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| After a long week of home games, Illinois Wesleyan University traveled to Wheaton, Ill. to play the Thunder of Wheaton College Wednesday, April 17 in a College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin matchup. The Titans surpassed the Thunder in a 9-1 win bringing IWU's record to 20-9 and 9-3 in conference, while WC falls to 7-19 and 1-10 in the CCIW. Illinois Wesleyan athletics photo by Kodiak Creative |
Catholic left the yard four times, including twice in the eighth inning, in a 16-10 victory over No. 8 Johns Hopkins on Wednesday afternoon at Babb Field. With a win over No. 4 Salisbury last Wednesday, the Cardinals have now defeated a pair of program's ranked inside the D3baseball top 10 in a week's time. Tied 10-10 going into the eighth inning, Catholic needed a spark with the powerful lineup of Johns Hopkins posting 10 runs across the previous four innings. Graduate first baseman Zach Burton provided just that. With two on and one away in the inning, Burton lined the first pitch he saw over the fence in right-center field to put the Cardinals back ahead 13-10. After a walk, a pitching change, another walk, and a ground out, Sammy Burman added the final bit of insurance, smacking another three-run shot for the Cardinals. Burman's big fly put the Cardinals ahead by six with the ball in senior Danny Fitzgerald's hand. A traditional starter, Fitzgerald made another appearance out of the bullpen as he did against Salisbury last Wednesday. The senior right-hander tossed the final two innings, allowing a pair of hits, but inducing a double play in each inning to finish off the victory.
It was a dominant all-around showing for Guilford College, as they churned out 19 hits and 16 runs in support of a combined shutout effort, led by Jacob Phillips to secure an Old Dominion Athletic Conference victory over Averett University, 16-0, on Wednesday afternoon at Owen-Fulton Field. The win, their fourth straight and eighth in their last ten, lifts the Quakers to 17-18, 9-8 in ODAC play, and with an Eastern Mennonite University loss elsewhere in conference action, Guilford's magic number for a postseason berth is now down to three over one of EMU or Hampden-Sydney College. Averett, on the other hand, sees themselves swept by GC on the season, dropping to 8-23, 4-12 in league play. It was a career day for Phillips on the mound, fanning a career-high seven, shutting down the Cougars for 6.0 scoreless innings allowing just four hits and hit batsman to earn his first win of the season and improve to 1-1. Phillips along with Chase Stewart, and Jackson Marcellus finished allowing just six baserunners, none of them walks, facing just five men over the minimum on the mound. Cole McLain got the ball for the hosts and was solid until he encountered trouble in the fifth. He finished going 4.0-plus innings allowing six runs, five of them earned, on nine hits and two walks against a single strikeout, falling to 1-1.
Putting together a four-run first inning, North Central College never trailed in their 13-4 win over Carroll University, marking the eighth straight win over the Pioneers. Luke Lehnen led off the game with a double to right field, followed by back-to-back singles from John Michael Scumaci and Jackson Bland to score the first run of the game. With the bases loaded, Dave Fitzpatrick delivered a base clearing double, putting the Cardinals a 4-0. In the ninth, Kolby Fujii walked and Joe Hamilton was hit by a pitch. Lehnen loaded the bases with an infield single. Scumaci drew an RBI hit by pitch and Bland reached on a fielder's choice before Henry Saul plated Lehnen on a sacrifice fly to give North Central a 13-4 win as Anthony Raineri finished off Carroll in the bottom half of the ninth. Fitzpatrick drove in six runs while Lehnen led the team with four hits and three runs. Elijah Hammond earned his second win of the season by throwing 7.2 innings with five strikeouts and allowing four runs, three earned. Raineri kept the Pioneers off the scoreboard in his 2.1 innings on the mound.
No. 1 nationally ranked Endicott defeated Southern Maine, 8-4, on Wednesday afternoon at Ed Flaherty Field. Knotted at 1-1 in the third inning, Joey Frammartino gave the Gulls a 2-1 advantage with a solo shot to right center, his fourth of the season. However, the Huskies showed resilience, and the two teams exchanged runs in the following three frames. Trailing by a run in the top of the seventh, AJ Hamm stepped up to the plate and delivered a clutch go-ahead two-run double to hand the Gulls a 5-4 lead, which they held on to the rest of the way. The Blue and Green added some insurance in the eighth and ninth innings thanks to an RBI single from Elijah Moses, a TJ Liponis RBI groundout, and a Dylan Pacheco sac fly to left. The back end of the Gulls bullpen was a major decider in the contest. Scully earned his first win of the season with his solid inning and a third of relief, stranding two runners following his entrance in the sixth. He then handed the ball off to Walton, who earned his first career save with two scoreless innings of relief.
