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| Winning their fifth straight game and moving to .500 on the year, North Central College cruised past Benedictine University, 11-0, Friday afternoon at Zimmerman Stadium. Starter Tyler Pritchard kept the Eagles in check, allowing just three hits, while the Cardinal offense racked up 11 runs on 13 hits. North Central (Ill.) athletics photo by Steve Woltmann |
Case Western Reserve senior right fielder Nick Harms hit a pair of home runs, including a game-winning blast with two outs in the top of the 11th inning, and first-year right-handed pitcher Oliver Miller pitched five scoreless innings of relief to give the 24th-ranked Spartans an 8-6 season-opening win over the 21st-ranked Chicago in Chicago on Friday afternoon. The win moves the two teams into a first-place tie for the lead in the University Athletic Association with each holding a 7-2 ledger in league play with three more meetings scheduled to occur between the two squads over the next two days. The Spartans improved to 18-9 overall while Chicago fell to 20-7. Harms bookended the game with a pair of two-run home runs, giving CWRU the lead in the first inning after sending one over the wall to put the team on top 2-0 and breaking a 6-6 tie in the bottom of the 11th with his second longball of the contest and team-leading 10th of the campaign. He finished the day three-for-four at the plate with a double, the two home runs, two runs scored, four runs batted in, and two walks.
Edgewood continued their road trip Friday with a key NACC showdown. They faced off with the Concordia Wisconsin Falcons in a doubleheader. After a hard-fought 4-3 game one victory, the Eagles (12-12, 7-5 NACC) completed the sweep with a 9-1 victory against the Falcons (13-12, 5-7). The Eagles hit the board early with a three-run first. A Jacob Carney double to left center plated a run, while a Kyle Prindle single through the right side and a Daniel Bentivegna grounder to short each tacked on a run. A Falcon double in the bottom of the frame left things 3-1 after 1. After a wild pitch brought a runner home for Concordia Wisconsin in the third, a single to left center evened the score 3-3 for the hosts. A double play would cut short the threat as the Edgewood College pitching staff locked in. The combination of Cole Pulliam and Mark Tor held the Falcons scoreless for the remaining five innings. The Eagles found their opportunity n the seventh, a Brevin Brisack single down the right field line ending up as the winning run. In the secong game, Aidan Williams settled in for a pitcher's duel through the early innings, but after Dominic Lee broke through with an RBI double to left center in the fifth the Eagles broke game two wide open in the sixth.
No. 5 Endicott swept Curry, 8-0 and 8-1, behind Charlie Hale and Evan Scully's complete-game efforts in Friday afternoon's shortened Conference of New England doubleheader at North Field. Behind Hale's dominant seven-inning complete game shutout, the Endicott offense was able to cruise to a victory in game one. The Gulls posted a run in the first, three in the third, one in the fifth, and three in the sixth to top the Colonels 8-0. Scully matched Hale's dominance, as he too went the distance in a complete-game four-hitter. A three-run top of the seventh capped things off for the Gulls offensively and left plenty of room for Scully to finish out his complete-game effort.
Rochester got off to a fast start, scoring 13 runs over the first four innings in a 15-4 victory over host Bard in a cross-divisional Liberty League matchup on Friday afternoon at Honey Field. Six Yellowjackets finished with multiple hits in the game, with all nine starters either recording an RBI or a run scored in the contest. Sophomore Sammy Besztery had a career game, smacking four hits, three of which were doubles while driving in six and also scoring twice. Jackson Reed went 3-for-6 with a pair of runs scored and an RBI, while Alexander Gonzalo had 2 hits, 2 runs and 3 RBI. Josh Leadem scored four times and was a menace on the basepaths, stealing three bases, adding to his UR all-time record. The win pushes Rochester's overall record to 10-10 and 5-4 in the Liberty League, while Bard drops to 3-19-1 on the year and 1-9 in conference play.
Adrian hosted Kalamazoo at Nicolay Field on Friday afternoon where the Bulldogs handled the Hornets with a 4-1 victory in the opening game of the three-game series. The Hornets struck first in the top of the fourth on a sacrifice fly, grabbing an early 1-0 lead. Adrian wasted no time responding in the bottom half. With the bases loaded, Jake Burns took one for the team, getting hit by a pitch to bring home Nic Bruder and tie things up. Linken Hayward stepped into the box and laced a clutch single into left field, driving in David Kedrow and Ryan Davis to give Adrian a 3-1 lead. Both teams had opportunities in the middle innings, but neither could break through in the fifth, sixth, or seventh. In the bottom of the eighth, Ryan Davis added some insurance, ripping a single through the left side to score Joe Casale and extend Adrian's lead 4-1. From there, the pitching took over. Starter Jaxon Clark was dominant, going seven strong innings, allowing just four hits and striking out four. Davis returned to the mound to close things out, slamming the door with two no-hit innings and a strikeout to earn the save to claim the victory in the first game of the series.
