....and good hitting beats good pitching

Franklin let their bats do the talking all afternoon on Saturday, with the offense going off in a double-header sweep of Earlham. Franklin (16-13, 7-9 HCAC) punished Earlham (12-16, 4-10 HCAC) pitching for 32 runs and 27 hits, dominating both contests and winning each in seven innings by scores of 14-2 and 18-1.
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No. 2 Denison University scored 22 runs on 23 hits in just seven innings in a 22-0 win game one and the finished with 10 runs on 17 hits in a 10-3 win in game two as the Big Red swept Hiram College during Senior Day on Saturday. In the opener, Denison scored 11 runs on nine hits in the third inning as the Big Red sent 15 batters to the plate to contol the opener. In game two, Denison built a 6-0 in the fifth inning and cruised to the sweep.

Freshman Jake Moore had five hits and two RBIs in game one, while senior Julian Franks-Pollock, along with sophomores Greer Farr and Jack Wilson, each had three RBIs in game two, to lead Hampden-Sydney College to a sweep of an Old Dominion Athletic Conference doubleheader on the road at Averett University on Saturday afternoon in Danville. Sophomore Jacob Miller-Bopp gained the pitching victory in the 16-4 win in the opener, while classmate Jake Williams earned the mound triumph in the 17-6 win in the nightcap for the visiting Tigers (14-17, 8-11) against the host Cougars (8-25, 4-14). The Garnet & Grey posted season-highs of 17 runs and 16 RBIs in nightcap, and tied their season-high with 17 hits in opener, while keeping their conference tournament hopes alive, as well.

Penn State Behrend split an Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference doubleheader at Penn State Altoona Saturday afternoon. Behrend won game two 24-6 and dropped game one 9-2. Behrend got on the board first in game one on an RBI double from Daniel Boehme. Altoona responded with three runs in the bottom of the first and added six runs in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings, highlighted by a trio of RBI doubles from Jake Hillard, Tyreke Green, and Corey Chamberlain to cap off its game one victory. it was a different story as Behrend hit six home runs to help them take game two from Altoona. Daniel Boehme and Hank Shaffer each tallied three hits for Behrend at the plate. Shaffer recorded a game-high six RBIs, followed by Gibson's five runs batted in. Reliever Jake Manendo tossed 4.1 innings to earn his fourth win of the season, surrendering only one run on three hits and striking out a career-high 10 batters.

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Swiftly and forcefully, Hope College took care of business on a bright but chilly spring afternoon at Boeve Baseball Stadium. The MIAA-leading Flying Dutchmen erupted for 30 runs in 14 innings on Saturday to sweep a doubleheader from Albion College and secure a fifth league-series victory in as many tries this season. Battling a strong northwest wind and temperatures hovering in the high-30s, Hope toppled the Britons, 15-2 and 15-5, in a pair of games shortened to seven innings apiece because of the 10-run rule. The Flying Dutchmen avenged a 13-8 loss in the series opener at Albion and reclaimed sole possession of first place in the MIAA standings. With a 12-3 league record, Hope is one game ahead in the loss column of both Adrian College and Kalamazoo College. Adrian is 10-4 in league play after splitting with Calvin University on Saturday. Kalamazoo is 9-4 in the MIAA heading into a doubleheader against Trine University on Sunday, April 21.

Misericordia University took both ends of a doubleheader at DeSales to finish off a sweep of the Bulldogs, 15-1, 22-10. Brock Bollinger, Connor Maryniak and Jason Sanfilippo all had two hits and two RBI in the opener. Steve Rinda worked six innings to earn the game one win. Maryniak homered twice and drove in in eight runs in the nightcap and Joe Comins homered and drove in three runs. Maryniak struck out 10 over six innings to get the win in game two.

