ANNVILLE, Pa. – No. 1/1 Shenandoah University reached the 25-win mark this spring by sweeping a non-league baseball doubleheader Thursday afternoon at Lebanon Valley.
Shenandoah (25-2) needed 10 innings to win game one, 7-4, before Brian Goddard threw a complete game in a 5-1 victory in the nightcap.
Goddard (4-0) struck out 10 and allowed one run on seven hits and two walks in his first complete game of the spring.
SU scored one run in the first and another in the second before pulling away with one more in the fifth and two in the sixth over the Dutchmen (9-16).
Sophomore Keaton Neeb closed out the game two scoring with a two-run blast, his sixth of the season, to left.
Neeb also had the game-winning RBI on a groundout in the second.
Neeb and Mike Smith both had two hits in the nightcap.
In the opener, SU had a 3-0 lead after scoring one run in each of the first three innings, but was forced into extras after LVC tied it with one run in the fifth and three more in the sixth.
Junior Christian Frey, inserted as a pinch runner in the seventh, drove in the eventual game-winning run with a two-out single to right in the 10th.
The Dutchmen intentionally walked Tucker Brown to get to Frey, but Frey made them pay with the single off of reliever Derek Brousseau (1-1) to score Joey Donofrio from second.
Donofrio had led off the Hornet 10th with a single and was sacrificed to second.
Kurt Krout drew a walk following Frey's single, and then senior All-America Kevin Brashears gave SU some breathing room with a two-run single into the hole at short.
Junior Kyle Scallion (5-0), the third SU pitcher of the day, earned the win with 5.0 innings of relief work. He scattered four hits, did not allow a run and struck out six.
Shenandoah had 12 hits in the game, including two each from Brashears, Brown and senior All-America Greg Van Sickler.
Van Sickler led off the Hornet third with a solo HR to left.
SU completes USA South Conference play this weekend with a pair of 1:00 games against Averett. Game time is 1:00 both days and a sweep gives the Hornets their first-ever regular season title.