Coming down to their final at-bat, no. 4/5 East Texas Baptist University erupted for 10 runs in the top of the ninth inning earning a come-from-behind win over Hendrix College, 12-10, in a mid-week, regional game. ETBU is now 28-6 on the year and went 2-0 vs. Hendrix in mid-week games. Down five runs, 7-2, headed into the top of the ninth inning, ETBU posted seven hits with a double, a triple and a home run collecting 10 runs. Hendrix tried a comeback on their own with three runs in the bottom of the inning to make the final, 12-10. Five players had two hits as ETBU finished with 13. Dylan Burnaman, Nicolas Chavez, Brett Wagner, Michael Gallegos, and Nick Massarini all had two hits. Wagner and Chavez each had a home run. Chavez led the team with four RBI as Burnaman and Wagner added three RBI. Massarini had one RBI. Nine pitchers were used in the game as Brayden Hodges worked the eighth inning for the win which was his first of the year. The pitching staff had four strikeouts as Preston Crow, Tate Sloan, Hodges, and Robert Croft all had one strikeout. Hodges, Matthew Irwin, and Tate Sloan all worked one inning not allowing any runs or hits.
Plattsburgh State split a non-conference doubleheader against St. Lawrence on Wednesday afternoon, winning game one 10-9, before falling 9-0 in game two. The Cards came back from a six-run deficit to win game one, as Alex Kornblau tied the program record for career homers with his 11th career blast. kornblau finished the day 4-6 with two RBI, three runs scored, a stolen base, and two walks, while Austin Caldwell also had four hits with two doubles and a run scored. Eric Agan earned the win in game two, tossing a career-high 5.2 innings all in relief, also striking out a career-high eight batters. Jack Defayette had three hits and two runs scored in game one, also driving in the game-winning run in the top of the seventh.
Seniors Tanner Santos, classmate Brant Savage and first-year Dante D'Avanzo combined to drive in eight runs as Babson College defeated visiting Tufts University, 10-7, in non-conference action on Wednesday afternoon at Govoni Field. Santos went 3-for-4 with a triple, three RBI and three runs scored, D'Avanzo was 2-for-2 with two RBI and two runs scored, and Savage doubled and knocked in a pair of runs for the Beavers. Junior Justin Guest finished 2-for-3 with two walks, while senior Jack Julian singled and scored twice in the win. First-year AJ Lysko went 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBI, junior Henry Fleckner was 2-for-3 with two RBI and first-year Malachi Pena also drove in a pair of runs for the Jumbos. Senior Ozzie Fleischer singled twice and scored once in the loss.
Senior Riley Hasson collected three hits and scored three times in a 9-3 win for the JWU over Roger Williams University in non-conference action at the Scotts Miracle-Gro Athletic Complex. Junior Trevor Juan added a solo home run in the first for the Wildcats, who improved to 19-7 on the season. Senior EJ Leone, junior Xavier Botelho, and sophomore Jack Obert each registered an RBI single while freshman Cody Pfeifer drove in his first run of the season with a double in the eighth. The Wildcats scored twice in the first behind Juan's dinger and a sac fly off the bat of junior Owen Davis. They tacked on two more in the fourth on run-scoring singles from Leone and Botelho before the Hawks cut their deficit to 4-3 with one in the sixth and two in the seventh. JWU answered back with a five-spot in their half of the seventh, highlighted by Pfeifer's double and an infield single from Obert. Junior Ryan Schultz picked up his third win of 2024, allowing five hits and an unearned run in six innings of work. He walked three and struck out six.