Backed by strong pitching and hot bats, Union College swept Bard College in a doubleheader to win the season series against the Raptors on Saturday afternoon at Central Park A Diamond. Union won game one 23-5 in seven innings and game two 8-3. Sophomore Caleb Miller extended his hit streak to 16 consecutive games. Union extended their win streak to eight games. A nine-run first inning was the difference maker in the opening game of the doubleheader with the Raptors. Every batter in the starting lineup recorded at least one hit, with sophomore Liam McIlroy leading the way with four hits to come a double short of the cycle. McIlroy went 4-for-5 with seven RBIs and four runs scored for his fourth consecutive game with a homerun. Sophomore Caleb Miller also had a strong day at the plate with two homeruns, four RBIs, and three runs scored. Four Union batters recorded two hits in the rubber match as Union's offense carried over from the first game of the twinbill. Sam Strazza led the way with a double and a home run.
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No. 18 Montclair State University split a doubleheader with Rutgers-Newark that featured a combined 62 runs on Saturday afternoon. The Red Hawks (26-9, 8-6 NJAC) fell 12-10 in the opener before taking game two 22-18. In the opener, Rutgers-Newark responded with three runs in the bottom of the fifth to reclaim the advantage, but a throwing error in the following stanza allowed the Red Hawks to even the score at nine. The Scarlet Raiders retook the lead in the bottom of the eighth with three tallies, and were able to claim the first game despite Montclair threatening in the ninth. With a runner on base in the bottom of the eighth in game two, Rutgers-Newark used a double to drive in the game-tying run. The Red Hawks put together another strong offensive inning in the ninth, starting with Reece Malek coming home on a wild pitch. After Ryan McKenna walked to put runners on first and second, Michael Murphy tripled to right center to clear the bases, and Matt Kaliske hit a sacrifice fly to make the score 22-18. Tyler Cirone set down the Scarlet Raiders in order to seal the victory. The 22 runs in game two marked a new season-high for Montclair, surpassing the previous mark of 17 against Trinity on March 16. The Red Hawks have tallied double-digit run totals 14 times this season, including their last three games, matching their total of double-digit run contests from the 2023 season.

Waynesburg University vaulted into second place in the Presidents' Athletic Conference standings with a sweep of Allegheny at the Waynesburg University Baseball & Softball Complex on Saturday afternoon. Alec Engelmore crushed a go-ahead home run in the eighth to support Dalton Lucy's complete game victory in a 5-2 win in game one. Lucy picked up the complete game win for his sixth victory of the season. He allowed two earned runs on eight hits over nine innings. An eight-run third inning powered the Jackets to a 12-5 victory in game two. Gavin Pratt finished went nine innings for a complete game win. He allowed five earned runs on nine hits and struck out four. Waynesburg moves to 20-13 on the year and 13-4 in PAC play. Allegheny falls to 19-9, 10-4 PAC.

UW-Whitewater split games against UW-La Crosse in a battle between two top-10 teams. The Warhawks fell in game 1, 6-1, but a huge eighth inning on offense closed the game out in 8 innings, with the Warhawks winning 23-1. In the first game, UW-La Crosse went up 2-0 after the third inning, but a Andy Thies solo home run closed the deficit to just one run. The Eagles picked the run back up with their own solo home run and ran the score to 6-1. with a 3-run home run in the bottom of the eighth that would go on to seal the first game in favor of the Eagles, 6-1. The Warhawks regained some of the momentum in the second game, going up 4-0 in the third inning. Later on it was the Warhawks up 6-1. Heading into the 8th, the Warhawks went on a hitting run, scoring a total of 17 runs on 10 hits to lock up the win and a split with UW0-La Crosse. Jack Hagen picked up the win in the second game, going 7 innings only allowing 2 hits and striking out five batters.

Elizabethtown took two from visiting Wilkes in Landmark Conference play, Saturday winning 8-0, 13-9. Elizabethtown posted an 8-0 shutout in game one against Wilkes on senior day. Joey Smith earned the win on the mound, pitching six innings while recording three strikeouts. The second game between Etown and Wilkes was a different story, Wilkes started off the scoring with two runs in the first. Etown then held a 6-2 lead through the third until the Colonels bats got hot to tie up the game, 9-9 in the eighth. In the eighth, Elizabethtown singled, advanced on a sacrifice bunt and then walked to load two on the bases. A hit by pitch loaded the bases with three before Woolwine would hit a grand slam to left field; securing the Blue Jays, 13-9 win. Zach Silfies earned the win on the mound as he struck out the final three in the ninth for his third win of the season.

