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| Senior right fielder and team captain Greer Farr had three hits and three RBIs, while junior first baseman and team captain Jase Howell and sophomore designated hitter Connor Powell, each had two hits and two RBIs to lead Hampden-Sydney to an 8-0 non-conference baseball home win past Muskingum on Friday night on Yank Bernier Field at the Ty Cobb Ballpark – Wurdeman Stadium. Senior right-hander and team captain Sterling Austin (pictured) pitched the first 6.2 shutout innings with a career-high 10 strikeouts to earn the pitching victory for the host Tigers against the visiting Fighting Muskies in the first game of the H-SC Invitational. school athletics photo by Karretti Media |
"It ain't over til it's over," once said major league baseball legend Yogi Berra and on Friday at the D3 Showcase at First National Bank Field in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Christopher Newport Captains and Marietta Pioneers put that mantra to the test. Nine innings wasn't enough in a back-and-forth marathon that lasted over four and a half hours, featured over 480 pitches thrown, 41 runs scored on 37 hits, and a walk-off winner for the Captains (4-1) in a 21-20 final. CNU split the day after suffering a 13-4 setback to second-ranked Denison (1-0) but the second game of the day highlighted the action as Marietta opened the season (0-2).
No. 3 Denison Big Red kick off the 2026 season at the D3 Showcase in Greensboro, North Carolina, against the Captains of Christopher Newport. The Captains present with a perfect 3-0 start to the season as the Big Red battled in their first action on the diamond. In the fifth all-time matchup between the Division III baseball powerhouses, the Big Red were able to claim their first victory of the year in a 13-4 decision. Will Rettig picked up the first win of his senior campaign, lasting 5.0 innings, giving up two runs, and striking out three. Ryan Paganelis, Noah Shapo, Evan Cerretani, and Robbie Lee would make appearances out of the bullpen. In the box, Cade Nowik led the day with four RBIs in a 2-3 performance. Overall, the Big Red outpaced the Captains with 15 hits compared to their seven.
A 10-run ninth inning propelled DePauw to a 15-5 win over Ripon in the season opener for both schools. Ripon evened the score at 5-5 in the eighth with not thought that the lead would be short lived. In the top of the ninth, Grady Johnson and Cuinn Morrow led off with singles before Nolan Whitehead singled home Johnson. Connor Osborne walked to load the bases and Louis Florida was hit by a pitch scoring Morrow. Whitehead crossed the plate on a wild pitch before Dorsey drove in a pair with a single. Walkey walked and Bond singled home Dorsey and, after Johnson reached on an error, Morrow drove in three with a triple. Morrow scored when Zach O'Connell reached on an error. Morrow led the Tigers with four of their 14 hits.
No. 9 Trinity took two from No. 1 Wisconsin-Whitewater on Friday, winning 12-1 and 5-4. Trinity opened the scoring in the bottom of the first inning with immediate pressure at the plate. The Tigers broke the game open in the third inning, erupting for four runs on five hits. Trinity's biggest statement came in the fourth, exploding for six runs to put the game out of reach. In game two, the Tigers did their damage first in the bottom of the second making it a three-run frame. Whitewater pushed across single runs in the fifth and sixth inning to bring the game to square. With the game tied late, Trinity delivered the deciding swing in the bottom of the eighth. Cam Champness singled and John Ramsey entered as a pinch runner, then moved into scoring position on Kaleb Woodward's single through the left side. Grant Anderson lifted a sacrifice fly to right-center to bring Ramsey home with the go-ahead run.
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Senior first baseman Ryan Kramer finished an RBI shy of Wooster's first eight-RBI game since 2010, and the All-American led the Fighting Scots to a 14-1 seven-inning rout of Oglethorpe in the nightcap of opening day. Wooster fell 11-7 to Oglethorpe in Friday's opener. Kramer staked Wooster (1-1) to a 2-0 lead, ripping an opposite-field homer in the top of the first inning before Wooster broke the game open in the fourth, scoring six times to take a 9-1 lead. In game one, Wooster's opener was off to a promising start, as the Scots led 6-1 after the top of the fifth. Oglethorpe got to the Scots' pitcher in the fifth, and the Petrels scored seven times to take the lead. Parker Spring took the win for Oglethorpe, as he entered in the fifth inning. Spring allowed two runs on four hits in 2 2/3 innings of work.