Spalding hosted SLIAC games on Saturday. The Golden Eagles faced Mississippi University for Women and earned the sweep, winning 3-2 and 10-8 over the Owls, Their 12 SLIAC win in a row. Caden Krystofiak, with his impeccable pitching, held the game at a standstill until the bottom of the second, maintaining a score of 0-0. It was Matthew McDowell's powerful hit that broke the silence, scoring SU's first run of the game with a single through the right side. This brought Jacob Spanyer home, giving the Golden Eagles a 1-0 lead. McDowell continued his impressive day in the bottom of the sixth. He hammered a home run down the right-field line. This pushed Spalding over and gave SU the win, 3-2. McDowell continued his hot streak, singled, and scored an RBI in the bottom of the second and SU kept its momentum as it reached the bottom of the fourth for a 5-1 lead. The top of the seventh was a scoring inning for both squads. MUW grabbed two runs in the top of the seventh, making it 9-7. In the bottom of the seventh, Strong had an answer. He homered to left field to give SU a three-run cushion. The Owls needed some hope to catch back up as it reached the top of the ninth. MUW grabbed another run, but it wasn't enough as SU took the win, 10-8.
Freshman Jake Moore had three hits, including a triple and a double, along with an RBI, while sophomore Greer Farr added two hits and an RBI, to lead Hampden-Sydney College to a 7-2 Old Dominion Athletic Conference home win past Virginia Wesleyan University on Wednesday afternoon on Yank Bernier Field at the Ty Cobb Ballpark – Wurdeman Stadium. Sophomore Sterling Austin pitched his first collegiate complete game victory with a career-high six strikeouts on the mound for the host Tigers (12-17, 6-11) against the visiting Marlins (19-13, 10-7). The Garnet & Grey completed the season sweep against VWU (10-4, April 3 in Virginia Beach), and kept their conference tournament hopes alive, as well. H-SC scored seven runs on 12 hits with two errors, Scoring two runs in the first inning, one run each in the second and fifth innings, two runs in the seventh and one run in the eighth. VWU scored two runs on three hits with two errors, Scoring the two runs in the fifth inning.
No 22 Marymount kept it rolling on Wednesday night, beating RV Mary Washington 10-3 in front of their home crowd. With their 10th straight win, the Saints improve to 26-5 overall on the season ahead of a big conference set this coming weekend. After a scoreless top of the first, the Saints put up a run in the bottom frame with an RBI single from Ryan Cuadros, scoring Bobby Leitzel who singled earlier in the prior at-bat. After the Eagles plated three in the top of the second, Marymount answered with a four spot in the bottom half of the inning, highlighted by a bases-clearing double off the bat of Quincy Via. The score sat at 5-3 after two completed innings of work. Via knocked in another run in the bottom of the third to keep the Saints rolling. Marymount plated four more runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a big advantage, highlighted by an RBI knock off the bat of Chad Singleton. The Saints threw up zeroes the rest of the way to secure the national stage win. Gabriel Sebastino earned his first collegiate win on the mound, going 6.0 innings allowing no earned runs. Via led the way with five RBI, going 3-for-5 at the dish for the Saints with a double.
SUNY Cobleskill returned to action on Wednesday afternoon to sweep the visiting Kangaroos of SUNY Canton in North Atlantic Conference action by scores of 16-8 and 13-2 at Fighting Tiger Field. With the victories the Fighting Tigers move to 9-17 overall on the season including a 5-1 in conference action while the Kangaroos are now 1-22 overall with a 0-5 record versus league opponents. In the opener the Fighting Tigers outslugged the Kangaroos using a six-run fifth inning to extend a 7-to-6 lead to 13-6 to secure the win behind highlighted by a two-run homer by sophomore left fielder Logan Firment. The Cobleskill offense pounded out 21 hits in the vicotry led by junior second baseman Stephen Tejada, who went 5-for-6 with a double, two runs scored and an RBI, senior right fielder Samuel Gutierrez, who went 2-for-5 with a home run and three RBI and Logan Firment who went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles, a homer, three runs scored and two RBI. In the finale, the Fighting Tigers took advantage of a depleted Kangaroo pitching staff to post 13 runs in a rain shortened five inning contest on 10 hits with five going for extra bases. Right fielder Samuel Gutierrez led the Orange & Black going 3-for-3 with a pair of home runs, three runs scored and seven RBI while left fielder Logan Firment despite officially going 0-1 drove in three runs with three sacrifice flies.