Roanoke College took both ends of an Old Dominion Athletic Conference doubleheader Saturday against Virginia Wesleyan University, 9-7 and 5-4 in a doubleheader the Maroons' hosted in Calfee Park in Pulaski. Isaac Brooks earned saves in each end of the twinbill. The Marlins took a 2-0 lead into the fifth inning before the Roanoke offense came to life. down four runs, the Maroons plated five in the eighth. After a Corey Coogan single, an error and a sacrifice fly each scored single runs, Hayden Giordano put Roanoke ahead 8-7 with a double. Cayden Freels singled to bring home Giordano and end the scoring. The Marlins opened with two runs again only to see RC build a 5-2 lead after six. Virginia Wesleyan scored two in the top of the ninth and had two on with two out but Brooks got out of the jam to complete the sweep.

No. 3 nationally ranked Baldwin Wallace University clinched a share of the Ohio Athletic Conference regular season title as it sweeped Otterbein University in a doubleheader by scores of 7-3 and 11-4 at Fisher Field. BW (28-4, 13-1 OAC) clinches a share of the OAC regular season title for the second year in a row after a doubleheader battle between the top two teams in the conference. The Yellow Jackets played from behind early in the first game thanks to an Otterbein (23-10, 9-5 OAC) homer in the first. After trading a few early leads, the Brown and Gold were able to seal the victory by holding the Cardinals scoreless in the last seven innings. The Yellow Jackets owned Game 2 from the jump after combining for ten runs on 13 hits in the first four innings followed by a strong team performance on the defensive end. BW can clinch the OAC regular season title outright and earn the right to host the conference tournament for the second year in a row with a win in next week's doubleheader against Capital University.

Case Western Reserve University graduate student first baseman Dane Camphausen homered in each game of a doubleheader on Saturday to set the program's single-season home run record and help lead the 17th-ranked Spartans to a sweep of a doubleheader against New York University on Saturday in Staten Island, New York. CWRU won the first game 12-7 before claiming a 3-1 victory in the second game. CWRU improved to 26-8 overall with the two wins, including a 9-2 mark in University Athletic Association play. NYU dropped to 21-11 overall with an 8-7 conference mark. Camphausen hit solo home runs in the second inning of each game to tie and then set the program's single-season home run record. With 12 home runs for the campaign, Camphausen passed the previous record of 11 home runs in a season, set first by Rocco Maue in 2018 and matched by current junior right fielder Nick Harms last year. Camphausen went five-for-eight with four runs, three RBIs, two doubles, and two home runs over the two games on Saturday and is now batting a team-high .387 with 47 RBIs this season.

SUNY New Paltz continued its three game SUNYAC series Saturday, with a doubleheader against Brockport on Clark V. Whited Field and earned its first series win over the Golden Eagles since 2018. The Hawks (18-10 overall) looked to make it five in a row after taking the first game of the series Friday. Brockport wanted to put an end to the winning streak, and picked up the win in Game 1, 5-1. SUNY New Paltz dusted itself off with fantastic pitching, backed by a seven-inning no-hit bid by sophomore Robert Gregory while coupled by superb hitting by the Hawks, leading to a 10-1 Game 2 win.

Graduate student right-hander Hunter Ralston tossed a complete game in game one and senior John Zarnowski hit a go-ahead three-run blast in the eighth inning of game two to lead The University of Scranton (21-7, 12-5 Landmark) to a doubleheader sweep of the Juniata Eagles (9-20, 4-16 Landmark) on Saturday at Langdon-Goodale Field in Huntingdon. The Royals took game one by a score of 10-1 and then rallied for an 8-4 victory in game two. Ralston became the second Royals' pitcher in the last 11 days to throw a nine-inning complete game as the visitors cruised to the 10-1 victory. Zarnowski hit a go-ahead three-run blast with two outs in the eighth to break a four-all tie and the Royals finished the doubleheader sweep with an 8-4 victory.