Rider Gordon was 4-for-5 with four runs batted in, capping off the game with a walk-off three-run homer in the eighth to enforce the 10-run rule, as No. 8 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps took a 15-4 win over Pomona-Pitzer in the first of a three-game series on Friday at Cougar Stadium. The Stags led just 5-4 in the bottom of the sixth, when Carter Bennett hit a solo home run to give CMS an insurance run. Gordon had an RBI single in the seventh and Blaise Heher added a sacrifice fly to push the lead to 8-4. CMS was then able to enforce the run rule with a seven-run eighth. Nate Seluga belted a three-run homer to push the lead to 11-4, and after Bryce Didrickson scored on a wild pitch, Gordon hit another three-run homer to end it. The Sagehens led 1-0 after the first, but Dillon Martin hit a two-run single in the third to put CMS ahead to stay. Heher had an RBI single and Bennett had a RBI double in a three-run fourth that pushed the lead to 5-1, before Pomona-Pitzer closed it back to 5-4 in the fifth. Dominic Rolla threw five innings to get the win for the Stags, while Parker McGraw threw three innings of relief to get the save.
No. 16 Cal Lutheran escaped No. 6 La Verne's comeback attempt in the top of the ninth inning, as Cal Lutheran took a 4-3 victory. With the win, the Kingsmen took the first game of the series and remained in first place against the second-place Leopards. Reigning SCIAC Pitcher of the Week Luke Wechsler started the game for Cal Lutheran and was lights out against one of the top offenses in the nation. His final line consisted of eight innings, eight strikeouts, and no earned runs. The offense did its part as Kai Caranto recorded two RBIs on one hit, and Carlos Vega tallied two hits. Caranto's two RBIs came early in the second inning with a single to right field, scoring Noah Matsumoto and Zach Gardner. In the fourth, Eric Gonzalez was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, which put the Kingsmen up 3-0. Later in the inning, Jona Dawson hit a sacrifice fly to score Matsumoto for Cal Lutheran's fourth run of the game. Two costly errors from the Kingsmen defense put two Leopards on with no outs in the bottom of the ninth. La Verne capitalized and scored three runs, but Alec Garcia ended the game with a leaping grab in center field.
St. Olaf College moved to 6-0 in Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play for the second season in a row by sweeping the College of St. Scholastica by scores of 4-0 and 5-4 on Friday afternoon at Wade Stadium. Senior Jacob Fickenscher tossed a five-hit shutout to pitch St. Olaf (15-5, 6-0 MIAC) to the victory in the opener before the Oles overcame a deficit and used a four-run seventh inning to complete the sweep of St. Scholastica (9-12, 2-5 MIAC) in game two. Fickenscher threw the first shutout of his collegiate career, limiting St. Scholastica to five hits and one walk with nine strikeouts to run his record to 5-1 on the season. The nine-strikeout performance boosted Fickenscher's MIAC-leading total this season to 40 strikeouts in 35.0 innings pitched. St. Olaf faced a 3-1 deficit in game two before scoring four runs in the top of the seventh to take the lead. Sophomore Kieran Haaland made the lead stand up by tossing the final three innings, allowing one run on one hit with two strikeouts to collect his second save of the season. The sweep extended St. Olaf's winning streak to nine games and meant the Oles remain the final unbeaten team in the conference.
No. 22 Coe opened its weekend series with a run-rule victory over the visiting Nebraska Wesleyan University Prairie Wolves Friday afternoon, winning 11-1 in seven innings. The Kohawk offense got the party started in the second inning, erupting for six runs on three hits and a pair of Prairie Wolf errors. The teams traded runs in the bottom of the third and top of the fourth before another big inning for the hosts in the sixth, scoring four runs on three hits and two more defensive miscues. Tyce Johnson and Ryan Thoreson had RBI in the frame before Thoreson scored the eventual clinching run on a wild pitch. Kohawk starting pitcher Jack Walsh returned to the mound for the top of the seventh after continuing his dominant run, recording an easy 1, 2, 3 top of the seventh to earn his fourth win of the season.