Chatham was back in action today as they traveled to neutral site West Liberty University. There, the Cougars were the away team as they played the Bethany Bison. The Bison are unable to use their filed due to flooding so with an home event, the Bison will use nearby facilities the rest of the season. Chatham swept Bethany 11-5 and 13-2 (7 innings). In game one, the Cougars got majority of their runs in chunks. Junior Carter Beneigh improves to 4-3 on the season with the victory in game one. Beneigh went six solid innings, scattered seven hits, gave up two runs, and had five strikeouts. With one more win, Beneigh has the chance to tie former Cougar Austin Andonisio for most wins in a single season in program history (5). In game two, the Cougars again got an early lead and never looked back. Sophomore Nick Martin returned from injury as he threw five great innings. Martin gave up four hits, two runs (0 earned), six walks and six strikeouts. Freshman Gianni Cantini threw the final two innings. Cantini did not allow a hit, walked two and had three strikeouts. Chatham added 12 more hits in game two. This time, four Cougars had at least two hits. Benny Dottle (3-5, 3 RBI), Jake Bredl (2-5), Brandon Bell (2-4), and Tyler Cote (2-3, 2 RBI).
Senior Grayson Bush had four hits and junior Sam Slevin recorded his seventh save as 20th-ranked Randolph-Macon held on for a 6-3 ODAC win over Lynchburg on Wednesday afternoon. The Yellow Jackets started the scoring in the bottom of the first. Freshman Jon Quici drew a leadoff walk, went to second on a one-out single by senior Myles Webb and came home on a base hit by junior Chaz Harvey to give the home team a 1-0 lead. RMC added to its lead in the second. Senior Matt Myers had a leadoff homer to left to push the advantage to 2-0. It was his first long ball of the season. Bush followed with a double. Sophomore Jordan Hill singled to move Bush to third and took second on the throw. Sophomore Carter Schmitt singled to knock in Bush and Hill, making it a 4-0 contest. The Yellow Jackets put up another crooked number in the fourth. Schmitt singled to left and went to third on a double by Webb. With two away, freshman Zach Wernoski singled to drive in both runners to make it 6-0. The Hornets tallied two in the sixth and one in the eighth but fell 6-3.
Wittenberg swept a doubleheader at Wabash in North Coast Athletic Conference play on Wednesday, extending its current win streak to eight games. The Tigers used a ninth-inning rally for a 7-6 win in Game 1 and cruised to a 9-1 victory in Game 2. In the ninth inning of game one, freshman Thatcher Dietz was hit by a pitch to lead off the top of the ninth, and back-to-back singles from Luke Thomas and Rocco Royer loaded the bases. A wild pitch advanced the runners to second and third, and Xander Rodriguez brought them both home on what proved to be the game-winning single to right-center field. The Tigers got on the scoreboard early and often in game two. Wittenberg out-hit Wabash by a 10-5 margin and committed no errors to the Little Giants' two. "Comeback city in Game 1, and then an absolute gem thrown by Horoszko in Game 2! That makes eight wins in a row! This team is fun to coach," said head coach Brian McGee. "They are soldiers with a lot of toughness. They love a good challenge and love to compete. Eickhoff and Horoszko both had fabulous starts, and Charlie Schafer did what he does. And our hitters hit well!"
The Colby College Mules (21-5) defeated the Husson University Eagles (8-8) by a score of 15-5 in their Wednesday afternoon matchup in sunny Waterville, Maine. The Mules remain atop NESCAC and responded well to their Sunday loss to #1 Endicott. Noah Reichman was the star of the game, hitting three home runs. In the second inning, Rechman homered, scoring Brady O'Brien and Cole Palmeri. Another Reichman homer occurred in the third inning, this time driving in just O'Brien. In the fourth inning, Marcus Forrester tripled to right field. Clint Flippo scored on the play. Reichman's third homer of the day was a solo shot in the seventh inning. A Colby pitching staff of Michael Ciaccio, Charles Collins, Kyle Bourque, Elliott Seymour, and Adam Schwartz struck out eight batters. Ciaccio picked up the win.
