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| Reed Wagner knocked a two-run single in the top of the eighth inning to score the go ahead runs in a 5-3 victory for the Messiah baseball team over the Stevenson Mustangs on Friday afternoon. Kasey Caras drove home two runs earlier in the contest as the Falcons wiped away a 3-0 deficit after the Mustangs scored there in the bottom of the first. Messiah athletics photo. |
Anna Maria College wrapped up their 2022 regular season in resounding fashion with a doubleheader sweep of visiting Norwich University on Friday afternoon in Great Northeast Athletic Conference action played at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. The AMCATS shutout the Cadets in game one, 11-0, before pulling away in game two, 12-3. The AMCATS have won 23 games for the first time in school history, and have put themselves in the driver's seat for the number two seed in the upcoming GNAC Championship playoffs pending the results of the remaining league games on Saturday. Senior shortstop Kosta Drosidis, the reigning GNAC Player of the Year and Anna Maria's all-time leader in career home runs, capped off his resume with another spectacular performance as he ripped out five hits on the day, including a three-run blast to left field to cap off a nine-run first inning to game one. Drosidis drove in four runs and scored two more on the day.
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| No. 18 ranked Oswego State took on the # 5 Cortland Red Dragons in an entertaining contest. This game went down to the wire as it was close all throughout and even stretched into 10 innings. The Lakers were able to come away with the win after Lukas Olsson hit a clutch three-run homer in the 10th inning with two outs after going down 7-6 in the top of the inning. Oswego athletics photo |
Down one. Bases loaded. Two outs. Full count. Rally time! Rally Miller's two-run single in the bottom of the eighth inning completed Hendrix's 4-3 comeback win over Sewanee on the second day of the Birmingham-Southern Pod in the Southern Athletic Association Tournament. The Warriors have won 17 of 25 meetings since joining the league, including six in a row overall and a 2-0 postseason mark, with both wins coming at neutral sites, and advance to the championship round of the pod. Hendrix (29-13), the fifth seed, faces No. 3 Birmingham-Southern. The Panthers were a 9-6 winner in eliminating Oglethorpe and defeated Sewane 9-5. The Warriors' 29 wins are second most in program history and one shy of matching the mark from 2019. Hendrix trailed by three down to its final six outs. The first four batters in the eighth reached base, culminating in two RBIs for Drake Job when he reached on a fielding error by Mike Lewishall, allowing Zach Marriott and Rail Gilliam to score. After an intentional walk to Hogan Ralston to load the bases for the second time in the frame, Miller delivered the seventh pitch of the at-bat to center for his only hit of the game, and Job and Juan Pablo Leon came home to put the Warriors in front for good.
Millsaps's offense was explosive early and late as the No. 6 seed Majors downed No. 7 seed Centre, 16-10 to improve to 2-0 in the SAA Tournament on Friday. Millsaps advanced to Saturday's Berry Pod Finals in the double-elimination format at William R. Bowdoin Field. It was a hitting derby as Millsaps (23-18) was able to post 20 hits, while Centre (17-24) notched 14. Junior Dylan McFarland then doubled to right field to bring Petkovsek around from first base to build a 13-10 cushion. Little continued the momentum with a 2-RBI double bringing Hart and McFarland around to score. The advantage grew to 16-10 when Page singled home Little for the ninth run of the inning. Millsaps finished off the victory with three final outs to move on to the Berry Pod Final. The Majors will face either Centre or Rhodes on Saturday. Host Berry was elimainted by Rhodes 18-10.
Clark University (15-15, 4-11 NEWMAC) played its first of a three-game series against WPI (14-17, 4-11 NEWMAC) and came away with a 4-3 victory on Friday night from Fitton Field on the campus of Holy Cross. Clark loaded the bases in the top of the sixth and scored another run when first-year Carter Doran was hit by a pitch and sophomore Samuel Farrell came around to score to take a 4-1 lead. WPI added a run in the seventh and got to within one in the ninth with a homer to left field, but junior Michael Carterud came in with a runner on second in the ninth and struck out two batters, including a strike out swinging to give Clark a 4-3 win.
