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| For the first time in their last 22 tries, Mary Washington defeated No. 5 Salisbury in a Saturday afternoon thriller, 11-9, in Fredericksburg, Va. d3photography.com photo by Mike Atherton |
Cortland's pitching allowed one run over 16 innings as the Red Dragons swept visiting Plattsburgh, 12-1 and 3-0, in a SUNYAC doubleheader. The first game was called after seven innings due to the league's 10-run rule. Cortland won for the eighth time in the last nine games. Matthew Nochowitz tossed six shutout innings for the game one victory, allowing five hits and two walks and striking out four. He's now 2-0 on the season. Cortland allowed an unearned run in the top of the seventh aided by a passed ball. Mikey Wandell, the Red Dragons' second reliever, entered with runners on second and third and no outs and recorded two strikeouts, sandwiched around a Jack DeFayette RBI groundout, to finish the game. Luis Misla, Ryan Banks and Cam Darrow combined on a two-hit shutout. Misla tossed five no-hit innings with eight strikeouts and two walks to improve to 2-2 on the year. Banks walked two and struck out two and didn't allow a hit over an inning and a third. Darrow earned his first save after allowing two hits and fanning three over the final two and two thirds innings.
Virgnia Wesleyan (15-9, 7-3 ODAC) swept No. 3 ranked Shenandoah. Game one had a final score of 5-2, and game two had a final score of 9-5. In the opener, Nick Sylvester led the Marlins offensively going 2-for-3 with a two-run home run, scored one run, and recorded three RBI, Thomas Crandall went 1-for-4 with a solo homer, scored one run, and had one RBI, and Samuel Kasprow was 2-for-4 with a double. Nick Beatty started on the mound for VWU, he pitched 4.2 innings, allowed two runs on two hits, and had two strikeouts, Ian Brady came in relief to get the win, and pitched 3.1 innings, allowed one hit, and tallied three strikeouts, and Ryan Cowell came in to close out the game and allowed zero runs and hits to record his third save of the season. In game two, the Marlins were led by Thomas Crandall who was 3-for-5, with four RBI, and a grand slam, Kasprow was 3-for-5, with a home run, scored two runs, had two RBI, and Micah Fox was 1-for-4, and had two RBI. Jack McDowell got the start in game two and pitched 7.0 innings, allowed five runs on ten hits, and recorded one strikeout, Anthony Roszko pitched the eighth inning and allowed no runs or hits, and Ryan Cowell closed out the game by pitching the ninth inning, allowed zero runs, one hit, and registered one strikeout.
UW-Whitewater extended a 10-year winning streak against UW-Stout with a 4-0 sweep in a four game series. The last two games wrapped up Saturday afternoon, with a 9-6 win followed by a 6-0, one-hitter in the second game. In the first game, Stout gained a quick 2-0 lead after three innings, but the Warhawks were able to take control of the game with a 4-run third inning with the help of a base-clearing double from Darryl Jackson. In the second game, Michael Hilker Jr. started out the game with 9 straight strikeouts. With Hilker controlling things on the mound, the Warhawks put together a four-run inning in the bottom of the third, giving them a 4-0 lead. Stout finally got a hit in the top of the 9th, but the Warhawk defense caught the runner on his way to third, only giving him a double. With two more strikeouts, the Warhawks finished out the 6-0 win. Hilker Jr. pitched 8.1 innings before allowing a hit, totaling 17 strikeouts, tied for second most in Warhawk history.
Hobart split a Liberty League doubleheader with the University of Rochester at McDonough Park this afternoon. The Statesmen won game one 5-4 while the Yellowjackets rebounded to take game two 2 6-2. On the mound, junior Griffin Snyder gave Hobart a quality start in the opener, allowing just four hits, one earned run with two strikeouts and no walks. First-year Trevor Kimball threw the final three innings, striking out three while allowing just one earned run. At the plate, sophomore Nate Garrett was 3-for-7 for the day. First-year Sean Garvin was 3-for-8 with two RBIs. For Rochester, Sammy Besztery went 4-for-8 and Colby Cruser was 3-for-6. Game 2 starter Dillon Bevan gave the Yellowjackets 4 1-3 innings, striking out four while yielding just one unearned run. Cruser finished the fifth for UR to get the win.