Taking a doubleheader in American Southwest Conference play, No. 25 East Texas Baptist University swept Howard Payne University on Friday. ETBU won game one, 8-4, and opened up their offense in game two with a 17-3. ETBU is now 19-10 and 6-1 in the ASC. ETBU recorded 23 hits and 25 runs with seven extra-base hits with five doubles, and two home runs. Joaquin Costa was 4-of-8 with one RBU and three runs scored. Luke Bumpus, Ben Lea, and Hunter Rumachik all had three hits. Nicolas Chavez led the team with a home run and four RBIs, and Bumpus and William Howard added three RBIs. Lea, Carson Livesay, and Nathan Harmon had two RBIs, and Ryan Ruff gave one RBI. Matthew Irwin earned the win in game one, going five innings with five strikeouts on eight hits and four earned runs. Tyler Bogusz won game two with a five-inning performance, three strikeouts on five hits, and no earned runs.
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| Northwestern (Minn.) welcomed Northland to their last visit to Reynolds Field and defeated the visitors 7-5 on Friday. Click here for photos of the game d3photograpy.com photo by Ryan Coleman |
No. 13 Salve Regina defeated Babson 5-4 in NEWMAC action on Friday afternoon at Govoni Field. The Seahawks were led by starting pitcher Brayden Clark (W, 6-2) who worked 5.1 innings and struck out five Beavers while allowing just one earned run; Christian Homa had two hits and drove in a pair of runs. Salve Regina (16-7, 5-3 NEWMAC) also had runs batted in from Evan O'Rourke, Shane Williams, and Tyler Petrosino.
Joe Godoy had his third-straight start with no earned runs allowed and Rylan Morris drove in the first four runs as Redlands (20-12, 9-7) defeated Occidental 7-0. Luke De Vries went 1-for-2 with three walks and two runs. Morris went 3-for-5 with four RBI and three runs scored. Godoy got the start and when three scoreless innings with six strikeouts. Kethan Efron got the win and held the Tigers off the board in the fourth. He was the first of six relief pitchers to compete the shut out along with Kyler Bacosa, Jack Brown, Aziz Bishop, Phillip Economos, and Gavin Duenez.
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After taking a tough loss yesterday in the away game, the Rutgers-Newark Scarlet Raiders (12-16) stormed back and secured an 8-7 walk-off win over the NJCU Gothic Knights (10-15-1), bringing their conference record to 4-4 on the season. NJCU added to their lead once again in the fifth, as Collin Elam and Jeremy Ricourt each brought a runner home to widen the gap back out to four. Devin Rojas pulled one back in the bottom half, but the Scarlet Raiders still trailed by three going into the final innings. After the fifth, the arms for the home team were unstoppable. Joey Santi, Michael Romano, and Vince Taylor all put up zeroes. Meanwhile, the offense was making up ground. Ulisses Ferraz doubled to plate a pair in the seventh, and Matthew Storch brought home the tying run in the eighth with another sacrifice fly. Neither team could make the difference in the ninth, so into extra innings they went. Taylor put up a one-two-three inning, and the Gothic Knights' pitching was in trouble. Gil Prial came up with the bases loaded and two outs, and he was able to work a walk to bring in the game-winning run! The Scarlet Raiders split the home and away with a walk-off walk.
No. 23 Bowdoin shut out Tufts 8-0 in the opening game Friday's doubleheader and fell 6-2 in the nightcap. Lukas Tsai had Bowdoin's first two RBI with a single in the first and groundout in the third. Liam Foley added an RBI single up the middle in the third to make it 3-0. Bowdoin added three more runs in the fifth inning including RBI from Will Cooke and Chris Dirks. Cooke stole home in the seventh and Bordes added an RBI single to wrap the scoring. Bordes went 4-for-5, while Foley and Dirks both had a pair of hits. Jason Bogdanos pitched a complete seven innings with seven hits allowed. The senior walked one batter and fanned three. Tufts scored in the first and third innings to take a 3-0 lead. A two-run homer in the fourth made it 5-0 and another solo shot in the sixth made it six for Tufts. Bowdoin rallied late with two runs in the eighth innings. Reuben Siegel singled to right center and Will Bordes plated Cal Thompson with a sacrifice fly. Siegel, Tsai, and Thompson were the only three Bowdoin batters with a hit in the game. Jackson Melendy went three innings with three walks and four hits allowed. Melendy allowed three runs with one strikeout. Sam Sacerdote pitched three innings with three runs and three hits allowed. Jeremiah Chessie closed out the game with two shutout innings without allowing a hit.