A big game across the board, especially the bat of Cooper Foard and the arm of Grant Manning, powered baseball to a huge 6-4 win over the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens on Friday at Hart Park. As Foard stepped to the plate in the seventh inning he already brought with him two hits and an RBI. A runner, Cole Minato, stood out at second after a leadoff single awaiting the crack of Foard's bat. He ripped a line drive out into the gap in left center, getting down past the reach of the left fielder bringing Minato home, moving Drew Littwin to third and Foard to second with his arms raised in the air in triumph. At the time the Panthers took a 5-4 lead, which would later be extended as AJ Anzai walked bringing home Littwin. Manning got the win, improving to 6-1, allowing four earned runs, despite the errors, on ten hits striking out nine Sagehens. He was pulled in the ninth after recording one out with 136 pitches thrown. Mike Gorman came in to clean up the damage with a pair of runners on base. The senior struck out the Sagehens leadoff hitter and forced a fielder's choice ground out to end the game en route to his second save of the season.
At the college level, baseball is a spring sport, but in 2022, in the Upper Midwest anyway, it's probably more accurate to consider it a late-winter sport despite the fact the calendar says the season is technically spring. Since returning from its spring trip to Florida, UW-Superior has had to endure its share of the elements, with rain postponing numerous games, while on the days when they do play it has been anything but springlike. Still, as the game count has increased and winter has maintained its grip, the Yellowjackets have started playing their best baseball of the season. Friday afternoon, the Yellowjackets were on top of their game in all phases, riding strong defense, stronger pitching and a thundering offense to a sweep of North Central at the NBC Spartan Sports Complex. Ryan Rodriguez twirled a gem in the opener, going the distance in shutting out the Rams 10-0. In the second game, Riley Harbaugh and Payton Steiner combined on a two-hit shutout as the Yellowjackets completed the sweep with a 24-0 drubbing. With the wins, the Yellowjackets (13-15, 9-4 UMAC) have now won four straight and are 8-2 in their last 10.
Wilson College wrapped up regular season CSAC play with a monster offensive showing at Clarks Summit this afternoon. The Phoenix (27-9, 10-2 CSAC) took the opening game of the doubleheader by a score of 30-0 and finished off the nightcap with a 41-2 victory over the Defenders (1-26, 1-11 CSAC). The Phoenix scored at least one run in each inning with the exception of the 5th inning in the opener as the Phoenix offense pounded out a season high 33 hits, which would get surpassed in game 2. The 41 runs and 38 hits are program records for the Phoenix. Every single position player in the line-up recorded at least 1 hit and all but one of them also recorded at least 1 RBI. 5 Phoenix pitchers combined to allow just 3 hits while striking out 13.
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| Fitchburg State earned a walk-off walk win (13-12) over the Trailblazers of MCLA in Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference action this afternoon at Riccards Field. Fitchburg athletics photo |
William Paterson (25-12, 11-5 NJAC) scored the first seven runs of the game and cruised to a 19-10 baseball victory at Ramapo (14-21-1, 5-11 NJAC). The Pioneers scored six runs in the top of the second for an early lead. WPU added one in the third before Ramapo got on the board with two in the bottom half of the inning. WPU added two in the fourth, three in the fifth, six in the sixth and one in the seventh to extend their lead, 19-2. Ramapo came back with three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning and five more runs all with two outs in the ninth.
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MSOE was back playing at the friendly confines of MSOE Raiders Stadium to take on Dominican just a couple days removed from getting a taste of the big leagues. While miscues cost the Raiders a shot at the series sweep, they came back with a powerful performance in game two to split with the Stars. Errors and walks can kill you and that is exactly what happened to open up the day for MSOE (18-15, 13-5 NACC) as they dropped the opener 5-3 to Dominican. The Raiders needed to rebound in the second game of the day to keep pace with the leaders in the NACC and did just that with a 8-3 win in game two. MSOE got off to a good start with three runs in the bottom of the first and continue to add on. The only Dominican runs came around in the fifth inning but two of the three were unearned. The Red & White added insurance tallies in the seventh and eighth to complete the 8-3 victory. Starter Nolan Vincent went the distance and struck out nine while allowing just one earned run to lower his ERA to a sparkling 2.16.
The University of the Ozarks took game one 18-1 but dropped the second contest 12-6 to LeTourneau. Rennie Arjona blasted a grand slam and starting pitcher Blake Benson threw a four-hitter in a 18-1 blowout win against LeTourneau University in game one Friday. The Eagles pounded out 16 hits, including five extra base hits in the seven inning game. The Eagles held a 3-2 lead after two innings in the nightcap only to have LeTourneau score seven in the third to take a 12-6 win in game two. Dru Didway launched a two-run homer in the third to bring the score to 9-5. The Eagles would score on a balk for the third run of the frame. But the Eagles' offense went dormant after that collecting just three hits while being shutout. Alex Ray went 3-for-5 for the Eagles.
