FROSTBURG, Maryland — All nine Pioneers in the starting lineup hit safely in today's game as Marietta College blasted Frostburg State, 18-5, Wednesday (April 3) afternoon in nonconference baseball action. The Pioneers move to 8-11 overall, while Frostburg slips to 11-9 on the season.
Damian Yenzi led the hit parade collecting four hits, including a pair of doubles, and driving in four runs. Alex Page went 3-for-6 with a double and two runs scored. Jared Weiss, Mike Hale and Seamus Kenneally each had two hits.
Weiss finished with a double, four runs scored and two RBI. Hale had a double, a two-run home run and drove in four runs. Kenneally doubled, scored four times and knocked in two more runs.
Gino Sabatine started and threw 3.0 innings for the Pioneers. Sabatine allowed one run on three hits with one walk and three strikeouts. John Stover (3-1) got the win pitching 4.0 innings and giving up four runs on eight hits. He struck out six. Same Mathews tossed 2.0 perfect innings of relief striking out three of the six hitters he faced.
In addition to banging out 17 base hits, the Pioneers also benefitted from seven Frostburg errors in the game. Marietta scored an unearned run in the first inning when Weiss reached on an error an eventually scored on a sac fly from Hale.
After the Bobcats tied the game in the bottom of the first, the Etta Express plated four runs in the second inning and never looked back. Marietta scored two in the sixth and seventh innings, three in the eighth and six more in the ninth.
Frostburg used nine different pitchers in the game. Travis Brashear (0-3) started and took the loss. He worked 1.1 innings and gave up five runs, two earned, on four hits. Collectively, the Bobcat pitchers allowed five unearned runs, walked nine, beaned three and struck out nine.
In Marietta's six-run ninth inning, Yenzi drove in two runs with a double into the left center power alley, while Hale blasted his third home run of the season. The Pioneers scored two on Hale's shot over the left field fence.
Marietta is back on the road this Saturday (April 6) for an Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader at Capital University. First pitch is set for 1 p.m.