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| On opening day, Huntingdon (1-0) traveled to Jackson, Mississippi and took down the Majors of Millsaps (0-1) 3-1. Huntingdon athletics photo |
On opening day, Huntingdon traveled to Jackson, Mississippi and took down the Majors of Millsaps 3-1. Stellar pitching from Hawks Michael Driver, Jable Ramey, Jackson Joiner, and Closer Seth Killiam shut down any offensive momentum by the Majors. Michael Driver started the day for the Hawks, only allowing one base hit despite the Majors scoring a run, Ramey took over for Driver in the bottom of the third inning, not giving up a single base hit. Joiner followed Ramey on the mound in the 6th inning, only allowing one base hit to set up Killiam to close and earn the victory for the Hawks.
Moravian squad began the 2024 season with a 3-2 non-conference victory at Kean Monday afternoon. Senior David Ciaccio made the start on the mound for the Hounds and allowed a run on five hits and a walk while tossing the first six innings of the contest to begin the year with a victory. Graduate student Noah Ingalls earned his first career save as he allowed a run on three hits to go with one strikeout. Kean out hit Moravian 8-3 with the games only extra base hits, doubles by Justin Teixeira and Christian Pellone.
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| Fontbonne earned a coming-from-behind victory over Hannibal-LaGrange on February 13th, 18-9. The Griffins are 1-0 on the season. Fontbonne athletics photo |
Centenary (La.) split a non-conference doubleheader with Rhodes Tuesday, falling 10-2 in game one and responding with an 11-2 win in game two which gave Centenary head coach Mike Diaz career win number 300 as the Diamond Gents opened their regular season at the USA Baseball Stadium Complex. Centenary and Rhodes met on the diamond for the first time in each other's history and it was a matchup of two teams with high hopes this season as both are receiving votes in the 2024 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Preseason Top 25 Poll. Diaz, now in his 14th season with the Diamond Gents, became the all-time winningest coach in program history last season with his 292nd win on April 16, 2023 at home versus Schreiner University and is now 300-212-1, having passed former HC Ed McCann (1999-2010) for the all-time wins mark.
An early rally, a big middle inning and the thwarting of a late comeback all highlighted Oglethorpe's season-opening 10-9 win over Emory Tuesday night in a frozen marathon at Hermance Stadium. Brick Conway debuted for the Stormy Petrels with three hits while three others posted multiple hits. Paul Gaeta earned the win in relief with two shutout innings in a day that saw eight arms make an appearance. Emory was up 6-3 in the third, but Oglethorpe took the lead for good with its big inning in the fourth. Emory would threaten in each remaining inning but to no avail. In the sixth, with the score still 8-6, the Eagles put runners on second and third but Charlie Boyce fanned his third in the inning to keep it 8-6. In the seventh, Emory had two on with one out but came up empty thanks to Hunter Spence getting a strikeout and flyout to end the inning.
The University of Dubuque opened their 2024 season with a road doubleheader sweep over the Lyon College Scots by a 13-1 margin in game one in seven innings, and nearly doubled that length in the second contest. The game was tied after nine innings, when UD scored four runs in the top of the 13th inning and held on for lengthy 5-1 victory for new Spartans coach Dan Spain. The Spartans trailed in their first game of the season after the opening inning by a 0-1 score. UD settled in and would end the nine inning game early after scoring a run in the second, three runs in the fourth, a run in the fifth, and four runs in the sixth and seventh innings for a final of 13-1. Johnny Blake earned the win on the mound after five innings, allowing one run off four hits while striking out 10 batters in the season opener. Teammate Aiden Sullivan came in for relief and fanned three batters in two complete innings with no hits and a walk.
In game two, the Spartans scored a run in the fourth and it appeared as though that might be enough. The hosts scored in the bottom of the eighth to knot the game at 1-1. After nine innings it was still tied 1-1. The two squads would put runners in scoring position for the next four innings before UD scored four runs in the top of the 13th inning to grab the lead 5-1 to collect the season opening sweep. The Spartans scored five runs after nine hits and held the Scots to one run off right hits.