Arcadia mashed its way to a dooubleheader sweep on Saturday, defeating DeSales 14-4 in game one and 16-6 in game two of Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom play from Skip Wilson Field on Saturday afternoon. In game one, the Knights stormed back in the bottom of the third, crossing the plate six times, with the big hit a three-run homer to right off the bat of Eli Savitt. Arcadia five more runs in the fourth aided by a bases-clearing three-run double from Anthony Bruno to cement the win. In the nightcap, DeSales took the lead in the top of the first with two runs. The Knights tied the score on a Sot two-run double in the bottom of the first and took the lead in the second. The Knights added six runs in the third, three in the fourth, and one each in the sixth and seventh. Hunter Curley earned the win, allowing three runs in 4.1 innings.
Graduate student Luke Tanner and senior Brant Savage each drove in six runs as Babson College swept both games of its New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at Govoni Field. The Beavers took the opener 12-2 in seven innings before defeating the Lions, 12-2 in eight innings in game two. In the opener, Savage went 3-for-4 with three doubles and four runs batted in, Tanner was 2-for-3 with three RBI and two runs scored and junior Walter Sadowsky finished 3-for-4 with a double, a homer, two RBI and two runs scored to pace the Beavers' 13-hit attack. First-year Alexander Wilson also went 2-for-4 with a double in support of graduate student Greg Nieskens, who improved to 2-0 after giving up two earned runs on three hits over 6.0 innings. In game two, first-year Jason Finkelstein recorded a season-high nine strikeouts over 5.1 shutout innings to improve to 3-1 on the year with the win.
Johns Hopkins opened up Centennial Conference play with a doubleheader against Haverford Saturday afternoon, winning Game 1, 12-3 before completing the weekend sweep of the Fords with a 10-1 Game 2 victory. The Blue Jays (14-6, 2-0 Centennial) won Game 1 almost exclusively via the long ball, hitting five home runs to blow the game open en route to the 12-3 victory. Neither side was able to get much going in the opening two innings before it Alex Shane got the show started in the third with the team's first homer in a game Hopkins never trailed. The story of Saturday's second game was the same as Game 1, with the Blue Jays hitting four more homers to take an early lead and never look back en route to the 10-1 win and series sweep.
York (Pa.) completed a weekend sweep of Stevenson University with a pair of MAC Commonwealth wins in Owings Mills, Maryland on Saturday.The Spartans won game one 11-4 and completed the sweep with a 5-1 victory in the nightcap. The conference sweep is the second on the year for the Spartans as they won three against Albright earlier this year. The Spartans have now won 11 in a row against Stevenson and lead the all-time series 36-11.
Catholic split Saturday's doubleheader with Scranton setting up a rubber match on Monday afternoon in D.C. The Cardinals took game one by a final score of 12-2 before falling 10-5 in the second game. Holding a 3-2 lead through five innings, Catholic used a five-run sixth to break open the game before earning a 12-2 victory over Scranton on Saturday. In game two, Scranton scored five unanswered to take a 5-1 lead into the fifth inning. Catholic would score a couple runs to make it 6-3 but the Royals would score the next four runs, grabbing a 10-4 lead and control of the game.
Trinity (Texas) completed a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference weekend sweep with a 4-1 win over the University of St. Thomas on Saturday afternoon. St. Thomas got on the board first with a run in the top of the third, which gave the visitors their first lead of the weekend. Trinity answered with a two-run bottom half of the inning and never trailed again. The Tigers added insurance runs in the fifth and seventh, but the Celts didn't get a runner past second base after the fourth inning. Jackson Teer struck out seven batters over seven innings of work, earning the win to move to 4-1 this season. Jack Briese struck out a pair of batters over the final two innings to earn his first save of the season.
