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| Elizabethtown successfully eluded the sting of no.17 Shenandoah, 6-5 on a sunny Monday at Boyd Stadium. Elizabethtown scored their final run of the game in the seventh as RJ Agriss recorded a RBI-single. The Blue Jays got in some trouble in the ninth as Shenandoah scored three runs on four hits. Zach Silfies came in to pitch in the ninth with two outs but successfully earned the save after striking out the final batter to win. Elizathtown athletics photo by Ryan Smith |
Cal Lutheran swept La Verne in their oft rescheduled doubleheader on Monday with the Kingsmen taking the opener 5-1 and getting a walkoff 7-6 win in game two. The Kingsmen win the series two games to one with La Verne winning the Friday opener.
Gwynedd Mercy University (9-18) welcomed Penn State Abington (11-18) to Frank O. Genuardi Legends Field where the Griffins offense started out hot and stayed hot throughout the contest. After recording 12 hits just the day before to Marymount University, the Red and Gold registered 14 hits in just six innings of work to the Nittany Lions and won by a final score of 15-2 in seven innings. Freshman infielder Drew Haines had a career day, going three-of-five from the dish with a career-high five runs-batted-in. Senior pitcher Joe Golden picked up his third win (3-0) of the season with a final stat line of (3.0IP, 5H, 2ER, 5K). Gwynedd Mercy would score the first 15 runs and only lost the shutoput in the seventh inning when the mercy rule was enforced.
St. John Fisher University completed a three-game sweep of Keuka on the campus of Finger Lakes Community College on Monday, winning both ends of a doubleheader. Down 7-0 after two innings, the Cardinals stormed back to outscore Keuka 12-1 over the remaining five innings, scoring two runs in the third and five in the fourth before taking the lead for good on a Keuka error in the sixth. Senior third baseman James Murphy went 3-for-5 with a triple, a walk, two stolen bases, and three runs scored as the Cardinals dominated Keuka in the second game, forcing an early end thanks to the run rule.
Saint John's (Minn.) stayed hot in a non-conference sweep of Northwestern on Monday, April 15, at Haugen Field at Becker Park. The Johnnies (17-8, 6-2 MIAC) cracked 15 hits to take game one with an 11-3 score and totaled 11 more hits in game two but needed a walk-off home run from junior catcher Blake Mellgren on the first pitch of the bottom of the seventh inning for a 4-3 victory and the sweep. SJU batted .448 (26-for-58) in the doubleheader, which was originally scheduled for March 25 but had to be postponed due to weather, two days after it batted .493 (34-for-69) with 16 extra-base hits (10 doubles and six home runs) in a home sweep of Carleton. The Johnnies' top-two hitters in the batting order – senior right fielder Rodney Erickson and senior second baseman Owen Dauk – combined to go 11-for-13 at the plate with three RBI, two doubles and nine runs scored against Northwestern (12-16, 9-3 UMAC).
MIAA-leading Hope College capped a three-game series sweep of The University of Olivet with an 11-0 victory on Monday. The Flying Dutchmen ended the game early on a two-run, walk-off homer by sophomore designated hitter Cade Seabaugh in the bottom of the seventh inning at Boeve Baseball Stadium. Batting cleanup, Seabaugh finished the game with a career-high five RBIs while going 3-for-4 with two home runs and three runs scored. The offense proved more than enough for junior pitcher Trent Johnson. The righthander upped his record to 4-3 by firing a complete-game, five-hit shutout with seven strikeouts to just two walks.
For the first time since the 2007 season, John Jay moved to 4-0 in CUNY Athletic Conference play, as the Bloodhounds took both games of Monday's doubleheader, defeating the Lehman College Lightning, 26-7 in game one and 25-7 in game two. John Jay moves to 12-13 overall on the season and extends their win streak to three while the Lightning fall to 0-16 and 0-6 in conference action. Veteran Bloodhound Michael Mauro reached a career milestone, as the Yorktown Heights, NY native and team captain recorded his 100th career hit in Monday's twinbill.
Macalester to Northfield this afternoon for a MIAC doubleheader against Carleton. The Scots came back in game one to take the victory, 6-3. In game two, the Knights and Scots battled to the end, but Carleton came out on top, 11-7. The Scots are now 6-21 (2-10 MIAC). In the seventh, junior Bowman Wingard sealed the deal with a two-run homer to take the game 6-3. Sophomore Ben King got the win on the mound, pitching five innings, striking out six Knights. Junior Jacob Posner registered the save. In the second game, Carleton took the lead 5-4 in the sixth only to see Macalester reclaimed the lead in the seventh. However, the Knights were able to tack on six more runs and defeat the Scots 11-7.
