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| Powered by strong pitching and late-game heroics, Averett University baseball opened up the 2025 season with a sweep of the visiting Brevard College Tornados, 6-1 and 6-5, at Owen-Fulton Field. Averett athletics photo |
No. 8 Pomona-Pitzer opened their season with a doubleheader win over No. 10 East Texas Baptist by the scores of 5-3 and 16-5 on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Field. A rematch of last year's NCAA Super Regional to start the year with a top-10 match up in Division III went the way of Pomona-Pitzer who won the series with a doubleheader win at home against the Tigers. Pomona-Pitxer has a six game win streak over the Tigers. In game one, the Sagehens were led by JC Ng, Greg Perantoni, and Jack Gold who each went 2-3 in the win. in the nighcap, Cooper Berry who had a monster game going 4-5 with two home runs and five RBIs.
McMurry picked up their second win of the season as they move to 2-0 to start the year. The War Hawks offense exploded for 23 runs in 8 innings as they defeated Rhodes, who is ranker #24 by D3baseball.com by a score of 23-8. Rhodes scored the first run of the contest before McMurry put up 9 in the second inning. Rhodes answered to cut the lead to 9-5 after 2, but McMurry would plate across another 9-spot inning in the 4th. The game was wide open at that point as the War Hawks led 18-5 after 4 innings of play. McMurry would score 5 more in the 5th to get them to 23 runs. The game was called after 7 innings due to the run rule. The War Hawks got 4 RBI from Blake Beach, & 3 RBI from Koy Carpenter, Riley Hood & Scout Smith. Gabriel Aragon got the win on the pitchers mound. Rhodes boumced back to defeat Huntingdon 8-7. With the game all tied up in the top of the 9th, Ben Daniel delivered a clutch RBI single up the middle that drove home Cooper Kuriger and gave the Lynx the lead heading into the final frame.
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| Roanoke College won their season opener for the first time since 2021 with a 4-3 extra inning victory over Methodist. The win is the first of head coach Brett Kaminski's career as a Maroon. More photos d3photography.com photo by Dave Hilbert |
Redlands (1-1, 1-1) evened the series in game of their doubleheader at Whittier College with an 8-2 win that was driven by a six-run second inning. In game two they pulled away in the ninth, 12-5, for the series win. Redlands built a 8-0 lead after only two innings. Those eight runs would be all Redlands needed as Erik Radder went 6.2 innings in his debut with nine strikeouts and only one run allowed. Phillip Economos and Brett Edwards finished off the last 2.1 In the nightcap, the Bulldogs put the game away with a seven-run ninth.
Texas-Dallas started the 2025 campaign off in explosive fashion, defeating Dallas 10-0 and 20-7 in a pair of seven-inning contests at UTD Baseball Field Saturday. Dylan Collins and Jake Jennings combined for a shutout effort on the mound in the opener. Collins earned the win, throwing five innings and allowing just three hits, two walks while fanning five batters. Jennings gave up just one hit and one walk while striking out one over the final two frames. The Comets continued the momentum into the nightcap, scoring three runs in the first. They followed with a five-run second inning, which included a two-run McCown homer over the left center fence. McCown put the game out of reach at 10-5 in the bottom of the fourth with a two-run shot to left field - his third home run of the day. UTD tacked on another run in the fifth and nine runs on six hits, three walks, two sacrifice flies and a hit batter in the sixth.Texas-Dallas started the 2025 campaign off in explosive fashion, defeating Dallas 10-0 and 20-7 in a pair of seven-inning contests at UTD Baseball Field Saturday. Dylan Collins and Jake Jennings combined for a shutout effort on the mound in the opener. Collins earned the win, throwing five innings and allowing just three hits, two walks while fanning five batters. Jennings gave up just one hit and one walk while striking out one over the final two frames. The Comets continued the momentum into the nightcap, scoring three runs in the first. They followed with a five-run second inning, which included a two-run McCown homer over the left center fence. McCown put the game out of reach at 10-5 in the bottom of the fourth with a two-run shot to left field - his third home run of the day. UTD tacked on another run in the fifth and nine runs on six hits, three walks, two sacrifice flies and a hit batter in the sixth.
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor swept Austin College in a three-game series Saturday in Sherman. The Cru opens the season at 3-0 while Austin College opens with an 0-3 record.
The Cru opened the 2025 season Friday night in Sherman. Due to fog, the opener for both teams was postponed and play continued in the top of the fourth inning on Saturday. The Cru took the lead in the top of the seventh inning after a two-RBI double from Tyler Martin scored JC Hughes and Riley Bender to make it a 3-1 game. A Roos throwing error in the top of the eighth inning made it 4-1. UMHB allowed an unearned run for Austin College in the bottom of the eighth inning, but closed out the scoring with a 4-2 Cru win. The Cru came out swinging in the second game of the series and never trailed as the Cru earned its second win of the day with a final score of 14-7. UMHB opened game three of the series like the second with five early runs in the top of the first inning off five hits. UMHB went on to add six more runs along with Austin College's five additional runs, giving the Cru a 13-8 win.
Concordia Texas completed the series sweep in the season opener with a pair of wins, 15-2, 15-5, over Howard Payne. Zach Seigrist & Colby Christian went yard in game one, while Landon Hyle & Carson Riley homered in game two at Gardner-Boggs Field on Saturday. Otto Franz pitched a masterpiece as he earned the win with six strikeouts and only one hitter on-base in 5.0 innings of action. In game two CTX built a 10-0 lead with savvy base running by Carson Riley in the bottom of the third. Later in the inning with two outs & runners on the corners, Bo Dinscore had a RBI-single through the left side. Garcia, Hyle, & Logan Smith would all then notch RBI-singles to right field for a 14-0 lead. The Yellowjackets scored five in the top of the fifth to cut the deficit to 14-5, but a standup RBI-double by Dinscore brought home Gomez to push the advantage back up to 10. Neither team would score again as the Tornaods would earn a run-rule victory.