Junior John Tully tossed his first career complete game and Bates defeated Colby 5-2 Friday afternoon in NESCAC East action. Tully threw 113 pitches in the victory, holding Colby to six hits on the day and striking out three. He has now won three straight starts in NESCAC East play, improving his overall record to 3-1 on the season. It's the first nine-inning complete game thrown by a Bates baseball pitcher in NESCAC play since 2019. Trailing 1-0, the Bobcats (7-13, 3-4 NESCAC East) took the lead for good in the top of the third. With two outs and nobody on, sophomore Keagan Ryan got the rally started with a single. Junior Jack Margiloff doubled Ryan home and senior Ben Genser singled in Margiloff for a 2-1 Bates lead. Bates turned another double play after the lead-off batter reached for Colby in the ninth. Then Tully got Silva to ground back to the mound for the final out as Bates won in Waterville against the Mules for the first time since 2019. The Bobcats tallied 13 hits as a team, with every player in the lineup recording at least one hit in the contest.
Mary Hardin-Baylor split a Friday doubleheader at Texas-Dallas, taking a 7-4 win in the first game before falling 17-0 in the second. UMHB moved to 18-12 while the Comets went to 25-4. Riley Bender opened up game one with a solo home run, his sixth of the year, to take an early 1-0 lead in the first inning. Shane Melick followed with a solo shot of his own over the left field wall, extending the Cru's lead to two. The Cru didn't stop there as Trae Deck III came up to the plate with two runners on, blasting a ball over left field to move the score to 5-0. After the three home run inning for UMHB, the Comets responded with an RBI double in the bottom of the first to chip into the Cru's lead 5-1. John Van Huis got that run back in the third with an RBI single to score Easton Cline. Shane Melick tacked on one more run for the Cru, scoring Carson Hagan with a sacrifice fly to right field. The Comets added one run in the sixth and threatened in the seventh, scoring two off a home run. Jacob Haynes got out of the inning with a pair of groundouts and a strikeout to hold the Cru's 7-4 lead. Bender, Deck and Exavier Mendez led the Cru with two hits each while six different Crusaders scored runs and four had RBI. James McGlumphy earned the win on the mound, throwing six innings with six hits and two runs allowed. UMHB totaled seven runs on nine hits while the Comets had four runs on eight hits. The Comets commanded game two, scoring one run in the first and three more in the second. After a scoreless third inning, UTD put up a 10-run fourth. The Comets tacked on three more runs in the fifth to secure the 17-0 victory.
Piedmont senior Zeke Swartz tossed a complete game in the Lions' 3-1 win over LaGrange Friday evening. Swartz allowed just six hits and one unearned run while striking out 12 batters. Swartz worked a 1-2-3 inning in both the first and the second as he struck out the side in the second. Piedmont was the first to record a hit in the game in the bottom of the second but it took until the fourth for a run to come across. With the bases loaded and Tucker Ausband at the plate, a wild pitch drove in the first run of the game. Swartz struck out two more in the fifth to have eight strikeouts through 18 batters faced.The Panthers struck in the sixth inning after a pair of singles and an error to tie the game, but the run was unearned. Piedmont was not deterred coming back with their own run in the home half of the inning to take back the lead and added another in the seventh for good measure. After another three up, three down inning in the eighth, Swartz was given the green light to close out the contest and did so with another quick inning in the ninth.
LeTourneau hit six home runs between two games and swept a doubleheader from Hardin-Simmons on Friday night at Hunter Field in ASC action. LeTourneau won the opener 15-9 before a 10-6 victory in the nightcap. LeTourneau (17-13, 9-2 ASC) hit three homers in each game. Dane Jones hit two home runs in both games, giving him 11 (of his season total of 13) over the last 10 games. LeTourneau slugged three home runs and totaled 17 hits in a 15-9 victory in game one of Friday's doubleheader. Jones was at it again. After hitting two home runs in Thursday night's series opener, the fifth-year player hit two home runs and was 4-for-5 with six RBIs and four runs scored in the win. Xander Nabors and Luke Land also had four hits apiece and combined for five RBIs and four runs scored. The LeTourneau bats were on fire again as the YellowJackets scored 10 times on 11 hits to complete the doubleheader sweep with a 10-6 win. Jones homered twice for a third straight game as he went 3-for-6 with four RBIs and four runs scored. He opened the scoring with a two-run homer to left field in the first inning and added a solo shot to center field in the third inning.
