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| The 12th ranked Webster University Gorloks were back on the diamond this afternoon when they played host to the Blackburn College Beavers for a SLIAC doubleheader. The Gorloks swept the doubleheader as they won the first game by a final score of 4-1 and the second game by a final score of 10-0 (8 inn.) to improve to 17-5 on the season and 6-2 in SLIAC play. With the sweep, the Beavers fall to 3-22 on the year and 1-10 in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Webster athletics photo |
No. 23 Shenandoah University reached the 20-win mark Saturday by sweeping an ODAC baseball doubleheader from arch-rival Randolph-Macon. Shenandoah (20-8-1, 7-4-1 ODAC) was a 7-6 winner in the opener before completing the sweep over the Yellow Jackets (17-7, 6-4) with an 8-6 victory in the nightcap. The Hornets broke open a 2-2 game with a four-run seventh and scored the eventual winning run in the eighth on their way to the 7-6 victory. A seven-run first proved to be enough offense for Shenandoah to complete the sweep in the 8-6 victory.
No. 11th Salisbury University easily swept a doubleheader against Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference rival Mary Washington on Saturday afternoon at Sea Gull Baseball Stadium. The Sea Gulls steamrolled the Eagles 14-0 in the opener and came one out shy of another shutout in the nightcap, winning 6-1 to extend their winning streak to eight games. The Sea Gulls broke the ice by batting around in the third inning of game one. Cameron Hyder set the tempo at the top of the Sea Gull lineup, going 3-for-4 with two runs, an RBI and a stolen base. Just like in the opener, the Sea Gulls began their nightcap scoring in the third inning. Zach Geesaman gave SU an extra cushion in the bottom of the eighth, blasting a line drive solo homer to left to make it 6-0. The Eagles broke up the shutout in the ninth as Ty Lowe doubled and eventually scored on a Xavier Herring RBI groundout that gave the game its final 6-1 line.
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William Paterson (15-9, 2-3 NJAC) rallied from an early deficit to win the night cap, 4-3, after an opening 13-2 loss at No. 14 Kean (22-6, 5-1 NJAC). The Pioneers struck first in game one but it was kean that struck last in a 13-2 win. Kean took a 3-0 second-inning lead with four singles in game two. Just like game one, the eventually winner came back to win. WP took the lead during the sixth, taking advantage of errors and a pitching staff, unable to find the plate on a consistent basis.
After going 7-for-10 in three games last week, senior third baseman Luke Broadhurst continued to swing a hot bat during Saturday afternoon's Little East Conference doubleheader against UMass Dartmouth at UMD Baseball Park. Going 6-for-9 with a grand slam in game one, five total RBIs, four runs scored, a stolen base, and 10 total bases,the bat of Broadhurst led the way for the Warriors (18-2, 6-0 LEC) to a sweep over the Corsairs (10-10, 1-3 LEC) by final scores of 16-0 and 13-6. Equally as impressive was the starting pitching performances by junior right-hander Billy Oldham and senior right-hander Bryan Albee. Spinning a seven-inning complete game in game one, Oldham earned his fifth win of the season with a three-hit shutout while striking out 10 batters. It was the fourth start this season in which the right-hander has struck out 10 or more batters in a start.
Eli Atiya threw a shutout through seven innings to lead #7 Rowan to an 8-0 win over Montclair State (18-7; 3-1) in the first game of a doubleheader, but the Red Hawks rebounded to score a 6-5 in the second game and earn the split. Rowan is now 16-5 on the season and 3-1 in NJAC play. Atiya ran his record to 5-0 as he scattered three hits, not allowing any walks and striking out five along the way. Mike Shannon closed out the win pitching two scoreless innings. Rowan jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first but Montclair State countered with four runs in the bottom half to maintain the lead it never lost.
The University of Lynchburg scored seven-straight runs in a 9-4 win over Christopher Newport Saturday afternoon. The fifth-ranked Hornets visited the No. 24 Captains for a midseason, out-of-conference clash. Zack Potts toed the rubber and was dealing for six innings and fanned six batters. Potts has 48 Ks on the season. By the time Potts was lifted in the seventh, the Hornets led 7-0. Holden Fiedler drove in the first run of the game and his first of four RBI with a groundout in the second. Avery Neaves, PJ Alvanos, and Gavin Collins strung together three-straight at-bats with RBI in the third. Collins went 2-5 on the day with a triple and has seven multihit games over the last nine contests.