Marietta College moved into a tie for second place in the Ohio Athletic Conference standings with a doubleheader sweep of John Carroll University Saturday afternoon. The Pioneers posted scores of 3-0 and 13-5 improving to 17-14 overall and 9-5 in the OAC. John Carroll falls to 11-19 overall and 5-9 in the OAC. Marietta scored two runs in the first inning of game one. Nick Bonnizzio led off with an infield single. Following two straight outs, Ben Kaplin singled up the middle moving Bonnizzio to third. RBI singles from Jeremy Tonelli and Diego DeCello followed. Those two runs were all that the Pioneers would need as pitchers Jacoby Rocky and Gabe Torres combined to shutout the Blue Streaks. Rocky (3-1) made his first start of the season and struck out 12 JCU hitters in 6.0 of work. He allowed six hits and did not walk a batter. Torres recorded his second save of the season with 3.0 inning of two-hit relief. Torres struck out five.

Gettysburg rallied from a 5-3 deficit late in game one to win on a walkoff 6-5 before plating eight runs in the bottom of the eighth in game two to complete the sweep of Washington (Md.), 13-11. Jack Pistner led the Bullets with six hits, five RBIs and five runs scored in the doubleheader. His day included a home run, double and two triples. Alexey Stout Had a three-hit opener while Adam Hicks rapped out three hits in the nightcap. Drew Kinsey led the Shoremen with four hits, two RBIs and three runs scored on the afternoon. Stout led off the ninth with a double before a Robeert Murphy single put runner at the corners. An Emmanuel Ajewole pinch-hit single up the middle scored Stout to tie the game. After a sacrifice bunt, an intentional walk to Preziuso loaded the bases for Jack Burke, who drew a five-pitch walk against a five-man infield to win the game. In game two, a fielding error allowed Stout to reach in the bottom of the frame and started an inning that saw 12 Bullets come to the plate. Hicks then came up with a high chopper through the left side to score Neels and Stout for a 13-11 lead and the comeback win.

Junior hurler Brenden O'Neil pitched a complete game in
game one earning the win, while a six-run sixth inning in
game two led to a comeback win and a series sweep, 4-1
and 10-9, for St. Lawrence University over RIT on Saturday.
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Kean University extended their win streak to 10 games with a sweep of host The College of New Jersey on Saturday afternoon in NJAC action. The Cougars (24-11, 10-4 NJAC) won the power struggle as both teams combined for 31 hits in the opener. Kean pushed out to a 7-0 lead after the first two innings. The Cougars got RBI singles from Justin Teixeira (twice), and Gianni Marano while Phil Marcantonio collected a two RBI single. The Lions (18-13, 6-8 NJAC) scratched across two in the bottom of the third and pulled within one with a four spot in the bottom of the sixth. The game was all tied up as TCNJ added one more in the seventh. Marcantonio put Kean back in the lead in the top of the ninth with a solo blast, but the Lions answered in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extras. IN the decisive final inning, Dan Reistle was hit to start the inning. Teixeira doubled to push across the go ahead run. Gianni Marano added insurance with a sac fly. Noah Rivera closed the door in the bottom of the ninth with a 1-2-3 inning.

Suffolk jumped out to an early lead and never looked back to run-rule Wentworth, 12-2, in seven innings in game one of a Commonwealth Coast Conference doubleheader Saturday afternoon at East Boston Memorial Park. Suffolk started out strong with a three-run first frame. The Rams one-upped their offensive output in their second trip to the plat and Jonny Gilbride's first hit of the day plated Jack Mihalchik to extend the edge to 8-0. Wentworth eliminated the shutout with one run in the top of the fourth. The Leopards used three base hits to get on the board and trim Suffolk's advantage to 8-1. Wentworth made a change on the mound as Brady Aubuchon came in to shove. The reliever got the first out quickly, but he was no match for Gilbride as Suffolk's shortstop sent a jack to left to send Suffolk to the mercy-rule decision. An early advantage helped Suffolk take down Wentworth, 7-3, in the nightcap of a Commonwealth Coast Conference twinbill Saturday afternoon at East Boston Memorial Park.