Elizabethtown closed out the Landmark Conference series with Susquehanna, as they earned a split, Saturday. The Riverhawks shut out the Blue Jays, 8-0 in game one before Etown took game two 8-3. Quinten Perilli took sole possession of the Etown home run career record as he smacked two in game two for 19 total on his young career. Susquehanna got revenge on Elizabethtown in the second game of the three-game series as they only allowed two Blue Jay hits after the Riverhawks were held to zero hits on Friday. Game two against Susquehanna was all the Blue Jays as they scored runs in the second, third, fourth, and sixth innings before allowing two Riverhawk runs in the eighth. Perilli went 2-5 with two runs, five RBIs, and two home runs. AJ Bednar went 1-4 with one run, one RBI, and a home run. Alex McClain went 2-4 with two runs, and a RBI.
No. 20 Christopher Newport scored 12 runs in the final three innings of the two games combined on Saturday as Christopher Newport surged to a pair of wins at Penn State Abington, 11-4 and 9-6. CNU improved to 15-6 overall behind another standout pitching performance from Brandon Cassedy (5-1) in game one and a come-from-behind rally in game two. Facing the Nittany Lions for a pair on a beautiful, Spring day in Pennsylvania, the Captains offense scored a run in 11 of the 18 innings. CNU scored a combined 20 runs on 27 hits including eight for extra bases. Three Captains went deep in the doubleheader as Josh Reinhold, Doc Daniels, and Jake Benedict each recorded home runs in the sweep.
While the offense was clicking from the first inning on, the Captains sophomore starter Brandon Cassedy stole the show again for his fifth win of the season. With 13 punchouts against the Lions, Cassedy took over the Division III lead in strikeouts for the season with 72. He is the first player to reach 70 K in Division III this year and one of only four players in the NCAA, including Division I, II, and III, to strike out 70 this season.
Freshman Zach Wernoski had five hits, senior Myles Webb had four hits, and four pitchers combined on a shutout in the nightcap as the Randolph-Macon split an ODAC doubleheader at Averett, losing the opener 9-8 and winning 11-0 in game two. In game one, the Averett Cougars erupted for five in the bottom of the seventh to go up 9-8. RMC put two on in each of the final two frames but could not plate the equalizer. The Yellow Jackets exploded for eight in the third of the nightcap. That was all senior Drew Ramos and three relievers combined on the shutout. Ramos pitched six innings with three hits, three walks and five strikeouts to improve to 5-0.
Beginning College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin play against Wheaton College, North Central College racked up 25 runs in the doubleheader to sweep the Thunder, 12-10 in game one and 13-5 in game two on Saturday afternoon at Zimmerman Stadium. Gavin Gawronski picked up his first win of the season in game one with CJ Jensik tallying his first save. Jackson Bland led all batters with three hits and five RBIs while Scumaci scored four times in the game. The bats stayed hot in game two as the Cards earned a 13-5 victory, moving to 2-0 in CCIW play. Starter Andrew Bollman secured the win by pitching five innings with six strikeouts and four runs allowed. Anthony Raineri threw two scoreless innings as well for the Cardinals. Offensively, Fujii tallied four hits, three runs, and two RBI while Roach drove in four and walked three times.
SUNY Maritime College boasts some of the best starting pitching in the Skyline Conference. That was on full display on Saturday, as Matt Demme and Brandon Stanley combined to pitch 15 shutout innings in a doubleheader sweep of St. Joseph's Brooklyn at Reinhart Baseball Field. Demme tossed a complete game in the opener, a 5-0 victory, while Stanley went eight innings in the Privateers' (12-4, 2-0 Skyline) 7-0 Game 2 win over the Bears (3-15, 0-4 Skyline). Demme struck out pinch hitter Chris Arcati looking, however, to finish off his third career complete game shutout. He held St. Joseph's Brooklyn to six singles and didn't walk a batter. The win was the 18th of his career, making Demme (5-0) Maritime's all-time leader.