The newly ranked Leopards replaced California Lutheran University as the second SCIAC team listed in the national D3 baseball rankings this week, sharing the list now with the #22 ranked Chapman University Panthers. La Verne hosted the Kingsmen Saturday for a doubleheader, riding Gerald Terry's scoreless inning streak to a series victory, before losing the day's second game. Against the Kingsmen, Terry persevered for eight shutout innings allowing just two hits, inducing soft contact all game long, and striking out nine. By the end of the series' first two games, La Verne racked up 30 hits against Cal Lutheran and outscored them 19-2. The Leopards scattered 12 hits in game one's 11-2 victory. Left-hander Benny Vogel made his season's sixth start in Saturday's second game, which resulted in ULV's second conference loss 7-3.
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| For only the 10th time in UT Dallas' 20-year baseball history, and the first time since 2017, a Comet pitcher surrendered just one hit in a seven-inning start as freshman transfer Trevor McGrath (pictured) shut out the University of the Ozarks, 18-0, to cap off a three- game, American Southwest Conference sweep of the Eagles. UTD (23-6, 16-5 ASC) won the opener of the doubleheader, 4-2. Texas Dallas athletics photo |
Dalton Brooks' pitching gem gave No. 4 LaGrange a sweep of its USA South doubleheader with a 1-0 win over Brevard on Saturday. The Panthers (23-3, 7-1 USA South) took Game one 9-1. Brooks threw a complete game 1-hitter to improve his record to 4-0. He allowed only a lead off single in the seventh inning to Logan Clark. Brooks walked three and struck out 10 in giving the Panther pitching staff its second shutout of the season. It was the first complete game shutout by a Panther since Colin Barrett did it in 2018, also against Brevard. The Panthers banged out 13 hits in taking Game 1.
In their first home series of the 2022 campaign, No. 18 Loras College (23-4, 7-4 A-R-C) went toe-to-toe with the Prairie Wolves from Nebraska Wesleyan University (10-13, 3-5 A-R-C) in an American Rivers Conference (A-R-C) matchup, sweeping the Wolves 6-4 and 9-8. In game one of the day, senior closing pitcher Ethan Peters set the single-season saves record with his eighth of the season, placing him tied for second in program history with 14 saves to his name in his four-year career. After taking game one, the Duhawks posted a four-run rally in the ninth inning, capped off by a walk-off RBI single off the bat of freshman outfielder Max McCallum to see the Duhawks take both games of the series-opening doubleheader.
Cortland scored three or more runs in five different innings and the nationally sixth-ranked Red Dragons routed visiting Brockport, 22-3, in a SUNYAC baseball matchup. Cortland (21-7, 8-1 SUNYAC) finished with 24 hits from a total of 15 players, and the Red Dragons' nine doubles in the contest are the most by the team since hitting nine doubles at Hampden-Sydney in the 2007 season opener. Cortland scored six runs in the first, one in the second and three in the third to take a 10-0 lead. Brockport (19-4, 7-2 SUNYAC) scored all three of its runs in the top of the fifth, but the Red Dragons answered with four runs in the bottom of the inning and three more in the sixth to go up 17-3. Cortland's final five runs came in the bottom of the eighth.
Twenty-five hits, 24 runs, three homers — including a pair of back-to-back blasts, and two outstanding starts on the mound are just cracking the surface of accomplishments Chapman achieved in Saturday's doubleheader and series sweep over the Caltech Beavers, 16-2 and 8-2. A nine-run bottom of the fourth helped the Panthers pull away in game one. An inning prior, however, the Panthers big bats of Davis Mieliwocki and Cooper Foard went back-to-back, Mielwocki's a two-run bomb and Foard's a solo shot. Foard added yet another home run in this one. It's his fourth straight game with a bomb and he's now 9-for-20 in his last five games. Max Banks had his best performance in game two since facing Cal Lutheran in mid-March. The freshman hurler earned the win allowing two runs, neither earned, over five innings of work, striking out six Beavers.