Illinois College opened the 2026 season Friday with a doubleheader split against the College of St. Scholastica. The Blueboys erupted for 22 runs in the opener, 22-10, before dropping a tightly contested second game, 6-5. The Blueboys wasted little time setting the tone for the season, plating 22 runs on 17 hits in a dominant offensive performance. Nicholas Muskopf delivered a standout performance at the top of the lineup, going 5-for-6 with five runs scored and five RBIs, including a triple and two doubles. Illinois College jumped out to an early lead in the second game as well, scoring twice in the first inning. and extended the lead to 5-1 through four innings. St. Scholastica answered with three runs in the fourth and tied the game in the fifth on a solo home run. In the seventh, the Saints capitalized on a hit batter and a defensive miscue to plate the decisive run and secure the 6–5 win.
Hobart opened the 2026 season with a doubleheader sweep of Hanover College, 11-3 and 5-3, at Armstrong-Shelley Stadium. The Statesmen won Game 1 going away 11-3 and took Game 2 5-3. Hobart pounded out 16 hits across the two, seven-inning games. Junior Sean Garvin had the hot bat, going 4-for-6 with a home run and three RBIs. The Statesmen used a decisive five-run third inning to set a course to victory in their season opener for the first time since 1995. The Statesmen pounced on the Panthers in the night cap and held on for the two-run win. Hobart scored all five of its runs in the first two innings.
Kalamazoo (5-0) defeated Berea College 21-3 in seven innings Friday night at Eastern Kentucky University's Turkey Hughes Field at Earle Combs Stadium. Berea scored a run in the bottom of the first and trailed 3-2 after three innings despite not recording a hit. The Hornets proceeded to score five runs in the fifth, 10 in the sixth and three in the seventh to take a 21-2 lead. The Mountaineers recorded their first hit with two outs in the seventh on an RBI single to make it 21-3. Berea finished with two hits in the game, both coming with two outs in the seventh. Kalamazoo recorded 12 hits in the game while taking advantage of 10 walks and tying a school record with eight hit-by-pitch.
Susquehanna downed the Falcons of Pfeiffer 4-3 following a late start due to a rain delay. Dylan Heyduk's RBI double broke a 3-3 tie in the fifth, then Susquehanna's bullpen stepped in to shut out the winless Falcons. The River Hawks totaled six hits during the contest, with the Falcons earning seven total hits. Michael Gagliardi finished the game going 2-3 from the plate, including one free pass. Lincoln Hower, Dylan Heyduk, Aidan Proctor, and Michael Girardi all notched one hit for the River Hawks. Josh Domaracki earned the win for SU, pitching a total of five innings, allowing five hits and three runs. Cole Lilore earned the save for SU, pitching the ninth inning, allowing zero hits while facing four batters.
Drew earned its first victory of the season with a 19-5 win over Saint Elizabeth on the opening day of the Madison Avenue Challenge on Friday at FDU-Florham. The Rangers (1-1) broke the game open with a 12-run fifth inning, and the contest was called due to darkness when the inning ended. Drew finished with five hits but took full advantage of 18 walks. Sophomore Zach Maxwell finished with a double, three runs, and three RBIs while classmate Frank Master finished with a triple, two runs, and two RBIs. Senior Zachary Chhabria drew four walks and scored three runs. Freshman Nicholas Lo Vacco tossed the first 4 1/3 innings for the Rangers to capture his first career victory. He yielded three runs (one earned) on three hits and four walks while striking out six.
Heidelberg rallied for a victory on opening day, upending Hope, 8-6. Sam Schneider broke a 6-6 tie in the top of the ninth with a two-run double, propelling the Student Princes to the win. Braedy Limke had three of Heidelberg's nine hits, including a two-run home run. The Berg traded leads with Hop until the ninth. Still knotted at 6 in the ninth, Sam Schneider delivered a clutch two-out, two-run double down the right field line, plating Bayden Tucker and Limke. Aidan Cummings, who entered the game in the seventh, worked a 1-2-3 ninth and picked up the victory. He went 3.0 innings, allowing one unearned run on three hits. He fanned four. Starter Jameson Oleson gave up two runs in 5.0 innings, striking out six.