Salem State and Framingham State each won a game apiece on Monday in MASCAC doubleheader action from Bowditch Field. The Vikings, behind the pitching performance of Matt Walling took game two, 5-4 over the Rams after Framingham State won the opener, 7-1. Salem State is now 13-10 and 6-5 in league play while the Rams now stand at 7-12 and 5-3. Vincent LoGuidice pitched six innings, allowing just a run on six hits with two walks and four strikeouts to lead the Rams to a 7-1 game one victory. Walling pitched three scoreless innings in relief to earn the victory in the nighcap, allowing three hits with two strikeouts. Jake Boucher picked up his second save, as he did not allow a hit in two innings of work, finishing with three strikeouts. Owen Duggan went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI.
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| The Arcadia offense continued to sizzle as the Knights finished off its three-game sweep of Delaware Valley University, winning 15-5 in seven innings. Arcadia athletics photo by Hunter Martin |
Fourth-ranked Salisbury University scored in all of its turns at-bat and cleared 20 runs for the third time this season, taking down the Wilson Phoenix, 20-2, in a weather-abbreviated seven-inning game on Monday afternoon at Donnie Williams Sea Gull Baseball Stadium. Andrew Kell continued his torrid pace at the plate, going 2-for-3 with two doubles, four RBIs, and a run scored. Zach Geesaman finished 3-for-5 with a double, homer, two runs, and five RBIs. Ethan Hirschfeld pitched into the fifth inning in his start, allowing two runs on five hits in four-plus frames with two walks and a strikeout on 48 pitches. Salisbury has now scored 20 or more runs in a game three times this season. SU plated 23 at Ursinus on Mar. 16 and put up 22 at Widener on Mar. 26.
- Photo gallery: Carleton vs. Macalester game one | Carleton vs. Macalester game two
Suffolk ran past Emerson, 16-6, in eight innings. Seven Rams contributed at least one hit, with five multi-hit performances to lead to the Beantown bragging rights. Emerson trimmed a 10-5 margin back to four in the top of the eighth as Smith singled, stole second and third and scored on Anthony Santosuosso's base hit to center. A throwing error by the Lions left fielder allowed another run to come in before Gilbride's one-run single to left sealed the 16-6, eight-inning win for the Suffolk. Garret Roberts went 4-for-5 with three doubles. He brought in two runs and scored four himself. Jonny Gilbride added three hits, including one double, three runs, two RBI, and one walk. Suffolk moved to 28-1 against Emerson dating back to 2000 including the last 22.
Allegheny College broke out the bats in a big way on a sunny Monday afternoon at Robert M. Garbark Field en route to a 17-7 victory over Hiram College. Allegheny (17-7) scored at least one run in all seven innings of the mercy-rule-shortened game and posted crooked numbers in five innings. As a team, the Gators produced 10 extra-base hits with seven doubles, tied for the third-most in a game in team history, and three home runs. Individually, Brady Nolin tied an Allegheny record for the most doubles in a game with three, as the slugging third baseman finished 3-for-3 with a team-high four RBIs. Nolin is the sixth Gator to log three doubles in a game, and the second to do so against Hiram; Andy Schleihauf '10 hit a trio of two-baggers in a 9-1 win over the Terriers on April 2, 2010.
Monmouth College returned to Midwest Conference action on Monday night at Cornell with an 11-4 win. The Fighting Scots (12-12, 5-6) scored eight unanswered runs to win the game, the first of three matchups with the Rams in 2024. "Big result for us on the road and we showed a lot late in the game." said head coach Alan Betourne. "This all came together pretty quick yesterday and coordinating travel, classes and revamping our schedule but it all worked out for us." Clayton Matkovic tied the school record for triples with his sixth triple of the season with current head coach Betourne. "As soon as Clayton hit that ball I knew he had a chance at a triple and I welcomed him to the club," said Betourne. Matkovic has hit safely in 15 of the last 16 games and he has 10 multi-hit games. He leads the Scots with eight doubles and six triples.
Sophomore Brendan Flynn extended his hot streak at the dish with another three hit game and Plymouth State University used a seven-run second inning to thunder past Gordon College, 16-10, in a non-conference game at J. Tec White Field on Monday afternoon. The Panthers had just four hits in the second but sent 12 men to the plate taking advantage of an error, hit batter and three walks. Flynn blasted a three-run homer to push the margin to 7-0. Trailing 12-3, Gordon scored once in the sixth and added four runs in the seventh to pull within 12-8, but a run-scoring double and a Danny Quinn’s three-run shot in the eighth made it 16-8. The Fighting Scots got a pair of solo homers in the eighth to account for the final score. Flynn finished 3-for-3 with a walk, hit by pitch, homer and five RBIs. He is 11 for his last 14 with 13 RBIs over his last four games, raising his batting average from .188 to .370 in the process. Owen Baum and Quinn also had three-hit games. Baum went 3-for-4 with a double, walk, two hit by pitches, three runs scored, and two RBIs, while Quinn was 3-for-4 with a homer, walk and hit by pitch while driving in four. It was the first meeting between the two programs.