Montclair State split a doubleheader with Ramapo College to open New Jersey Athletic Conference play on Saturday afternoon. Montclair (18-4) fell in the opening contest 7-3 and bounced back with a 10-6 victory in game two. Ramapo took their first lead in game one in the sixth with an RBI single up the middle. The Red Hawks put the leadoff man on base to start the seventh, but the Roadrunners induced a double play to prevent a rally. The home side added three more runs in the bottom of the eighth to make the margin four. Montclair had a runner on third in the ninth, but Ramapo was able to hold on for the game one victory. In game two, the lead swapped several times until Sam Angelo homered to bring in three runs to make the score 7-4 in favor of the Red Hawks. Ramapo threatened in the ninth, but Matt Pontari recorded two strikeouts and later forced a flyout with the bases loaded to end the game.
Pete Botbyl hit his first home run of the season while tallying three hits for Lebanon Valley College, helping the club sweep FDU-Florham Campus in a doubleheader on Saturday at McGill Field. The Dutchmen took the first game 6-1 while posting an 11-5 victory in the second matchup. The Devils (9-13, 3-5 MAC Freedom) opened the scoring in the top of the second inning in game one but it was all LVC after that. FDU-Florham (9-14, 3-6 MAC Freedom) got on the scoreboard first again but it was Lebanon Valley who got the bats rolling in the bottom of the seventh inning, rallying for three runs to tie the game at 5-5. The Flying Dutchmen put together a six-run inning in the bottom of the eighth, claiming an 11-5 advantage. LVC closed out the win in the top of the ninth inning, as Blair Shaffer posted a zero with three strikeouts.
Ithaca College elevated its overall record to 13-4 on the season and stayed perfect in the Liberty League at 5-0 with a doubleheader sweep at St. Lawrence on Saturday by scores of 7-3 and 22-8. After St. Lawrence pulled to within 4-3 in the bottom of the third of the opener, the Bombers scored once in the fourth on an RBI double from Tyler Pugliese and then pushed across two more in the ninth on RBI singles from Matt Curtis and Laubscher. Colin Leyner put together his second consecutive dominant outing with 12 strikeouts over 7.0 innings of work. Leyner allowed just three hits and one earned run with two walks. The Bombers wasted no time putting the nightcap out of reach as they plated five runs in the top of the first and five more in the top of the second to build a 10-2 lead.
Simpson College defeated Luther 5-4 in Saturday's second game to earn its first American Rivers Conference win of the season. Drew Carlson went 3-for-4 in the victory and drove in what proved to be the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning. Dylan Schlee earned the win on the mound and Dante Dolash secured his first collegiate save with three swinging strikeouts in the ninth inning. The Norse (13-7, 2-3 A-R-C) won the first contest of the day by a score of 8-3.
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| No. 1 nationally ranked Endicott swept Curry, 11-2 and 12-2, in Commonwealth Coast Conference doubleheader action at North Field on Saturday afternoon. Endicott athletics photo |
Athletic Conference doubleheader against Albertus Magnus College at Alumni Field. The Mariners jumped out to an early lead before battling back to take the first game 11-8, then routed the Falcons 22-2 in a seven inning game cut short due to the 10-run rule. The pair of wins extended the Mitchell win streak to eight games total, and improved their record to 6-0 within the conference.
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Aurora got back in the win column in dominant fashion in a Saturday afternoon Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference doubleheader, winning both games in Plymouth, Wisconsin against the Muskies of Lakeland University. The AU offense exploded for 21 runs in the game in the 21-6 game one victory, before Jack Fisher and Sam Harvey combined to allow one run in the 4-1 game two victory.