Redlands (4-5) jumped out to an early 4-0 lead and would eventually take down Whitman College, 16-7, Friday afternoon at The Yard in game one of three. Tyler Barsness singled home Jesse Bullard in the first for a quick 1-0 lead. In the second Sean McCance and Tanner Gerosa made it 4-0 with a pair of singles. Whitman got two runs back in the third before Ian Umscheid hit a solo home run to right field. After the Blues made it 5-3 Bulldogs lead in the top of the fourth, Redlands plated six runs in the fifth. A passed ball, bases loaded walk to Luke Hanson, and a wild pitch allowed the first three Bulldogs to score. Bullard then doubled home a pair before Umscheid found grass in the gap to make it 11-3. The final five runs came off a Hanson sacrifice fly, a Bullard home rum, a second Hanson sacrifice fly, a bases loaded walk drawn by Nate Miller, and a Nevan Namgoong triple that brought around Bubba Correa.
Pomona-Pitzer opened SCIAC play with a 15-0 win over Chapman Friday afternoon at Alumni Field. Cooper Berry paced the team offensively with six RBI after going 4-of-4 from the plate with four runs scored. Kai Gonzaga added three RBI on a three-run homer in the sixth while Jack Gold also posted three RBI. Tanner DeGrazia and James Quintero each batted a pair of runs in. Max Brunngraber (2-0) pitched a complete game shutout from the mound, striking out seven while only allowing two hits in 7.0 innings of work. Gonzaga added a three-run homer of his own in the sixth, as the Sagehens entered the top of the seventh up 15-0. Brunngraber sealed the run-rule victory with a backwards "K" for his seventh punchout of the game.
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| Pitching and a three-run fourth inning led LeTourneau to a 3-2 series-opening victory over No. 22 McMurry on Friday night at Conrad-Vernon Field. Letourneau athletics photo by Mickenzie Murry |
Playing the earliest home-opening game in the history of Nobby's Ballpark, 14th-ranked Case Western Reserve claimed a pair of wins over Oswego State on Friday afternoon, besting the Lakers 12-7 in the first game and 7-1 in the second contest. Junior Tyler Stillson had a huge impact both at the plate and on the mound. Over the two games as the designated hitter, he batted .750 (6-8) with two doubles, a triple, three RBIs, and a run scored. He was also the starting pitcher of game two of the doubleheader and struck out 10 batters over five shutout innings. First-year second baseman James O'Connor made an immediate splash, batting .444 (4-9) with a team-high five RBIs and four runs, along with a pair of doubles. CWRU hit .343 as a team with a .949 OPS during the day, while the pitching staff notched a 2.50 ERA with a .212 opponents' average.
No. 20 Adrian opened its season in Canton, Ohio, with a 15-9 victory over Brockport on Saturday. The Bulldogs powered their way to the win with four home runs, including two from Aiden Melvin. Adrian struck first with four runs in the top of the second inning. Melvin launched a three-run homer before Brendan Willadsen added an RBI single. Brockport responded with two runs in the bottom half to cut the lead to 4-1. The Bulldogs broke the game open in the fourth, plating six runs. Willadsen crushed a three-run homer, Jake Burns added a solo shot, and Casey Finn and Melvin each delivered RBI singles.
Bates scored five runs in the second inning and never looked back, defeating St. Lawrence 12-3 Friday afternoon to start the 2026 season on the right foot. Senior John Tully (Framingham, Mass.) tossed five shutout innings, allowing just two hits while striking out three to earn the win. With the game scoreless, the Bobcats (1-0) jumped on St. Lawrence starter David Zuhlsdorf (0-1) in the bottom of the second for five runs. Bates added four in the sixth and two in the seventh before the Saints got on the scoreboard.
Capital was back in action on Friday for the first two games of a three game set with Brevard. The Comets remained scorching hot offensively, sweeping the day with 15-5 and 12-4 wins. With today's results, the Comets have now scored ten or more runs in four of their first five games. Their five game winning streak to begin the season is the longest since the shortened 2020 season. Despite squandering a four run cushion n game one, the Comets would respond in a big way, putting up seven runs in the top of the sixth to take a 11-4 advantage. Capital would put the game on ice with two runs in both the eighth and ninth innings, extending their lead to 15-4. The second game of the day would see Brevard jump in front early, using a home run in the bottom of the first to take the 1-0 lead. However, their lead would be short-lived, as Ty Clifton led off the top of the second with a solo shot of his own to tie the game. With the Tornados taking a 3-2 advantage, the Comets scored ten runs in the final five frames to put the game out of reach and give them their fifth straight win to begin the season.