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After honoring the father of the program before the game, fifth-ranked Salisbury University kept the celebration going through the final out, corralling a 5-4 win over the Mary Washington Eagles in Saturday's Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference action at Donnie Williams Sea Gull Baseball Stadium. Tim Petrucelli went yard for the third straight game, finishing 2-for-4 with his ninth home run, plus a double, RBI, and two runs scored. Ethan Hirschfeld made his longest start of the season to win it for the Sea Gulls, allowing two runs (one earned) on two hits in five-plus innings of work. Hirschfeld walked two and punched out three. Garrett Beaver earned his third save of the year by securing the final two outs of the ninth. Cole Williams acted as the bridge between Hirschfeld and Beaver, tossing 3.1 innings of two-run ball in relief. Before the game, the Sea Gulls paid tribute to the late Deane Deshon, who founded the SU baseball program and served as its head coach for 34 years, winning 553 games. A monument to Deshon was unveiled in the courtyard of Donnie Williams Stadium earlier in the day, and Deshon's grandson Jordan threw out the ceremonial first pitch.

Late-inning offense proved to be both the hero and the anti-hero for U.S. Merchant Marine Academy as the Mariners split a two-game set with Maritime on Saturday at Reinhart Field in Throggs Neck. USMMA won the first contest by a 7-4 score before dropping a 7-5 decision to the Privateers in the proverbial nightcap on a walk-off home run. Following the split series, the Mariners boast a record of 18-10 overall and 9-1 in Skyline Conference play. Maritime, meanwhile, is now 20-8 on the season with a 9-3 mark in league competitions.

William Paterson (7-22, 2-8 NJAC) earned a series split with No. 20 Rowan (20-10, 7-7 NJAC) April 20 in a New Jersey Athletic Conference doubleheader at Jeff Albies Field. The Pioneers took game one, 4-2, before falling in game two to the Profs, 8-7. William Paterson loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the second when senior Jake Lutz came through with a two-RBI single through the left side to put the Pioneers ahead, 2-0. The Profs cut the deficit in half with an RBI triple in the third inning, but the Pioneers responded in the bottom half of frame with a solo home run to center by junior RJ Mehnert to go back up by two (3-1). William Paterson had two runners in scoring position in the sixth after junior Christian Hay was hit by a pitch and senior Noah Cabassa hit a ground-rule double to right. Junior Tom Radigan drove in Hay with an RBI single to center to push the WP advantage to three (4-1). The Profs plated a run in the eighth, but that would be as close as they would get as junior Neel Telidevara closed out the final two frames for his first save of the season.

Plattsburgh State took both ends of their doubleheader on Saturday against Oneonta, winning 8-7 in extras and 10-1 in the nightcap to pick up a State University of New York Athletic Conference series win. Andrew Veit was the hero in game one, with a walk-off single and then threw eight strong in game two for the win, while Nick Goldberg ossed six innings of excellent relief to earn the game one win. Goldberg gave the Cardinals a huge lift with his outing out of the bullpen in game one, as he gave up just three hits over six innings, allowing one run, and striking out four. Veit was equally excellent, starting the series rubber match and tossing eight innings of one-run ball striking out six for his fourth win of the year. The graduate student ranks third in the conference as he lowered his ERA to 2.89 on the season.

Adrian College competed in the series finale doubleheader with Calvin University at home on Saturday afternoon. The Bulldogs fell in game one of the doubleheader in 11 innings by a 3-2 score. Adrian rallies in game two of the doubleheader and wins 11-1 in seven innings. Adrian struggled at the plate in game one and it too extra innings to decide a winner in game one where Calvin came away with the 3-2 win in the eleventh inning. In the fourth inning of the nightcap, Adrian loaded the bases and scored a pair on back-to-back hit batters. With the bases still loaded, Ronaldo Jimenez cleared the bases with a triple to left field and later scored on a wild pitch to lead 7-1. Later in the fourth inning, Kedrow doubled in another run followed by an RBI groundout from Jaxon McGuigan and a run scoring on an error to lead 10-1 and cap off a nine-run inning. Jaxon Clark got the start for game two for Adrian where he allowed one run in 7 innings pitched while striking out nine. Ian Doyle took the loss for Calvin.