Kean split with #6 Rowan University, winning the opener, 1-0, and falling in the nightcap, 4-2. It was a classic pitchers' duel in the NJAC opener with both starters going the distance. In an ironic twist, it was Kean's Nolan Rowan who picked up the win against Rowan at Rowan. Nolan worked around a two out single in the bottom of the ninth to seal the win. Nolan Rowan (5-1) allowed five singles and three walks while striking out four. The game featured just eight combined hits, only one extra base hit and only one batter, Kean's Kyle Adorno, who collected more than one hit (2-for-4). The second game was playing out similar to the opener, with the Cougars having small opportunities early. The Profs turned things around in the bottom of the same inning, chasing the kean starter from the game. RU collected a double and a walk and after a sacrifice, Karson Harcourt tied things up with a double. Anthony Schooley followed with an RBI single to give Rowan their first lead of the day.
Lynchburg swept EMU on the road on Saturday winning game one 22-12 and game two 8-3. The Hornets interrupted the stalemate in game one with a nine run 6th inning capped off by a three-run homerun from Gavin Collins making the score 18-9. This was Collins' fifth homer of the year, tying his season-high mark. The senior went 2-4 with a walk and 4 RBI in the contesat. In Game 2, Nick Mattfield made his sixth start of the year for Lynchburg. In his longest outing of the season, the senior did not allow a hit through seven innings of work garnering five strikeouts. Mattfield's hitless performance ended to the second batter he faced in the eighth inning on a single up the middle. The former Old Dominion Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year held EMU to a similar line in 2022 where he allowed three hits over eight innings pitched in an 18-0 win. The score remained tied 0-0 until the 7th inning where Riley O'Donovan drove a ball to the right-center gap bringing in freshman Joe Munitz. A three-run bottom of the 8th from the Monarchs was erased by an additional four runs for Lynchburg in the bottom of the 9th making the final score 8-3. Colin McGuire earned his third save of the season pitching a perfect inning and a third.
It was a tale of two games as WPI swept a doubleheader on the road at Brandeis on Saturday. The Engineers won a 1-0 pitcher's duel in the opener before the bats came alive to pound out a 13-1 victory in the nightcap. Noah Pins threw a gem in game one to move to 4-1 on the season, he threw five scoreless innings scattering two hits and strikeout out eight. Eric DePiero got the save, his first of the year, throwing the final two frames, allowing one hit while striking out a pair. Offensively, Jacob Hand was 2-for-3 with the winning run scored, while Andrew Cash drove in the game-winner, with both belting doubles in the contest. A five-run second inning, including a grand slam from Hand set the tone for the game, as WPI wrapped up the sweep with a 13-1 win in game two. WPI racked up 13 hits, allowing just four to the Judges.
William Paterson (6-13, 1-1 NJAC) split a New Jersey Athletic Conference doubleheader with No. 19 The College of New Jersey (13-4, 1-1 NJAC) March 30 at Jeff Albies Field. The Pioneers earned a 6-2 victory in game one before the Lions took game two, 11-3. William Paterson broke game one open in the eighth with a four-run frame. The bases were loaded when Ty Kobylakiewicz grounded into a fielder's choice that allowed the go-ahead run to score. Junior Giovanni Aresta then doubled down the left field line to add an insurance run before Jack hit a two-run single to right center that made it a four-run game (6-2).
No. 4 Denison opened up North Coast Athletic Conference action with a pair of 9-0 and 9-4 wins at Wabash College on Saturday in Indiana. Will Rettig would finish his start in game one with 5.2 innings pitched allowing just four hits, no runs, two walks and five strikeouts. Relievers George Viebrock and Manny Nager combined to allow just one hit and a walks while striking out four Wabash hitters. Denison opened game two with four runs in the top of the first and built a 7-0 Big Red lead through four. Wabash mounteda comeback attempt but Viebrock came in and got back-to-back strikeouts followed by a groundout to second base to end the game for a conference sweep.