No. 21 Penn State Harrisburg briefly left the winter weather behind, stepped foot on an outdoor diamond for the first time this spring and opened the 2026 campaign with a doubleheader split at North Carolina Wesleyan on Friday afternoon. The Lions fell 8-4 in the season opener before rallying to pick up their first win—a 4-3 victory in the nightcap. Despite outhitting the Battling Bishops, free bases plagued the visitors in game one. Demetre Koutras III and Braeden Piotrowski each homered, while Matthew Johansen had a multi-hit game. The finale saw the Lions fall behind early, put up four runs in the middle innings and hold off an NC Wesleyan comeback attempt in the bottom of the ninth. Reliever Jack Maguire earned the win, while Alexander Ruiz and Tim Haftl each had two-hit games.
Millikin traveled to Millington, Tennessee, and delivered a strong performance in an 8–1 victory over No. 15 Webster. Millikin struck early in the first inning when Easton Steck singled to score Carder Reich, giving the Big Blue an early advantage. They added another run in the third inning to build momentum. The turning point came in the seventh inning, when Millikin broke the game open with four runs. Steck delivered the biggest swing of the day with a three-RBI home run, extending the lead. Millikin added two more runs in the eighth inning to seal the 8–1 win. On the mound, Caleb Akins earned the win with a dominant outing, pitching six innings while allowing just two hits and striking out six. Offensively, Steck led the way, going 2-for-4 with four RBIs. Leyton Ivers added two hits and an RBI, while Pete Britton also collected two hits. Sam Bushur and Carder Reich each drove in a run..
Winning your season opener is always a great feeling. Winning your season opener in style is just that much better. Washington University just that as the Bears opened the season with a 10-0, run-rule win in eight innings over Benedictine at the USA Stadium Complex on Friday afternoon. Kevin Stephens led the Bears at the plate, going 3-for-4 with three singles, two RBIs, two runs scored, and a walk. Senior Isaac Zhang earned his first win of the season on the mound in 4.0 innings of relief work. He finished with six strikeouts while allowing just three hits and one walk. He relieved Stevenson, who finished with seven strikeouts, four hits, and just one walk, in the top of the fifth inning.
No. 17 Centre nearly doubled its total run output for the year in the fourth game of the season as the Colonels defeated the Trine Thunder by a score of 16-1 to improve to 3-1 on the year. The offense got off to a hot start with six runs in the first. Trine got a run back in the third before Centre opened the floodgates again in the bottom half of the inning. It started with a leadoff single from Johnson, then Woodall was hit by a pitch and Craig walked, loading the bases for Forrest Day, who uncorked a mammoth grand slam to make it a 10-1 game. Centre kept adding to the lead. Carson Waddle and Trevor Zimmerman pitched scoreless innings to end the game after seven. Centre's 16 runs came on 16 hits by a dozen different players. No Centre player finished with more than two hits on the night.
Covenant scored 21 runs between the two games of Friday's doubleheader, but ended up splitting with visiting Wheaton, winning game one 8-6 and dropping the nightcap 17-13. In the opener, Covenant came back from down 3-0 and 6-5 to take an 8-6 win over Wheaton in game one. Jonathan Glover (1-0) earned the win after throwing three scoreless frames to end the game, striking out three. His batterymate Hudson Couch came in clutch on the other side, tripling home two runs to give the Scots a lead they would not relinquish. In game two, the roles were reversed as Wheaton came back from a 10-3 deficit to upend the Scots, 17-13, in game two.
Mary Hardin-Baylor opened a three-game series against Southwestern with a 4-1 win in Georgetown Friday evening. With this win, the Cru's record improves to 5-3 on the season. After a scoreless half inning for the Cru offense, Alex Hill shut down the Pirates on the mound, striking out the side. UMHB got on the board first in the second frame after Braden Fuentes singled, advancing to third on a throwing error, later scoring on a Jasson Hemmerling, Jr. sacrifice fly. After five scoreless frames, the Cru put up a three-run eighth inning off a hit from JC Hughes and two Southwestern errors, moving the score to 4-0. The Pirates plated one run in the ninth inning, but UMHB held on for the 4-1 victory. Cameron Talburt led the Cru at the plate with three hits, followed by Taylor McDaniel, who tallied two. JC Hughes and Jasson Hemmerling, Jr. added an RBI each. Alex Hill earned the win on the mound, recording a career-high 12 strikeouts in seven innings and giving up just four hits.
