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| Alfred State continued their win streak, winning 6-2 against the Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers at Tiger Stadium in Rochester, New York on Thursday afternoon. The Pioneers (4-13) recorded 12 hits, 6 runs, 5 RBIs, 2 errors. The Tigers recorded (10-4) 5 hits, 2 runs, 1 RBIs, 2 errors. Alfred State athletics photo |
In their most exciting game of the year, Tufts University remained undefeated (9-0) with a 5-4 victory in 10 innings at Washington and Lee University Thursday afternoon. The Jumbos led 4-3 heading into the bottom of the ninth, but the host Generals (9-10) scored to force extra innings. Zach Senders led off with a single, stole second and was sacrificed to third by Jacob Jackson. He then scored to tie the game at 4-4 on a sac fly by Drew Larsen. In the Tufts 10th, the Jumbos loaded the bases on singles by Peter DeMaria and Kyle Cortese and pinch-hitter Ben Leonard getting hit by a pitch. Clay Sowell then walked on a 3-2 pitch to score pinch-runner Johnny Briody with the go-ahead run. In the bottom of the 10th, following a pair of walks to Washington and Lee batters, Matt Benda (pictured) entered in relief for Tufts with no outs. The runners were sacrificed to second and third, then Benda struck out Luke Czepiel for two outs. After walking Senders to load the bases, Benda went to a 3-0 count on Jackson before battling back to strike him out on a high fastball ending the game.
Sophomore Logan Stevens notched three hits, including a home run, and eight RBIs to power Ohio Northern to a 20-8 win over Alma on Thursday at Wander Field. Stevens added a pair of singles to his home run, which was a three-run bomb over the right-field fence in the second inning that put ONU up 10-3. Sophomore Dakota Durick also had three hits, including one double, in the game, and junior Nate Webb finished with a home run, double and three RBIs. In all, 11 Polar Bears tallied at least one hit in the game as ONU out-hit Alma by a 19-8 margin. Junior Jack Hutchins got the win on the mound for ONU after throwing 1.1 clean innings with one strikeout in a relief role.
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| No. 12 ranked UW-Whitewater hit a pair of home runs and used timely pitching Thursday for a 7-4 victory against Grinnell at Blue Wahoos Stadium in Pensacola, Fla. The Warhawks (8-3 overall), who won six of their seven games played in Pensacola, stranded 11 Pioneer runners and tallied two key insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth inning. UW-Whitewater athletics photo |
No. 1 ranked Marietta College tied a school and Ohio Athletic Conference record with 11 doubles as the Pioneers buried visiting La Roche University by the score of 31-6 Thursday afternoon at Pioneer Park. The Etta Express improves to 13-2 overall, while La Roche falls to 4-8 on the season. Marietta pounded the Redhawk pitchers for 31 runs on 27 base hits, including 17 extra-base hits with 31 runs batted in. The offensive outburst was the most runs, hits and RBI since the Etta Express defeated West Virginia Tech 32-0 in 2003. In that game, Marietta scored 32 runs on 32 base hits and had 31 RBI. The Etta Express batted around in three of the first four innings. Logan Vietmeier started the onslaught with a three-run home run.
Muskingum put together a dominated 25-4 performance to defeat Pitt.-Greensburg on Thursday night. After both teams failed to plate a run in the first inning, Muskingum erupted for nine runs in the second. Sophomore Nate Keiser got the scoring started with a two RBI double, and senior Trey also recorded his first triple of the season in the inning as well. Muskingum got the offense going again in the fourth inning, plating eight more runs to extend their lead to 17-2. Muskingum scored six more runs in the eighth inning, and another run in the ninth to secure their 25-4 win. The Muskies were led by sophomore Nate Keiser who finished 3-for-4 with 5 RBIs, two runs scored, and one double.
