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| No. 3 Birmingham-Southern clinched the SAA regular season title on Friday and celebrated with a sweep of Berry on Saturday wining 9-6 and 9-1. Birmingham-Southern athletics photo by April Gentry |
No. 5 University of Lynchburg split with No. 25 Shenandoah on Senior Day Saturday afternoon. ameron Lane reached base nine times in the double-header, Nick Mattfield won his seventh game of the year, and five Hornets recorded multihit games. Tommy Preston retired Shenandoah in the top half of the ninth and kept Lynchburg within striking distance. Collins and Fiedler recorded two more RBI each, and Lane stepped into the box with the bases loaded, two down, and trailing by two. Lane could not keep the line moving, and the visitors narrowly held on to the 13-11 victory in a four-hour marathon, snapping a five-game winning streak for Lynchburg.
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| North Central College pitcher Charlie Klemm broke a 35-year-old program record on Saturday as he earned his 24th career win in game one of the Cardinals dominating sweep over Augustana College at Swanson Stadium. NCC won 11-4 in game one and 13-3 in seven innings in the nightcap. Klemm struck out six in his five innings pitched while Shanner sat down four Vikings in his 1.2 innings pitched. North Central athletics photo by Mark Black |
No. 13 nationally-ranked Baldwin Wallace University was on the road to face the University of Mount Union in an Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader. The Yellow Jackets (25-6, 11-3 OAC) defeated the Purple Raiders (17-12, 8-6 OAC) in both games by 14-12 and 9-5 final scores. Game 1 was led by the top of the batting order as junior centerfielder Vincent Capolupo, senior All-Mideast Region Alex Ludwick, and junior All-OAC first baseman Luke Vonderhaar each hit a homerun, combining for eight RBIs, and five runs. Game 2 was led by Bryce Holt as he hit 2-3 with two RBIs and a run. Junior second baseman Ryan Guggenheim went 2-4 with two doubles, two runs, and an RBI.
Dalton Brooks and Joe Ruth led second-ranked LaGrange past Maryville 8-1 on Saturday at Cleaveland Field in Williamson Stadium. The win clinched the weekend USA South series for the Panthers, now 29-5 overall and 12-2 in the conference. Brooks threw his second complete game in his last three starts to improve to 5-0 on the season. He scattered six hits, allowing only a solo home run to Zac Graham, walked four and struck out four. Ruth went 2-for-4, including a double, and had four RBIs. The run-scoring double in the eighth inning gave Ruth 65 RBIs on the season, breaking Matt Lee's mark of 64 set in 2000. The Panthers had 15 hits in the game, Rhett Mixon had three hits, scored three runs, and drove in two runs. Ruth, McKinley Erves, Jack Layrisson, Cael Chatham, and David Smigelski all had two hits. The Panthers gave Brooks all the support he needed with a six-run second inning, five of the runs coming with two outs. The Panthers loaded the bases with no outs. Rhett Hebert singled through the right side to bring home Layrisson, who had led off the inning with a single. Nic Mirabella (3-2) retired the next two batters.
No. 10 ranked UW-Whitewater extended its win streak to six games Saturday afternoon with two victories against Finlandia (Mich.) at Prucha Field at James B. Miller Stadium. The Warhawks (21-6 overall, 13-3 WIAC) topped the Lions 15-2 in seven innings before finishing the day with an 11-4 triumph. In the opener, UW-Whitewater scored in five of its six at-bats, including a six-run fifth inning, and held Finlandia (3-25, 0-18) to four hits in the contest. Designated hitter Alex Najera posted two hits, three runs scored and three runs batted in. Left fielder Matt Scolan tallied two hits, one run scored and three RBIs and shortstop Bennett Frazer posted three hits and two runs scored. In Game 2, the Lions led 2-0 through 4 1/2 innings before UW-Whitewater plated eight runs in the fifth, including a solo homer by Nick Paget and a three-run shot by Ryan Norton. Centerfielder Zach Campbell plated one with a single and designated hitter Sam Paden added a two-run double in the frame. Vomhof capped the big inning with a safety squeeze bunt.
After dropping the first two games of an important American Southwest Conference series at East Texas Baptist University, Texas-Dallas took out its frustrations in the series finale Saturday afternoon, pummeling 18 hits and four home runs on its way to a 18-8 seven-inning victory. The Tigers won the Saturday doubleheader opener, 3-2, in nine innings after taking the Friday opener, 7-5. With the lone win, the Comets (26-10, 19-8 ASC) still set themselves up in good position to host the ASC's Red Bracket Tournament heading into the regular season final series against Belhaven (24-13, 17-10) at home next weekend. UTD would need just one win in the three-game set to finish ahead of the Blazers and host one of the two double-elimination tournaments May 5-6-7. With the series win over UTD, ETBU (28-11, 24-6 ASC) wrapped up the host position for the Blue Bracket Tournament. The two tournament winners will then face off in a best-of-three series May 12-13-14 for the ASC title.
No. 16 UW-Stevens Point (22-4, 13-3) fell behind in the the top of the first inning in both games and rallied for a sweep of UW-Eau Claire (7-19, 2-14) on Saturday. UWSP got a 5-2 win in the opener and completed the sweep with a 10-5 victory in game two. Matt Baumann collected five hits on the day, including his first home run of the season. He had an RBI and two runs scored in each game. Payton Nelson had four hits, including a home run, with three RBI and a run scored. Quin Henwood and Lucas Luedtke each hit a home run among three hits each in game two. Both drove in three and scored two runs. Jacob Lillge and Anthony Tomczak each drove in a run with a multi-hit game each.