Belhaven improved to 2-0 on the season with a 6-3 win over No. 25 East Texas Baptist on Friday evening at Trustmark Park. After working around traffic in the first, Belhaven broke through in the bottom of the second. Belhaven added two more runs in the third and single runs in the fifth and seventh for a 6-1 lead. East Texas Baptist made a push in the eighth. After a hit batter, Harmon doubled for the second time in the game to bring home a run. Justin Flannery followed with an RBI single to cut the lead to 6-3. Caleb Menard limited further damage, stranding a runner to keep the three-run cushion intact. In the ninth, John Wade closed it out. Despite two hit batters, Wade recorded a pair of strikeouts, including a swinging strikeout to end the game and earn his first save of the season.
Virginia Wesleyan (3-2) defeated SUNY New Paltz 8-4 on the back of good pitching from Brandon Drewry and an offensive sixth inning. James Tassone led the offense as he went 2-for-4 at bat, with two doubles, and tallied a team-high four RBI. Gino Meienschein was 2-for-4, with a home run, scored one run, and had two RBI. Nick Valentin was 1-for-2 with a homer, scored three runs, with a stolen base, and had two RBI, and teammate Nathan Bryant was 2-for-4 with two doubles and scored a run. Brandon Drewry pitched 6.0 innings, allowed four hits, one run, and recorded two strikeouts. Zach Miller came in relief and pitched 2.0 innings, allowed three runs, one two hits, and had two strikeouts, and Matthew Weber finished the game and pitched 1.0 inning, allowed zero runs, one hit, and registered one strikeout.
Linfield (4-0) opened the California road trip with a 9-7 win over the La Verne Leopards (0-2), thanks to two ninth-inning home runs from Wyatt Hurley and Wyatt McClory. In the fifth, a hit by pitch and walk helped plate two on a Rylan Gulard single to short. The lead was extended an inning later in part to yet another hit by pitch, Ely Kennel doubled and Jaxson Kister hit a two-run home run, making it 6-1 Wildcats. La Verne pounced in the seventh, knocking Matthew Tacheny out early in the inning, scoring six runs to give the Leopards their first lead of the game at 7-6. Kister responded with a sac-fly in the eighth, tying the game up going into the ninth. Wyatt McClory and Wyatt Hurley hit back-to-back jacks to begin the ninth to regain a 9-7 lead and put the Leopards on their final three outs. Casey Struckmeier slammed the door shut with three fly outs, giving the 'Cats a 9-7 win.
The 11th-ranked Johns Hopkins baseball team opened the 2026 campaign in emphatic fashion Friday afternoon, routing Rutgers-Newark, 24-0, to hand head coach Nate Mulberg a dominant victory in his debut at Babb Field at Stromberg Stadium. The 24 runs marked Hopkins' highest total in a season opener since 1946, when the Blue Jays defeated Catholic, 27-4. It was also the program's fifth all-time 20-plus run performance on Opening Day—and the first since 2007. While the offense dominated, Anderson was equally sharp on the mound. The right-hander earned the win with 5.0 scoreless innings, allowing just two hits and one walk while striking out six. He set the tone early and never allowed the Scarlet Raiders to generate any sustained momentum. The bullpen preserved the shutout in dominant fashion. William Moell, Gavin Simurdiak, Joseph Rainbolt and Alex Larson each tossed a scoreless inning. The quartet combined to allow no hits, striking out five and retiring 12 of the 14 batters they faced to secure Mulberg's first victory at the helm.
George Fox continued their four-game series against Centenary with a doubleheader—the Bruins lost 9-3 in game one, but had a strong 4-1 victory in the second game. Centenary tied the score in the opener after they scored a run in the top of second, and then broke the game open with a three-run fourth inning that featured a homer, advancing the score above Fox, 5-2. In the sixth inning, the Bruins struck back, but the Gents would score two runs in the seventh and two in the ninth to put Fox to bed, 9-3. The second game was slow on the scoreboard for the first three innings, as neither team scored. Centenary's first hit of the game scored the first run in the fourth inning. But Fox bided their time, and bounced back stronger than ever, taking advantage of several Centenary walks to take a lead. Finally, in the seventh inning, BJ Tokushima sealed the deal with a two home-run to left field claiming two RBIs for the third straight game. After Andrew Miller threw 2.1 scoreless innings, Cole Schmidt came in to seal the deal with the save, clinching the Bruins at least a split of the series.