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| Juniata College staged a dramatic comeback to knock-off Keuka 9-8 in 10 innings on Sunday afternoon, highlighted by Jacob Despot's walk-off home run. The Eagles erased a five-run deficit and scored four runs in the eighth inning to force extras before Despot sealed the win with his clutch blast in the 10th. Juniata athletics photo |
St. Norbert College continued a successful start to the annual Florida trip, moving its win streak to four games with a sweep of Framingham State with scores of 15-0 and 8-5 at Lake Myrtle. The Green Knights (4-5) scored 15 runs off 14 hits in the first game of the doubleheader, with eight of the runs coming in the third inning. They followed this up with five runs the next inning to lock in the win. Jace Midbon earned the win with a complete seven-inning game, allowing just five hits with 13 strikeouts and no walks. Midbon's strikeouts are tied for fourth most in a game in program history. After taking a 1-0 lead in the second game off an error by the Rams, Farmingham State responded with a four-run inning to take a 4-1 lead. The Green Knights retook a 5-4 lead in the third, scoring several runs with the bases loaded, including scoring on a wild pitch and another Rams error. The Rams tied the game at 5-5 in the bottom of the third, but the Green Knights took the lead back for good when a Will DeBruin double down the left field line scored Trevor Reinhardt. A AJ Kisting solo home run in the seventh gave St. Norbert an insurance run to take the sweep over the Rams. Reinhardt took the win for St. Norbert, pitching 4.1 innings and allowing eight hits and five runs with six strikeouts and one walk. Matt Perry earned his second save in as many days, pitching the final inning and allowing one hit with one strikeout.
SUNY Oswego traveled to Virginia Beach for this season's spring training trip, and faced off today, against Randolph-Macon College. The Lakers outscored RMC 12-10 in a game that was called after seven innings due to darkness. The lead swapped between the two team until the sixth inning. Oswego reclaimed the lead with three in the sixth and added two in the seventh for a 12-8 advantage. In the bottom of the seventh, freshman CJ Chatterton had a one-out single and Bowles walked. Both runners moved up on a wild pitch and both scored on a single by Schmitt to make it 12-10. Following the end of the seventh with the Yellow Jackets taking the field for the eighth, the umpires huddled and called the game due to darkness.
UW-Oshkosh concluded its 11-game trip outside of Wisconsin with a 4-1 win over Transylvania University. The Titans (8-3) recorded eight hits including three doubles at the Pioneers' (7-6) Legends Field while holding the hosts to four. Transylvania also committed a pair of errors while Oshkosh turned in a clean fielding sheet. Zach Taylor went a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate, driving in a run and scoring one himself. Jake Surane, Carter Stebane, and Mason Kirchberg each hit a double. Connor Brinkman moved to 2-1 on the season in a seven-inning outing, striking out five batters while allowing one run on three hits and three walks. Scoring kicked off the fourth inning as Stebane scored on a Taylor single after reaching on a double down the left field line. UW-Oshkosh added three more runs in the top of the seventh. Taylor hit a single before advancing to third base on Kirchberg's double and scoring on a wild pitch. Kirchberg then scored on Owen Housinger's fielder's choice and Housinger reached home on an error. Brett Gaynor came in to throw the last two innings. He allowed just one hit in his first save of the season.
Waynesburg University scored 32 runs in a doubleheader split at Pitt-Greensburg on Monday afternoon, winning 23-8 and losing 11-10. Both doubleheaders were seven inning games. Waynesburg (4-10) snapped a five-game losing skid in which each defeat came to a team receiving votes in the national poll. The Bobcats also moved to 4-10 with the split. All 10 Yellow Jackets who recorded an at-bat had at least one hit, one RBI and one run scored as Waynesburg recorded a 23-8 win in game one. The offensive explosion was the program's highest-scoring outing since tallying 23 runs in a 2019 win over Geneva. The Jackets rallied back from an 8-3 deficit to lead 10-8 late but UPG scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh to secure a walk-off win with a bases loaded hit by pitch.
Geneva College wrapped up a successful Spring Break trip on Monday with a split of its final two games. The Golden Tornadoes edged Plymouth State in game one, 7-6, before falling in the second game of the day to Western Connecticut State, 12-1. Plymouth State took its first lead of the game with two runs off the Geneva bullpen in the top of the eighth, but the Geneva offense stirred to life in the bottom of the frame with a response. Senior Zack Sackett singled with one out and advanced to second on a wild pitch. After a second out was recorded, Babu came up with a big single to drive Sackett home. Lemansky followed with a double to the wall in right centerfield, bringing home Babu with what proved to be the winning run. Junior Ethan Blair, who had recorded the final out of the eighth inning, pitched a scoreless ninth, including a game-ending strikeout, to seal the win. Western Connecticut State University cranked out 14 hits and senior RHP Max Grewal pitched a three-hitter with five strikeouts, as the Wolves opened their spring break trip to South Carolina with a 12-1 win over the Geneva College Golden Tornadoes this afternoon at the Ripken Experience Ebbets Field. WestConn senior Spencer Barnett and sophomore Jayson Hannan both went 3-for-4 at the plate. The Wolves, who were stunned, 6-5, by the SUNY Old Westbury Panthers. Against Old Westbury, WestConn scored the first runs, leading 5-0 after three. The Panthers got one run back in the fourth and scored an unearned run in the sixth. Old Westbury stole the win with two walks, an error, and a walk-off two-run double that left WestConn on the field.
