DOVER, Del. -- For the eighth time in its last eight contests, the Marymount University baseball team walked away with a victory after the Saints dispatched the Wolverines of Wesley College by a final score of 21-4.
It was another offensive showcase for Marymount's bats. The Saints scattered 13 hits throughout the contest to dominate the Wolverines. Wesley mustered eight hits, but MU's arms surrendered just three runs to secure the comfortable win.
Ryan Bergenhagen turned in a quality start for Marymount to improve to 4-0 on the season. The senior fanned four over six innings of work and gave up just one run on five hits. Alex Lemery, Ryan Maylie, and Bill Wojcik led the charge at the dish. Lemery and Maylie finished with four RBI each, while Wojcik tallied three RBI on two hits. Jordan Dickson turned in a solid day at the plate as well with three hits, three runs, and two RBI.
The Saints offense took advantage of an error from the Wolverines to scratch across four runs in the opening frame. The biggest swing of the barrage came from Maylie, who rocketed a double down the right-field line that plated Ryan Lee and Lemery. A pair of singles from Lee and Casey Baker pushed MU's lead to 4-0 to end the inning.
With one swing of the bat in the following inning, Lemery nearly doubled the Saints' advantage. The junior launched a homer over the 380-foot mark in left-centerfield to give MU a seven-run lead. Dickson and David Kurzrock came around to score on the moonshot.
Wesley scratched across a run in the third frame, but a five-run fourth inning from the Saints broke the contest wide open. Maylie struck first with a double off of the right-field wall that plated Lemery and Wojcik. A wild pitch allowed Lee to cross home plate to make it a 10-1 contest. Dickson put an exclamation point on the outburst with a two-run double to right-centerfield that gave Marymount an 11-run advantage.
Marymount tagged the Wolverines for another four runs in the sixth innings. James DiGiulian plated the first run of the inning with a single that landed in the centerfield grass. Wojcik was responsible for the final three runs of the frame, as the senior belted his second homer of the season with two runners on base.
The Wolverines added a pair of runs in the seventh inning but it was smooth-sailing for the Saints over the remainder of the contest.
Marymount continues its Atlantic East Conference series against the Wolverines with a doubleheader on Saturday, April 10. The first game of the twinbill is scheduled for a 2 p.m. start.