Trailing by an 11-1 margin after five innings, MIT rattled off 12 unanswered runs that included a six-run eighth inning to defeat No. 17 ranked Cal Lutheran by a 13-11 final on Thursday afternoon. The game caps a six-game spring break swing to California. MIT took the lead in the eighth with a six-run inning as Teddy Schoenfeld got the scoring started with a two-RBI double to right center by Schoenfeld that made it 11-8. Junior Jake Sonandres pulled MIT within one at 11-10 with a two-RBI single to right center, followed by a Michael Finch double down the right field line that scored Sonandres to tie it at 11-11. The Engineers took the lead at 12-11 on a passed ball, followed by a long solo homer to right from first-year Malachi Soqui that made it a 13-11 game. Junior Graham Cartwright came on for the ninth and worked a 1-2-3 inning to earn the save. Sophomore Saketh Gabbita earned the win for the Engineers to move to 2-0 on the season as he threw three hitless innings with a pair of strikeouts. Matt Campo took the loss for the Kingsmen to fall to 0-1 overall.
Hiram picked up a road victory on Thursday afternoon defeating Thiel, 9-6. A big first inning for Hiram put the Terriers up early with the team posting a five-spot before Thiel ever got the chance to bat. Hiram starting pitcher, Daniel Quintero Jr. cruised through the first three innings for Hiram allowing just two hits. The Tomcats stormed back in the fourth inning evening up the game at six with multiple RBI hits. In the seventh inning, Workman walked and Houdeshell hit a single before Marrs singled in Workman taking a 7-6 lead. After Marrs stole second base, Houdeshell scored, giving the Terriers an insurance run at 8-6. Jacob Kocuba closed the door for Hiram, allowing just one hit in his final two innings pitched picking up his second save of the year.
The Houghton Highlanders pulled off a pair of one-run victories in their last at-bats, defeating the visiting University of Pittsburgh-Bradford Panthers on a walk-off by Isaac Mann in game one, 6-5, and scoring the game's final run on an error in the bottom of the sixth in game two, to win, 5-4. In the bottom of the seventh, with the game knotted, 5-5, Isaac Mann laced a one-out base hit to left-center, scoring Davis Mcmillan from second base for the dramatic victory. Jackson Medeiros picked up the first win of his collegiate career, entering in the top of the fifth with the game tied, 4-4, and tossing two near-perfect, scoreless, innings of relief. "Our guys battled today. We came up with some big plays and some big hits when we needed them.," said Head Coach Brian Reitnour. "We dug a hole for ourselves in the first game, but we never quit, and we put together a well-executed inning to pull out a win."
"We dug a hole for ourselves in the first game, but we never quit, and we put together a well-executed inning to pull out a win.
Southern Virginia University earned their first conference victory Thursday night, taking down Averett University in the first game of the three-game series 9-3. Will Parker led the team with two hits, while Nick Daynes, Kyle Thompson, Mitchell Smith, Benjamin Horsley, Sinjun Johnson, and Jackson Massey recorded one. On the mound, Zach Zalar dominated, recording a game-high six strikeouts.
Senior outfielder Davis Graham drove in the go-ahead run and senior righthander Gavin Pulliam turned in a solid pitching performance as Ohio Wesleyan rallied for a non-conference 3-2 decision over Heidelberg on Thursday at Littick Field. Heidelberg threatened in the eighth and the ninth, getting 2 runners on base in each frame, but freshman righthander Sammy Stoner got out of the eighth and sophomore righthander Andy Anthony worked a scoreless ninth. Ryan Stefancin was 2-for-4 for Ohio Wesleyan. Gavin Pulliam allowed 3 hits over the first 6.1 innings, striking out 5, walking 3, and picking off 2 Heidelberg baserunners. Anthony was credited with a save.