Saint John's (Minn.) rolled to a doubleheader sweep of Martin Luther, 18-2 and 16-0, on Monday. SJU (7-2 overall) batted .409 (27-for-66) with six doubles and two home runs – both from sophomore designated hitter Zach Helfmann in game one – and took advantage of 20 free passes (15 walks and five hit batsmen). Nine Johnnies recorded two RBI or more on the afternoon, while 16 registered a hit and 18 scored a run. Martin Luther (5-4 overall) entered the day batting .335 through the season's first seven games but SJU's pitching staff held the Knights to just four singles – a .087 batting average (4-for-46) – and collected 14 strikeouts in 14 innings.
UW-River Falls earned a seven-inning victory over Clarkson in the team's fourth game of its spring trip, defeating the Golden Knights 10-0. The Falcons were led by a ominant pitching performance from Cade Bruett who pitched six scoreless innings and earned his first victory of the season. Bruett allowed just two hits across his six-inning start, striking out four batters. Parker Nedland pitched one scoreless inning in relief for the Falcons. After a scoreless first inning, the Falcons stepped on the gas in the bottom of the second to give UWRF a commanding 4-0 lead early on. The Falcons added two runs in both the fourth and sixth innings, while adding one run in each of the fifth and seventh. UWRF totaled 13 hits and continued to gradually extend its lead as the game progressed. Patrick Lundgren's RBI-single in the bottom of the seventh allowed River Falls to win 10-0 in seven innings.
No. 3-ranked Johns Hopkins faced Rutgers-Camden (10-2) in its Saturday morning contest, defeating the Scarlet Raptors 9-4, and downing TCNJ (5-5), 15-5, in its afternoon game. With both victories, the Blue Jays improve to 4-1 on their spring break trip and 13-1 overall. Two defensive miscues from Charles Monterrosa, both on failed pick offs, allowed Rutgers-Camden to take a two-run lead. However, Hopkins scored five unanswered runs in the bottom of the third. In the back-and-forth contest, Rutgers-Camden scored the next run before Stevens launched the Jays sixth run of the game with a home run over the left field fence. Hopkins scored an additional two runs, extending the lead to five after six. With the Jays in control of the lead, Shawn Steuerer added Hopkins ninth run on an Alex Shane sacrifice fly. In game two, JHU scored nine runs in the first two innings and lead wire to wire for their second win on the day against NJAC competition. Ryan Anderson (1-1) earned the win in the blowout victory, throwing 1.2 innings of relief, striking out two and surrendering no hits. Camden Curley also added two strikeouts and no hits over two innings of relief.
No. 5 nationally ranked Endicott defeated Ramapo, 13-2, on Monday morning in the RussMatt Tournament. After two full scoreless innings, the Gulls took a 2-0 lead in the third after a Danny MacDougall RBI groundout and Zach Stephenson taking home on a wild pitch. They tacked on three insurance runs in the fourth, highlighted by MacDougall's RBI single. Then, in the fifth, another run came in on another wild pitch. The Roadrunners scratched across two runs in the bottom of the fifth, but the Gulls responded with four runs in the top of the sixth to give themselves a 10-2 lead. Kyle Grabowski and Cade Bernardo each racked up RBI base-hits in the inning. In the seventh, the Blue and Green posted three more runs after an RBI single from Joey Frammartino and an RBI groundout from Robbie Wladkowski to go up 13-2. Chris Jenkins stayed on in the seventh after tossing a scoreless sixth inning, and closed out the Roadrunners' bats to wrap up the seven-inning mercy rule win for Endicott.
Graduate Richard Williams led all Beacons with five hits in six trips, and first-year Jonny Pagano gets the win in his first career start, as UMass Boston (8-2) returns to the win column with a massive 17-7 victory over the Salem State Vikings. Pagano had a strong showing in his first career start. In six innings of work, he dealt a career-high nine strikeouts to 22 batters and allowed just one run on two hits in a strong defensive showing. The Beacons used four closers to support Pagano, with Jack Cangelosi, Hunter Ward, Marcus Mensah, and Ethan Nowak each coming in to help seal the deal. Ten Beacons recorded a hit, with UMass Boston going 17-43 at the dish as a unit with 16 RBIs. Williams led the way with five hits, followed by Slack with three hits in six trips, and Burkett-Schneider contributed two hits in four trips with two RBIs.