Rochester dropped its first conference game of the season on Saturday, falling to division rival Ithaca College 5-2 at Ithaca's Freeman Field. The loss moves 22nd-ranked UR's record to 24-6 overall on the year and 11-1 in the Liberty League. Ithaca improves to 21-8 and 9-3 in the conference. Both teams are 6-1 in divisional play and are set to play a doubleheader to complete the weekend series tomorrow at Rochester's Towers Field. Rochester's offense was limited to just five hits on the day by the Bombers pitchers, Kyle Lambert and Garrett Bell. Lambert tossed eight innings and scattered the five hits, yielding two runs, two walks while striking out ten. He earned his third win of the season. Bell closed out his second save of the year for Ithaca with a three strikeout ninth inning.
Oswego State faced off against SUNY Brockport in a contest that was mainly a battle between the pitchers. After the first five innings of the contest were scoreless, Oswego State managed to score in the sixth and seventh inning to win the game 2-0. Pitcher Jacob Sanders pitched in seven innings and only gave up two hits and allowed no runs. The contest turned out to be a pitchers battle, not what you would expect for two juggernaut offenses out of the SUNYAC conference. Out of 28 at bats, Oswego's pitchers Sanders and Sean Dertinger only allowed two hits. Sanders collected three strikeouts in a game where he shut out the opposition's batters. In just two innings pitched, Dertinger collected two strikeouts in the contest and allowed no hits, earning the save.
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| No. 11 Webster University was back on the diamond this afternoon when they traveled across town to take on the Fontbonne University Griffins for a SLIAC doubleheader. The Gorloks, who won the first game of the series yesterday, were able to sweep the doubleheader today as they won the first game by a final score of 21-5 and the second game by a final score of 9-4 to improve to 24-5 on the season and 12-2 in the SLIAC. Webster athletics photo |
Marco Mannino went 5-for-5 in #7 Rowan's 17-4 first-game win over Rutgers-Newark, and the Profs completed the sweep with a 2-1 victory in the second as Eric DiDomenico walked to force in the winning run in NJAC action. The Profs won all five games in a span of four consecutive days this week to improve to 26-6 on the year and move into a tie for first place in the NJAC with a 12-2 record. Mannino, a freshman third baseman, scored four runs and had three RBI, while Chris Curcio went 4-for-5 and scored two runs and drove in three in the first game. Ryan Murphy had three RBI and DiDomenico scored three runs. DiDomenico was hit by a pitch four times in the first game, which is a new Rowan record, breaking the mark of three in a game, held by numerous players, with the last occurrence in 2016. Donald Zellman earned the victory in the first game, while Mike Shannon picked up the win in the second game, in relief of starter Braden Waller, with Christian Bascunan earning his conference-leading eighth save of the year.
Kean University split with host The College of New Jersey falling 2-1 in the opener and winning 5-0 in the nightcap. TCNJ's Ryan Goodall recorded a one out double in the bottom of the third and would come around to score on a single from Joe Oczkowski for a 2-0 lead. The Cougars (29-7) got one back in the top of the fourth but that would be as close as Kean would come as the pitchers took control of the game from there as neither team would score from the fourth inning on. Kean's Kyle Adorno got the offense going with the first pitch of the game as he doubled down the line. He would later score on an RBI single from Philip Mahlik. The Cougars added to their lead in the top of the fifth as they took advantage of some TCNJ miscues. The Cougars rounded out the scoring with two more in the seventh as Mahlik registered an RBI single and later scored on an error. Justin Diefenbach (5-1) tossed eight shutout innings allowing just four hits with one walk and five strikeouts. Daniel Keenan closed out the game with a scoreless ninth inning.
Aurora University traveled to Concordia University Chicago Saturday afternoon for a NACC doubleheader. The Spartans swept the Cougars on the day with scores of 12-10 and 10-7. The Cougars scored four in the 9th, and would put the tying run on base, but Spartan Sam Harvey would come in to shut the Cougar threat down and secure the win.
A game one pitchers' duel between Rhode Island College sophomore left-hander Andrew Sears and Eastern Connecticut State University junior right-hander Billy Oldham gave way to a game two offensive explosion by the Warriors (27-3, 11-1 LEC) led by junior shortstop Zach Donahue's four RBIs in a crucial LEC doubleheader split with the Anchormen (21-7-1, 8-2 LEC) on Saturday afternoon at Eastern Baseball Stadium. Losing 2-1 in game one before a 15-3 seven-inning win in game two, Eastern pitching held power hitting senior outfielder Joey Coro, who came into the game batting .437 on the season with seven home runs and 39 RBIs, to just one hit across both games. Coro finished the day going 1-for-6 with two strikeouts and being hit by a pitch twice. On the mound, Oldham's seven innings with 125 pitches led to just two runs on six hits along with nine strikeouts and three walks in the game one loss. Senior right-hander Bryan Albee (Killingly) pitched a solid 5 2/3 innings in game two with three runs (two earned) given up on five hits with six strikeouts and a walk to earn his ninth win of the season.
Jumbo pitchers Gavin Brown, Silas Reed, Matt Benda and Matt Donato combined on a three-hit shutout in game two as Tufts University split a NESCAC East Division doubleheader with Trinity College on Saturday. The Jumbos won game two 6-0 after Trinity took the opener 7-5 in seven innings. Brown (1.1 IP, 0 H), Reed (3 IP, 2 H), Benda (0.1 IP, 0 H) and Donato (4.1 IP, 1 H) helped the Jumbos earn their 20th win of the season in game two. Ryan Noone hit a two-run home run in the first inning to give the Jumbos all the offense they would need. In game one, Colin Mann went 3 for 4 with three ribs for Trinity. He hit an rbi single and Stefanowicz had a two-run single in Trinity's three-run third inning that gave them the lead for good at 6-5.