Continued success at the plate for Bethel University led them to a non-conference sweep of Concordia Wisconsin Thursday afternoon inside U.S. Bank Stadium. The Royals plated double-digit runs for the seventh time this season taking game one 11-4 producing those 11 runs on 16 hits, seven of which came on extra bases. In game two the Royals had a 9-0 combined shutout effort from its pitching staff of Max Sutter and Ty Koehn. The young arm of Sutter tossed six scoreless innings recording a career-high nine strikeouts. Noah Wenberg had a day at the plate going 5-for-7 with four doubles, a triple, two walks, five runs and three RBIs. Kennan Hodgkin wasn't too far behind him at 3-for-6 with three doubles, two walks, two runs and five RBIs.
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| A dozen players recorded at least one hit Thursday afternoon for Grove City College as the Wolverines rolled to a 15-3 win at Geneva in the visiting Wolverines' Presidents' Athletic Conference opener. Grove City had a season-high 21 hits. Grove City athletics photo |
Benedictine University battled the elements to tally a one-run win, 4-3, the fifth in a row, over Trinity (Conn.) in Florida. The pitching staff was the story as they worked out of jams keeping the Eagles in the game. Stephen Sewruk struck out five in four innings. Austin Pizer earned the win, allowing one run in four innings of work out of the bullpen. Andrew Tenison spun a perfect ninth to record the save. Benedictine was out hit 8-4.
Sophomores Sam Lavin and Joey Glampe both homered as St. Olaf College eased to a 16-2 non-conference victory over Keuka College to open its Florida trip on Thursday at Northeast Regional Park. Lavin hit a two-run shot for his first collegiate home run in the second and Glampe blasted his first-career grand slam to help St. Olaf (2-2) to the run-rule victory in its fifth-ever meeting with Keuka (3-4). The Oles used three big innings to post their highest run total since a 16-7 victory at Bethany Lutheran on Apr. 25, 2019, scoring seven in the second, four in the third, and five in the fifth. St. Olaf's 1-2-3 hitters combined to go 7-for-9 with three walks, eight runs, and eight RBI in the win, as first year Evan Hammonds reached base all five times by going 3-for-3 with a walk, a hit-by-pitch, three runs and two RBI out of the leadoff spot. Lavin was 2-for-3 with two walks, two RBI, and three runs, while Glampe went 2-for-3 with two runs and four RBI. In addition to a 16-hit attack offensively, three Ole pitchers held the Wolves to six hits in the win. In his first collegiate start, Matthew Oberlander yielded just one run on four hits with three strikeouts in three innings. Sophomore Sean Goldman earned his first collegiate win by retiring all nine of the batters he faced while striking out four. Sophomore Thomas Quello struck out two Keuka hitters in the seventh inning.
Another shootout was on the horizon Thursday afternoon in non-conference action for Otterbein, which kept the hot bats rolling to outlast host Bluffton in a 16-12 slugfest at Memorial Field. The Beavers opened a 6-0 lead after three innings before Otterbein erupted in the fourth, scoring nine runs to jump ahead and never trail again. Otterbein out-hit Bluffton by a final margin of 19-8, with Brayden Quincel's 4 for 6 effort leading the charge. Travis Burson was rock solid en route to notching his second save, tossing 3.2 scoreless innings to finish the game while striking out five.
Franklin College faced falling temperatures and strong winds on Thursday night but were able to pick up a doubleheader sweep of Trine University at Grand Park. The opener saw Franklin (12-4) blow things open with a five-run third inning en route to a 12-2 win in eight innings. Game two had the Thunder (5-9) jump out to an early 5-0 lead before the Grizzlies shut them down to take an 11-5 victory. Matthew Earley smacked a two-run homer in the sixth and Adam Taylor closed out game one in the eighth with his second RBI double of the game. Five different Grizzlies had multiple hits with Sanders' three base knocks leading the offense. Freshman Matthew Johnson (2-1) turned in his second straight gem on the mound, allowing four hits and striking out six over seven innings of work. Damian Tillie (2-0) got the win on the mound in game two, tossing three innings of one-hit ball with one walk and one strikeout in relief. The quarter to Tillie, Mitch Merica, Chris Foote Nd Alex Reinoehl combined to allow just one run on four hits over eight innings of relief work.