Graduate student Frank Tonina hit a walk-off double in the bottom of the 10th inning to lead Stevens to an 8-7 triumph over DeSales University on Friday afternoon. Dylan Fishbough and Eli Somers each went 4-for-5 for Stevens (17-11, 12-1 MAC Freedom), while Travis Kerr reached base five times for DeSales (15-12, 7-6 MAC Freedom). Frank Parrotti came in for DeSales and got the first out of the ninth before Victor Schilleci worked a seven-pitch walk. Somers then drilled a double down the left-field line, advancing Schilleci to third. Fishbough drove an 0-2 pitch back up the middle, scoring both Schilleci and pinch-runner Luke Mahala to even the game at seven. DeSales came up empty in the 10th, and Colby Ching was hit by a pitch with one out. After a strikeout, Tonina laced a double to deep left field. As Ching came around third base, the relay throw deflected off the catcher's glove, allowing Ching to score from first.
Behind 6.0 strong innings from sophomore Allen Hinckley and timely hitting from senior Ben Jerome and sophomore Anthony Hackert, Nichols topped Rhode Island College, 5-3 in non-conference play on Friday afternoon from the Nichols Baseball Field. Jerome was 3-4 with an RBI, while Hackert also tallied three hits, while scoring a run and adding an RBI. Hinckley (2-1) grabbed his second win of the season, throwing 6.0 innings, allowing five hits and striking out four batters. Willand threw 0.1 innings and Sullivan (1) recorded the save with 2.2 innings thrown, with two strikeouts and allowing one hit.
Sophomore Austin Alflen drove in senior Mikey Kuzara with the winning run, as Olivet walked-off with a 2-1 victory over Hope College in the first game of a Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association weekend series this afternoon at the Cutler Athletic Complex. For the first six innings, the game was a pitcher's duel between Hope's Mason Belmore and Olivet junior Bryan Carney. The Flying Dutchmen took a 1-0 lead in the seventh inning when Jace DeMann launched a 1-0 pitch over the fence in left field. The Comets answered in the eighth inning. After the first out was recorded, junior Tyler Duncan roped a single to left field. Junior Nate Droste lined a double into the right-center field gap and Duncan hustled around the bases to score the tying run. Hope's second batter of the ninth inning reached base before he was thrown out trying to steal second base. The next batter singled through the right side of the infield. The third out was recorded on a hard line caught by Droste at second base. Kuzara led off the ninth with a single. On the play, the Flying Dutchmen second baseman threw the ball out of play, giving second base to Kuzara. Sophomore Jack Friesen walked on four pitches. Junior Brody Parten executed a perfect sacrifice bunt to advance Kuzara to third base and Friesen to second base. With the infield drawn in, Alflen poked a sharply hit ball into left-center field to score Kuzara.
SUNY New Paltz earned a doubleheader sweep on the road over Plattsburgh Friday after clinching an 8-1 and 15-4 victory on Chip Cummings Field. The Hawks' freshmen arms showed out once again in Game 1, as Kiran Painganker earned the start and improved to 2-1 on the year after tossing seven innings, giving up just five hits, one run — none earned — with eight strikeouts in 25 batters faced. Tyler Lopez came in to throw the last two innings and didn't give up a hit or run, just one walk with two strikeouts to close out the victory. SUNY New Paltz gave its young pitching staff run support early. SUNY New Paltz trailed to start game two, but an explosive eight-run sixth inning broke the game open, leading to a 15-4 rout in just eight innings played.
Middlebury battled back in Friday's second contest against Hamilton, rallying with five runs in the seventh inning for an 8-7 triumph. The Continentals took the seven-inning opener 3-2 to earn the split. During the nightcap, Kyle McCausland became the program's career hit leader with a one-out single in the first inning. In game one, the Panthers closed the deficit with a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the frame. Neither side mustered a rally over the final innings, as Continental reliever Eddie Taylor logged a perfect two final frames to collect the save and the one-run victory. The game two score remained a four-run difference until the sixth. The Panthers cut the deficit back to three (7-4) on an RBI single to left by McCausland to push across Chi who reached on an infield single. The Panthers took the lead for good in the bottom of the seventh with five runs, including run-scoring hits by Slaughter and Samii alongside a bases-loaded walk from Chi, for an 8-7 lead. Charlie Kutz came on in relief, logging the final two innings on the mound. He wiggled out of a first and third with nobody out jam in the ninth, striking out the final two batters to propel Middlebury to the thrilling one-run win. Kyle McCausland collected two hits on the day, giving him 179 for his career to move past John Lanahan's '08 mark (177) to sit atop the program's record books.