Neumann University defeated Rosemont College 5-4 in 10 innings on Wednesday evening. Matt Mason led off the game with a single and came around to score on a sacrifice fly by Anthony Rakotz for a 1-0 lead. Neumann added a run in the second as Nick Glebocki reached on a fielders choice, stole second and third, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Owen Friddell. In the third, Tyler Kilmer singled and came around to score on a wild pitch. Ratotz scored on an RBI groundout by Thomas Elgrim in the fifth for a 4-0 lead. The Ravens got two runs back in the home half of the fifth. Another in the seventh and tied the game in the bottom of the eighth. Andrew Curran led off the top of the 10th with a single. Thomas Carroll came in to pinch-run. Elgrim hit a sacrifice bunt to move Carroll to second. Zion Spearman batted with two-runners on base and hit a single to score Carroll and put the Knights up 5-4. The Ravens went down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the 10th. Zach Mullins started the game and went 6.2 innings. He allowed three runs on six hits and struck out five. Jack Valentine went 3.1 innings for the win, allowing one run and striking out two.
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| North Park held on tight during a windy ballgame in Chicago against Elmhurst University on Wednesday afternoon, securing a rocky but important 11-6 victory over the Bluejays. Alma athletics photo |
Sophomore Adam Vartanian came through with a walk-off single into left field on Wednesday evening, pushing Mitchell College past Keene State College 8-7 in non-conference action at Alumni Field. The Mariners entered the bottom of the ninth trailing 7-6, and after the game tying run scored on a Keene State error, Vartanian stepped to the plate with runners on the corners and delivered, sending the Mariners to their fourth consecutive win. Vartanian finished the game 4-4 with a pair of RBI and a run scored. Senior Cole Lalli collected three hits for the third time in the past four games, while fellow senior Owen Robbins went 2-2 with two doubles and two RBI, and sophomore Thai-ler Sestokas had two hits and scored three runs.
SUNY New Paltz returned home Wednesday on Loren Campbell Memorial Field taking on winless Lehman College for the first time in seven years. The Hawks (16-10) looked to make it three in a row after taking the series Sunday against Oneonta. With strong pitching from Shane Linett and a grand slam from Wallace Kirkpatrick, the Hawks cruised to a 16-1 win in seven innings. On Wednesday, SUNY New Paltz ran out a secondary lineup, as most of the regulars had the day off. "This whole year, our mindset has been to never take any team lightly," Wallace Kirkpatrick said. "I think we struck out five times the first time through the lineup, which didn't work but we made adjustments halfway through and then started hitting balls hard, finding gaps and that's what we do."
Skidmore College scored 13 runs in the first four innings on the way to a 14-7 non-league win on the road at MCLA Wednesday night. Skidmore had 13 hits from nine different players including two each from Trey Bourque, Zachary Leiderman, Mac Cady, and Sam Kornet. Four Skidmore pitchers combined to allow just one run on two hits over the first six innings.
Linfield won its sixth straight game in an 11-2 victory over George Fox on Wednesday afternoon at the Curtis and Margaret Morse Athletic Fields. The Wildcats' bats continue to be red-hot after surpassing double-digit hits for the fifth straight game after totaling 13 hits on the day. Offensively, Trent Wainfeld, Matthew Lewis and Nick Holm each mashed a home run. Wainfeld and Elijah Maris led the team in hits with three each while Holm posted a game-high three RBIs. In a bullpen effort for the 'Cats that saw nine different pitchers touch the rubber, Matthew Tacheny (1-0) was credited with the win. Noah Meffert led the George Fox offense with three hits. Jared Miller and Meffert accounted for the only two Bruins RBIs. Jack Galanida (0-2) was tagged with the loss. George Fox (18-15) left 11 runners stranded on base.
Washington & Jefferson College earned a doubleheader split Wednesday afternoon with the visiting Point Park Pioneers, losing 12-6 in game one and winning 10-7 in the nightcap. The Presidents and Pioneers battled through two seven-inning games at Ross Memorial Park. W&J would get a lead early in game one but lost it for good in the fourth. In the nightcap, the early innings proved key again as the Presidents put up five runs in the bottom of the third to take the lead for good. W&J tacked on two important insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth. Despite a three run rally by the Point Park in the final frame of the game, a strikeout by Ethan Boring would end the game as W&J secured the 10-7 victory.