Reliever Shane Hykin settled down a rough start to the ninth inning, striking out the final two batters to secure a 10-9 victory for the Hope College at Calvin University on Friday. Calvin won game one 5-0. The MIAA-leading Flying Dutchmen (22-8, 14-4) held on to split the doubleheader and win the three-game series. Hope remains one game ahead of second-place Kalamazoo College in the loss column with one three-game series remaining for the Flying Dutchmen: Thursday-Friday, May 6-7 against Trine University.
Texas-Dallas entered its final three-game American Southwest Conference series needing just one win to claim the league's No. 2 spot and the right to host a four-team ASC Red Bracket Tournament next weekend; and got it in their first game of a Friday doubleheader with a 3-2 come-from-behind win over Belhaven. The Comets (28-11, 20-9 ASC) then fell in the second game, 8-0. The Comets and Blazers (25-14, 18-11 ASC) finish up the series with a 12 noon single game Saturday at the UTD Baseball Field. With the win, however, UTD qualified to be the host site of one of two four-team, double-elimination tournaments the ASC will stage next Thursday-Saturday, May 5-6-7. Participants and game schedules will be announced later this weekend The winners of the Red Bracket and Blue Bracket Tournaments will meet for the ASC title in a best-of-three series May 12-13-14.
AJ Staff tossed a complete game two-hitter and Jacob Small was 3-for-4 with two extra-base hits as Carleton College defeated Hamline, 5-2, on Friday afternoon. The day's second game was suspended due to rain with the Knights leading 4-3 in the middle of the fifth inning. Hamline scored both its runs in the top of the third inning, thanks to back-to-back two-out run-scoring singles, the only hits the Pipers would get in the contest. Carleton answered with a three-run rally in the bottom of the frame. The Knights tacked on two more runs in the fourth inning as Small's two-out triple chased home Jack Hommeyer and a throwing error led to the other run. Staff kept the Pipers in check the rest of the way as he did not permit another runner past first base. All told he gave up only two singles and three walks while collecting a career-best seven strikeouts in tossing his second career complete game.
LaGrange took Game 1 of its USA South series showdown with Huntingdon by a football-like score of 21-11 on Friday night at Posey Field. The fourth-ranked Panthers upped their overall record to 31-5 and 14-2 in the conference. The Panthers tied their season high for runs in banging out 19 hits, including home runs from Rhett Mixon and David Smigelski. Every Panther in the lineup had at least one hit. McKinley Erves reached base in all six of his at-bats. He had three hits, walked three times, and scored four runs. Joe Ruth had three hits, including a double, and two RBIs. Gabriel Pallo had three hits, while Jack Layrisson had a pair of hits and drove in four runs.
Misericordia University ended the regular season home stand by setting a season-high for runs in 27-7 win over Delaware Valley, Friday afternoon at Tambur Field. The win locks the Cougars into the #2 seed for the MAC Freedom Championships. Austin Miles finished 3-4 with three runs scored and four RBI. Connor Maryniak went 3-4 with a double, four RBI, and a home run. Santino Manganella scored twice and drove in three while Derrick Vosburg and Jack Regenye both scored three runs and added an RBI. Owen VanNewkirk and Brendan Gray both hit home runs. Brady Madden went 3-5 with a double, two runs and two RBI and Brock Bollinger collected three hits and an RBI.
SUNY Brockport hosted its annual Hometown Heroes game on Friday to all first responders and those who have served in our nation's military. The team defeated the New Paltz Hawks in the game by a score of 7-3. Andrew Huffman (7-2) got his ninth start of the season as the fifth-year right-hander recorded a total of 12 strikeouts against the Hawks and allowed seven hits and two-run without walking a single batter in the game. Relieving Huffman to start off the eighth inning was Adam Douglas who allowed three hits and one run while striking out one batter through the final two innings of the game.