Senior DH Alejandro Soriano had eight hits – including an inside-the-park home run – to highlight a 28-hit Eastern Connecticut State University baseball attack as the Warriors extended their winning streak to 13 with a Little East Conference sweep of Plymouth State University Saturday afternoon at Dunkin' Park, home of the Class AA Hartford Yard Goats. In the first game, junior righties Matthew Wootton and Mike Furgalack combined on a four-hitter and Eastern (14-5, 4-0 LEC) amassed ten singles among their 11 hits off two Plymouth (2-8, 0-2 LEC) pitchers in a 7-2 victory. In the second game, Eastern unloaded 17 hits – its sixth straight game of at least ten and 11th this season – and junior All-America lefty Dan Driscoll fanned a career-high 13 batters in 6 1/3 innings in a 13-1 win stopped after seven innings due to the ten-run rule.
Freshman Jake Eddie hit a go-ahead home run in game one of Saturday's doubleheader as the Beavers hung on to take the opener, 8-7, before the Kohawks jumped out to an early lead in the finale and went on to win 6-1. In the opener, Coe took a mid game lead but Eddie then got the lead right back for the Beavers in the sixth with his first career home run - a three-run shot to left with one out - that put them in front 7-6. Junior Joel Garcia then singled home a key insurance run in the eighth that made it 8-6. Mark Eddie came on in relief to start the seventh and worked the final three innings to earn his first career save. It was the Kohawks jumping out to a quick 4-0 lead of the nightcap in the first after a grand slam and that was how things stood until the seventh when they added a run to make it 5-0. The Beavers got on the board for the first time in the eighth on an unearned run. They had threatened in the seventh by loading the bases with no outs but Coe (11-10, 5-2 A-R-C) got out of the jam with a strikeout, flyout and ground out. Overall, the team stranded 11 runners on base despite finishing with nine hits.
George Fox dominated the first game of the day with Lewis and Clark, giving up just one run on their way to a 5-1 victory over the Lewis & Clark Pioneers, before dropping game two, 9-6. The win in the game secured a series victory for the Bruins, a huge lift as they start to look towards the postseason. For the Pioneers, all nine batters scored in game two of Saturday's doubleheader, and sophomore Nate Kerr pitched a career-high five and two-thirds scoreless innings to record his third win of the season in relief as Lewis & Clark College baseball salvaged their Northwest Conference series against George Fox University with a 9-6 comeback win.
Salve Regina swept a pair of games from MIT, 11-0 and 16-6, with both ending after seven innings because of the 10-run rule in NEWMAC competition at Reynolds Field on Saturday afternoon. Sean Mulligan earned a complete-game shutout with eight strikeouts in seven innings of Game One against the Engineers. The Seahawks (16-2, 3-0 NEWMAC) dug out of a 6-0 hole to score 16 unanswered runs in the nightcap. Salve Regina earned its first win ever against MIT in baseball before completing the sweep. The Engineers won the first meeting in 1989, then swept two in Tampa, Florida, in 2005. Then in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2012, the Engineers won 14-2. Today was the first ever visit to Newport for an MIT baseball team
Behind three home runs from senior Johnny Knox and excellent pitching performances from graduate student Patrick Sawyer and junior Clark Churchill, Nichols earned a sweep over Commonwealth Coast Conference opponent Gordon on Saturday afternoon from Nichols College Baseball Field. The Bison won game one 14-8 and game two 12-2. Knox was weekend's top performer going 5-10 with three home runs, seven RBI, and six runs scored in the pair of wins for the Bison. Senior Ben Jerome and graduate student Jim Marasco also added three RBI on their days for Nichols. Sawyer and Churchill were great for the Bison on the bump. Sawyer threw 6.2 innings, to earn his second won of the season and fanned four batters in the effort. Churchill threw a complete game and struck out two batters, while allowing three hits in the win.