Keuka College team defeated Alfred University 12-7 in an Empire 8 Conference game at Houghton University. In a game that had an 8 p.m. first pitch, Keuka College (4-21, 3-7 Empire 8) got a school-record seven RBIs from Carlos Fantauzzi. Alex Evans added four runs batted in, three coming on a three-run home run.

A wild comeback that featured a walk-off win followed by a lopsided rubber-game win highlighted a come-from-behind series victory for Oglethorpe over Rhodes Saturday afternoon to conclude a three-game Southern Athletic Association set. Oglethorpe dropped Friday's game 11-4 but bounced back to sweep Saturday's doubleheader on senior day with 6-5 and 16-8 victories. Senior Colby James produced one of the top highlights of the day with a complete game in Saturday's opener, picking up the win when senior Matt Huckabee completed Oglethorpe's three-run comeback with a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth. This opened the flood gates in game two as the Petrels ran away with the rubber game with 14 hits and 16 runs.

Keystone squared off against Saint Elizabeth University in a doubleheader on Saturday, and are coming out of these games with two more wins in the win column. After a quiet first game, the Giants' offense came to life in game two. David Curreri and Justin Mann picked up Keystone's only two hits in game one against the Eagles. Mann's single to left field in the second inning brought home Jacob Yager for the Giants first run. Later in the game, Greg Verano scored on a wild pitch which gave Keystone the lead and ultimately the win. On the mound, Brayan Villar picked up his fifth win of the season along with his second complete game of the season. In seven innings, Villar struck out five batters and gave up one earned run. Darren Hagan gave the team three RBI in game two today as he picked up four hits in four at-bats. Hagan's RBIs were all picked up across two doubles and a home run. Josh Parks also picked up two hits in this game, including a two-run home run over the right field wall in the bottom of the fourth inning. Drew Sorrentino picked up his second win on the mound this season after striking out six batters and giving up zero earned runs in 4.2 innings pitched. Seniors Julian Gonzalez, Nick Termini, and Justice Ramirez all had a turn on the mound in this game after Sorrentino was relieved.

New Jersey City University hosted its final New Jersey Athletic Conference home doubleheader of the season today, April 20, against Stockton University. The Gothic Knights fell in the first game, 11-1, but came back to win the second, 6-5, and split the series to snap the Ospreys' five-game win streak. Stockton entered the day atop of the NJAC standings, and game two's victory is the second this week in which NJCU has split against teams in the top half of the standings, including Thursday's win at #17/18 Montclair State University.

Sophomore Richard Tremble's second inning home run provided all of the offense the Hobart pitching staff needed this afternoon. Sophomore Teck Nash, sophomore Max Friedlander and junior Nicholas Franceschi combined to shut out Clarkson in a 3-0 Liberty League West win for the Statesmen. With first-year Connor Schmiedlin on base, Tremble, who missed all of last season due to injury, hit his first collegiate home run in just his sixth career at bat, giving Hobart an early 2-0 lead. Both teams endured a lengthy rain delay, but when play resumed, Nash kept the Golden Knights' hitters off balance. He scattered six hits across seven innings, striking out six while walking only two. It matched the longest outing of his career. Nash was at his best in even numbered innings, retiring the side in order in the second, fourth and sixth. Friedlander took over in the eighth, allowing a pair of one-out hits, but sat down the next two Knights with a strikeout and a ground out to work out of trouble. Similarly, Franceschi worked into and out of trouble in the ninth. A line out and strikeout put him one out away from his second save of the season, but Clarkson extended the drama with an infield hit and a walk, but Franceschi got a pop up to second to finish off the win.