, the Maroons used a two-run home run in the seventh to tie and a solo shot by Jonny Wall in the eighth to post another come from behind win, 10-9. Roanoke athletics photo |
Trailing 12-3 entering the top of the eighth inning, Plymouth State rallied for nine runs to tie the game, then plated four more in the ninth to storm past Bluffton, 16-13, in non-conference action during the Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic on Monday. Despite facing the seemingly insurmountable deficit, the Panthers’ bats were patient in the eighth using three singles, four walks, two errors and three hit batters to tie the game. Freshman Danny Quinn singled twice, scored a run and drove in two during the rally. The Beavers put two runners on with one down in the bottom of the inning, but senior Noah Wachter came in to get the final two outs to pick up the save for the second straight game. Bluffton opened the day with an 8-5 victory over Augustana.
For the second straight game, Christopher Newport scored in double figures as the Captains pulled ahead early and added plenty of insurance late against Hampden-Sydney College (6-4) on Monday, winning 17-3. The Captains won their seventh straight behind another strong pitching performance by Jay Cassady (3-0), striking out 13 over 6.0 innings pitched. Cassady gave up a lead off home run on the first pitch of the game but quickly left it in the past by getting eight straight strikeouts. The run continued with 10 of the first 12 outs coming by way of the punchout. Cassady scattered six hits with just the one run allowed to put his team in position for the win. His 13 strikeouts on the day marked his third double-digit strikeout performance in four starts this season.
Otterbein currently sits 3-1 after a 6-4 win over Haverford inside the historic Terry Park. The clash between two schools with annual NCAA Tournament expectations settled into an old-fashioned pitching dual between Haverford's Josh Fuller and Otterbein's Jackson Peloquin, making his first college start. Fuller retired the first 10 Cardinals and Peloquin used three double-play groundouts to remain intact, with the only blemish coming on a wild pitch in the second where Haverford took a 1-0 lead. Otterbein kept grinding and worked pitch counts, ultimately leaping in front on a 2-RBI single (with two outs) from Carter in the seventh. The Cards then opened a 5-1 edge in the eighth on a sequence that saw four timely singles. Freshman catcher Sam Roy's 2-RBI knock proved to be the biggest, as the recent defensive sub worked a lengthy at-bat in his lone plate appearance before dropping a ball into right-center. The Cards found an insurance run in the ninth and then finished the job behind lefty transfer Ashton Spurgeon, who tossed the final four outs for a save. His effort was benefited mightily by an acrobatic, potential game-saving catch by centerfielder Ryan Mitchell with one out and the tying run at the dish.
Saint John's ended its four-game skid with a 6-3 win over Muskingum on Monday in Ft. Myers, Fla. The Johnnies (3-4) broke open a 3-3 game with three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. SJU loaded the bases with free passes – a walk and two hit batsmen – before senior Ethan Roe belted a two-run double and junior Zach Selchow followed with an RBI single. Junior Cade Marsolek started the game and allowed two runs on six hits in five innings. He struck out six and walked one in the no-decision. Sophomore Alex Gwost made his first collegiate appearance and earned the win, allowing one run on two hits in two innings of relief. He struck out three and walked one. Junior Matt Herold hit his first batter, but set down the next six in order for his first collegiate save.
Dominican University won its third-straight game in Florida on Monday evening, holding off Trine University for a 9-7 victory. Dominican got off to a hot start, holding a 7-0 lead after 4.0 innings. Trine answered with a three-run sixth to cut the lead to 7-3, but DU responded with two runs in the bottom of the seventh. Up 9-3, the Stars navigated a Thunder four-run eighth to finish off the win with a scoreless ninth, claiming the 9-7 victory. Justin Gasper (1-1) started and earned the win, pitching 5.0 innings and giving up four hits and three earned runs. Dominic Desch closed out the ninth with two strikeouts and earned the save. Brandon Diedrich led the offense with three hits in five at-bats, knocking in two and scoring a run.