St. Joseph's University Brooklyn's bats came alive as they outscored Yeshiva University, 52-10, in a Skyline Conference twin bill on Friday afternoon. In the Bears' (9-23, 7-11) 28-7 game-one win over the Maccabees (2-23, 0-18), 11 batters recorded base knocks while Louis Lombardi and Abner Victor combined for 10 of the team's 26 RBI. Kevin Reyes' four-RBI showing in game two lifted the navy and gray to a 24-3 triumph over the hosts. The graduate student moves to within one hit of reaching the 100-hit milestone. Omar Salcedo and Alex Goldberg came within singles of hitting for the cycle as they combined to bat 6-for-7. Thomas Jankowski and Ryan Wnorowski each recorded their first collegiate victories on the bump.
In the first game of a three-game weekend series, MIT defeated Emerson College by an 8-5 final on Friday afternoon at Fraser Field. Matt Leonard went five innings on the mound, allowing just one hit and two runs with three strikeouts to improve to 1-4 on the year. For Emerson, Johnny Maffei lasted just one inning with four hits, six earned runs and five walks as he is now 1-5 overall. Kyle Sonandres and Brian Rapanan led MIT with two hits apiece, while the MIT pitching staff held the Lions to just two hits in the game.
Behind two huge starting pitching performances, the Concordia University Chicago baseball team swept the Benedictine University Eagles on Friday afternoon. The Cougars scored early in game one and then were able to ride strong pitching by Jack Rector and Vincent Sartori to a 12-5 win. Then in game two CUC grabbed the lead midway through, then gave the ball to Westin Stutzman and Wyatt McLaughlin for the 5-2 win.
Penn State Abington scored 15 runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to rally to defeat Gallaudet University, 22-9, in United East Conference action on Friday afternoon at Alverthorpe Park. With the win, the Nittany Lions extended their season-long winning streak to 11 games. Trailing 9-7 entering the bottom of the seventh inning, Abington needed just two runs to tie the game. They did that and much, much more. Abington sent 21 batters to the plate in the seventh and registered 15 runs and six hits. The team took advantage of inconsistency from the Gallaudet pitchers with seven walks and three hit batters in the inning. Freshman Anthony Bencardino also drove in a pair of runs in the inning with a two-run double.
Centenary (La.) exploded for a season-high tying 19 runs on Friday night in its Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference series opener over the University of St. Thomas Celts, as the Diamond Gents cruised to a dominating 19-1 victory in eight innings at Don Sanders Field at Darryl & Lori Schroeder Park on the University of Houston campus. The Diamond Gents (24-13, 14-5 SCAC) extended their season-high winning streak to 10 games while the Celts (15-23, 9-10 SCAC) had their three-game winning streak snapped. Centenary has won 12 of its last 13 games and is 10-7 on the road this season. Centenary is 4-0 all-time versus St. Thomas after sweeping them at home last season. The Diamond Gents also scored 19 runs earlier this season in a 19-3 at Occidental on March 5.
Stevens Institute of Technology clinched a spot in the postseason and defeated MAC Freedom opponent FDU-Florham 5-4 on a walk off home run from junior Michael Reyes at home, Friday. All five Stevens runs came from home runs. Graduate student Hunter Silvernail and junior Ben Tobio each hit homers for the Ducks and junior Anthony Pron (7-4) was credited with the win. The Ducks improved to 26-12 overall and 12-7 in conference play with the victory.
Senior Tyler McCullough went 3 for 4 with three RBI for FDU-Florham to lead the team. Graduate student Christian Capuono (4-4) pitched a complete game and struck out 10 batters but received the loss from the mound. The Devils fell to 19-17 overall and 8-11 in conference with the loss.
Buena Vista was back on its home turf on Friday afternoon to begin a three-game weekend series with the University of Dubuque.The Beavers utilized some timely hits to pick up a thrilling 5-4 win. With a 5-4 lead heading into the 9th, the Beavers would bring in closer Calvin Harris to attempt to secure the win. Harris managed to work around a leadoff walk when Oseka picked him off first, and then retired the side on just four hitters giving the Beavers a 5-4 win. Harris collected his fifth save of the year.
On Thursday, it was the Montclair State bats on display with 25 runs and 28 hits in its victory over Kean. A day later, the Red Hawks showed they can also pitch as well. Freshman lefthander Ethan Gonzalez tossed a six-hit shutout as Montclair completed a sweep of their home-and-home series with the Cougars, posting an 11-0 victory at Jim Hynes Stadium. Shortstop Jason Moore homered and finished with two RBI as MSU (28-9) moved a game in front of Kean for second place in the NJAC standings at 13-3, one game behind Rowan for the top spot. The first-place Profs host Kean in a doubleheader on Saturday in Glassboro while the Red Hawks head to Camden for its twinbill with Rutgers-Camden starting at 2:00 pm. Gonzalez registered the first complete-game shutout by a Montclair State hurler since March of 2019. The lefty gave up six singles and struck out two as he improved to 4-1 on the year.
