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| Anderson outscored Hanover 28-6 in their three game sweep of Hanover, including a 12-0 shutout win on Monday Anderson athletics photo |
Allegheny concluded their 2025 regular season against Presidents' Athletic Conference foe Geneva Monday (May 5), sweeping the Golden Tornadoes in a doubleheader, 4-1 and 6-5, held at Westminster in New Wilmington, Pa. The game one victory clinched the three seed in the upcoming PAC Championship Tournament. The Golden Tornadoes got on the board in the second with an unearned run on one hit and two walks. This was all the scoring they would get. Grant Dowden drove in Nick Banez in on an infield single to tie the game at one after three. A sacrifice bunt in the fifth by Alejandro Samayoa and a steal of third and an error made it 3-1. Another sacrifice fly increasing the lead to 4-1, the final score. Brett Schweickert pitched the first four innings, striking out seven while allowing one hit and no earned runs. Brett McSparren struck out four in three innings. Dawson Thomas finished the game and earned his first career save. The Gators got on the board in the third and grew the lead to 6-1. Geneva cut the Gator lead down to one run in the eighth as they scored four runs on two hits, making it 6-5. Tyspn Bryant-Dawson pitched the top of the ninth, earning the save by striking out three batters.
Thiel team blew past Waynesburg 12-0 at Tomcat Park Monday afternoon in game one to clinch a spot in the Presidents' Athletic Conference Championship Tournament for the second consecutive season. The Tomcat bats got started in the second as Cole Sherwin singled down the left-field line to score Calvin Cackowski and make it 1-0. Cackowski produced a sacrifice fly in the third to make it 2-0 while Sherwin brought in 2 later in the inning on a single to grow the lead to 4-0. Leading 5-0 in the fourth, Sherwin produced his third run-scoring hit of the day, this time a double to left, to make it 6-0. Sherwin capped his perfect 4-for-4 day with another RBI double in the sixth to make it 7-0. Ethan Bintrim, Fletcher Hindman and Nathen Prunty each produced RBIs in the inning as the Tomcats put up a 6 spot in the frame to spell the 12-0 final in seven. Sherwin was 4-for-4 in the victory, posted a career-high five RBIs and scored once. Cackowski was 1-for-3 with 3 runs and a RBI. Bintrim notched a 4-for-4 showing as well as he logged a run and RBI each. Prunty swatted three hits to go with 2 runs and RBIs apiece. Joey Schimizzi and Nick Jacobs each mashed a pair of hits with the former scoring once and the later crossing home twice. Alec Katon got the start and worked six shutout innings and struck out seven. He allowed just five hits and one walk to improve to 4-3 on the year. Katon had at least one K in 5 of 6 innings for the afternoon. Archie Teconchuk posted a scoreless seventh to seal the shutout. Game two was postponed due to continued rain and thunderstorms and no decision has been made on whether or not to play the second game. If the game is played and Thiel wins, they would be the four seed in the conference tournament. With a loss or if the game is not played, Thiel will be the sixth seed.
In the final regular season game, UW-Platteville (19-19) held Edgewood (19-20) to just four hits in a 7-1 win on Monday afternoon from Kendall Murray Field. The Eagles struck first with a solo home run in the third inning, but the Pioneers responded with a four-run frame in the bottom half of the third. After a leadoff single by junior Mason Molitor, freshman Trinity Beland tied the game with an RBI double to left field. Sophomore Caleb Parker singled to put runners on the corners, and a pair of throwing errors on the same play by the Edgewood allowed both Beland and Parker to score. Senior Justin Fago brought in the final run of the inning with a sacrifice fly. UW-Platteville added three more to the lead in the fourth, starting with another throwing error that allowed Molitor to score. Junior Sam Meidenbauer capped the scoring in the win, ripping a two-out, two-run double to right center that scored freshman Anthony Massa and Parker. Three different pitchers threw three innings for the Pioneers, with starting pitcher Conner Paulson tossing the first three while allowing one run on three hits. Sophomore Wyatt Fischer entered next and threw three shutout innings while striking out four to record his first win of the season. The save was credited to freshman Brayden Schimmel, who retired nine of the 11 batters he faced while striking out four across the final three frames. The trio held Edgewood to just four hits. The Pioneers totaled eight hits, led by two-hit performances from Beland, Parker, and Molitor. The team was patient at the plate, drawing five walks while striking out just six times. UW-Platteville travels to second-ranked UW-Whitewater on Thursday at noon for the first game of the WIAC Tournament. The winner advances to a 1 p.m. game on Friday, while the loser plays on Friday at 10 a.m. in the double elimination format.
Keystone concluded the regular season with a 10-7 win over Hobart Monday evening at the Gutchess Lumber Sports Complex. Errors were a common theme in the game for Hobart as Keystone opened the scoring in the second as a throwing error from a bunt single brought home two runs. Hobart took the lead with four runs in the fourth from a throwing error off a pickoff attempt, an RBI single, and a two-run double. The Giant eventually tied the game in the top half of the fifth off an RBI SAC fly and another throwing error. The Statesmen equalized in the bottom half of the inning with an RBI single followed by an RBI fielders' choice. Keystone would have a big inning in the sixth as they tacked on five runs off multiple base hits, a bases loaded walk, and another fielders' choice. Hobart scored once in the seventh from a wild pitch while the Giants added a run in the eighth off a throwing error. Nate Ewing went 3-for-5 while Carlos Pascual, Robert Estrada, and Andy Rivas recorded two hits. Griffin Yastremski led the team with two runs batted in. In a bullpen game, Leam Powell got the start and punched out one in an inning of work. Dylan Byler earned the win as he tossed 1.2 innings in relief with a strikeout. Ewing earned his first save of the season as pitched a scoreless ninth while punching out a batter.
St. John's (Minn.) ended its regular-season schedule with a 9-2 win over Crown. The Johnnies (25-14, 14-6 MIAC) totaled 12 hits in the game, which they broke open with a three-run third inning and added two runs each in the sixth and eighth. Junior left fielder Owen Amrhein drove in four runs and went 2-for-3 at the plate, while four other Johnnies matched his two hits apiece. Crown opened the game's scoring with an unearned run in the top of the first inning but Amrhein tied it with an RBI single in the bottom of the second. Sophomore second baseman Alex Matchey gave the Johnnies the lead with a two-out single up the middle. one they would no relinquish. Freshman Dylan Marciulionis earned the win in relief after he pitched two scoreless innings after classmate Ben Rudser made the start and allowed the unearned run in the first. Sophomore Brady Drkula, sophomore P.J. Johnson, junior Noah Jensen and freshman Tyler Gruye provided the rest of the work on the mound for SJU. Gruye made his collegiate debut and allowed one hit over the game's final two innings.