Playing its first game since moving back into the national rankings, No. 21 Buena Vista University extended its current overall win streak to six games after defeating visiting Nebraska Wesleyan, 6-2, on Wednesday night in a game that was pushed back one day due to inclement weather. The Prairie Wolves struck first and led 1-0 after an RBI single in the fourth from Carter Betts plated an unearned run. BVU didn't trail for long as it responded right back in the bottom half of the inning with two runs of its own. Fifth-year senior Grant Oseka tied things up by lifting a sacrifice fly into right field that scored fellow fifth-year senior Zack Beekmann from third and moved fifth-year senior Calvin Harris up to third. The sac fly was the team's 20th of the season which is tied for third-most in the program's single-season history. Betts added his second RBI single of the night for NWU in the eighth inning after a leadoff walk to make it 6-2, but the Prairie Wolves were never able to threaten most of the night against what turned out to be a strong BVU bullpen. The Beavers used a pitcher-by-committee in the game which totaled seven different hurlers. Sophomore Logan Lape-Brinkman, who was the fourth pitcher used by BVU, picked up the win and moves to 2-0. He scattered three hits and struck out a pair of batters in his 1.2 innings. Freshman Drew Camman followed with a team-high 2.0 innings of work, allowed one hit and also fanned two. Jake Eddie and Mark Eddie pitched the eighth and ninth innings, respectively, to help close the door and send BVU to its 13th win in its last 15 games overall.
A bases-clearing, 2-out, bases-loaded double from Ben Shumansky and a 14-hit attack in Game 2 catapulted Concordia to a 3-1, 11-1 (7 innings) sweep over Carleton in a key MIAC match-up between the two teams. The Cobber and Knights entered the day deadlocked in fifth place in the MIAC standings with identical 5-5 records. With the sweep, Concordia grabs sole possession of fifth place and only a game out of fourth place – the final spot in the conference playoffs. CC is now 10-16 overall and has won six of its past eight games, with sweeps over Hamline, Macalester and Carleton. It was a battle of the two starting pitchers in the opener. Both hurlers went the distance and both pitchers only gave up runs in a single inning. Cobber starter Jacoby Nold allowed a single unearned run in the first frame then retired 15 of the next 18 batters he faced in the final 6.0 innings to pick up his second win of the year. He didn't allow a runner to get past first base after the first frame as he allowed only three hits, no walks and struck out five. Carleton starter Ananth Iyer was cruising along until the fifth inning. He only conceded one hit through the first four innings and had retired nine of the 10 batters he faced heading into the fifth frame. Concordia never trailed in the second game as they put up crooked numbers in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to come away with the 11-1 win which ended after seven innings because of the 10-run rule.
Fifth-ranked Salisbury University used a trio of home runs and three other extra-base hits to win a wild one over the Stevenson Mustangs, taking a 12-7 margin for its fourth straight victory on Wednesday afternoon at Donnie Williams Sea Gull Baseball Stadium. Danny Sheeler belted two home runs, finishing 3-for-5 with three runs and three RBIs. Sheeler now has two multi-homer games in his Sea Gull career after going yard twice against Cortland on Feb. 19, 2023. Tim Petrucelli homered for the second straight game for his team-leading eighth big fly of the season, going 3-for-3 with a double, dinger, two RBIs, and three runs scored. Aiden Hankins made his first career start and lasted three innings, giving up one run on one hit with one walk and one strikeout. The Sea Gull bats have now scored in double digits in each of its four straight wins dating back to Saturday, averaging 15 runs per game over the streak.
Behind a sterling outing from Christian Lubic on the mound and plenty of offense, Penn State Harrisburg rolled to a convincing 20-0 non-conference shutout victory over Lebanon Valley on Wednesday afternoon. Lubic turned in his best start of the season, throwing seven scoreless innings, allowing just three hits, and tallying nine strikeouts to earn the win. Brendan Henn led the way at the plate, finishing a double shy of the cycle with a home run, a triple, four RBI, and three runs scored. Reigning United East Volt Division Player of the Week Carlos Irizarry doubled, drove in three runs, and scored two more. Henn set the tone by leading off the bottom of the first with a solo blast over the fence in left field. A pair of bases-loaded walks drove in two more in the bottom of the seventh to put the exclamation point on the scoring and Riley Blatt and Roberto Barron each threw a scoreless inning of relief to seal the decisive win.