With Gonzalez recording another outstanding outing in the pitching department, the Red Hawk offense did what it's done almost all season – score runs. MSU hit double-digits in the run department for the 13th time.
Rowan scored 16 runs on 16 hits, led by three each from Anthony Schooley and Chris Curcio, as the #7 Profs defeated Stockton, 16-7, in NJAC action on the road. Rowan (28-6; 14-2 NJAC) took a 10-0 lead in winning their seventh game in a row. Schooley was 3-for-5 with three RBI and a run while Curcio went 3-for-6 with two runs and two RBI. Patrick Defeciani scored three runs and had two RBI with Tyler Cannon getting two hits, including his first home run as a Prof. Mike Miles (2-1) went 6.0 innings and struck out seven to earn the win. Ryan Bush, Patrick Sudnikovich and David Levin preserved the win in relief.
Three pitchers combined on a 5-0 shutout, including seven innings from senior starter Stephen Quigley, to lead the Wheaton (Mass.) over host Babson College this afternoon in a New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference contest at Govoni Field in Babson Park, Mass. The Lyons won their 10th straight and improve to 23-10 on the season and 12-3 in league play, while the Beavers dip to 23-11 and 12-3. Quigley improved to 6-2 after allowing just three hits and no walks to go with eight strikeouts for Wheaton. The right-hander retired the first 13 batters he faced to carry a perfect game into the fifth inning with one out.
Nine runs across the final three innings helped the No. 8 Arcadia University open its final Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom series with a 12-5 win at DeSales University on Friday afternoon. The Knights, who with the victory have secured and outright claim to the MAC Freedom regular season championship, improved to 17-2 in conference play and 32-6 overall. Nick Fossile improved to 5-1 with the win, allowing nine hits and two runs across 6.0 innings with four strikeouts and one walk. Owen Margolis earned his eighth save of the season tossing the final three innings. Alex Madera finished 3-for-4 with two rbis's and two runs scored while Emilio Pallante went 4-for-6 with one rbi to lead the offense.
St. Scholastica finally got a chance to face Augsburg University on Friday after being postponed the last two weeks. The Saints were able to win the first game of the doubleheader, with help from a dominant performance from Jake Schelonka on the mound and a multi-RBI game from Matt Tautges and Luke Schemenauer. In game two of the afternoon however, the Saints couldn't find the same success, falling 12-2, splitting today's doubleheader. The Auggies jumped out on the Saints in the first inning on the nightcap, scoring four runs and giving them an early lead. Augsburg would add runs as the Saints struggled to register base hits, eventually recording just five hits all game. Augsburg added its 12th and final run of the ballgame in the sixth inning, and as the Saints could not mutter any more runs in the top of the seventh, Augsburg took game two of the doubleheader by a score of 12-2.
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford was able to earn a split in their AMCC doubleheader with Penn State Altoona, however, the walk-off loss in game one eliminated them from playoff contention. The openers saw the Panthers erase an early 4-1 deficit, eventually taking a 9-7 lead, however, they were unable to hold on late, falling 10-9 in walk-off fashion. The 2-run Panther lead in game one evaporated quickly in the bottom half as the leadoff batter reached on an error and the next hit a game-tying home run to center. The home run was followed by a single, putting the winning run on base. After a fly ball to right, the Lions singled through the right side on a hit and run. On the play, the throw from the outfield got away at third base, going out of play which allowed the winning run to score and end the game. The second game of the day saw the hosts erase a 3-0 Panther lead before Pitt-Bradford battled back to win 5-3. The Panthers broke a tie in the 8th. With two outs, Justin Dattoli drew a walk to extend the inning. Noah Meyers stepped up next and hit a long home run to the right-center field to give the Panthers the lead. In the bottom half, Miles retired the side in order to send the game to the 9th with a 2-run Panther lead. The Lions started off the 9th with a pair of singles to chase Miles. He was replaced by Alex Fetter, who was able to get the first out of the inning on a fielder's choice at third. Both runners moved into scoring position on a balk, but Fetter was able to strike out the last two batters to shut the door.