UChicago snapped a prolonged losing streak on Friday and looked to grab even more wins when they wrapped up their three-game series with Illinois College on Saturday. The Maroons had their bats working overtime in both games and got stellar pitching in each as UChicago sweeps their first MWC series of the year. The first half of Saturday's doubleheader easily went to UChicago (4-13, 3-0 MWC) as both their offense and pitching was firing on all cylinders. UChicago hit four balls that sailed over the outfield fence, two of which came off the bat of Jack Goldstein who blasted one in the second before adding another that scored a pair in the sixth. Michael Gladden and Erik Rindner also hit round trippers while five players registered at least one RBI. The Maroon bats didn't slow down but they did have to be woken up a little bit after Illinois College (14-8, 0-3 MWC) scored four runs across the first two innings. UChicago got on the board in the third with a Jackson Slipock sacrifice to center field to score Jack Sharp but the big damage came once again in the sixth frame. UC took advantage of a few Blueboy miscues and pushed six runs across in the stanza. The bullpen was on their game and saw four different pitchers give up just four hits and no runs through 7.1 innings. Kason Pelz earned his first win of the year and Grant Tenuta pitched three innings with only one baserunner in the five tally victory.
Brevard College (14-9, 7-2 USAS) secured its first NCAA DIII series win over a ranked opponent, clinching the three-game set with an 18-9 win in the first game of a doubleheader vs. no. 18 North Carolina Wesleyan University on Saturday afternoon in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The Tornados used a massive 10-run seventh inning to secure the win over the nationally-ranked Battling Bishops. NC Wesleyan salvaged the third game of the series, using a six-run seventh inning to complete a comeback over Brevard, winning 12-9 in the series finale.
Edgewood College held their home opener at Stampfl Field on a cool Saturday evening. They squared off with a Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference foe in the Illinois Tech Scarlet Hawks. The Eagles (10-8, 4-2 NACC) used a five-run second inning to take a 7-3 victory in game one, but the Scarlet Hawks (7-12, 3-3) clipped their wings in a 3-2 pitcher's duel in game two. After the Scarlet Hawks got on the board in the first with a single to right field, the Eagles offense got to work in the second inning to hold a 5-1 Edgewood lead. The teams traded runs until a solo shot over the right field fence left things and a sacrifice fly to center field finished the scoring as Edgewood College claimed game one. The second game saw two pitchers battling it out. Drew Lenz and Cameron Bracewell each had strong outings in their respective starts. Bracewell fanned nine Eagles while earning the victory, while Lenz was untouchable at times with seven strikeouts. Illinois Tech hit a no-doubter home run to left field for what turned out to be the game-winning run in the top of the ninth. Bentivegna's sacrifice fly to right field scored Brisack in the bottom of the ninth, but the Scarlet Hawks closer Austin Richardson clinched the game and a save by catching a hard line drive right at the pitcher's mound.
Thanks to late-game heroics by Sam Gossard in both games, Carleton College swept Saturday's neutral-site doubleheader against the College of St. Scholastica. The Knights rallied to win the opener 3-2 (8 inn.) and captured the second game by a 5-4 margin. Gossard finished the day 4-for-7 with a two-run walk-off single in the game one and a game-winning homer in the nightcap. In the opener, the two teams repeatedly had scoring chances, but Carleton starting pitcher Ananth Iyer and his counterpart Payton Jeffries were able to wriggle out of danger. The two sides went scoreless through the first seven frames, sending the contest into extra innings. CSS scored two in the first extra frame but Carelton had an answer. With a run in, the Knights' final hopes rested in the hands of Sam Gossard, who delivered a line drive single to left field, scoring two with Will Schnepf beating the relay throw to plate for the walkoff 3-2 victory. Game two saw another tied game in the late innings. The score remained deadlocked until the bottom of the sixth inning. With two down, Gossard took reliever T.J. Martin deep to the opposite field for his second career roundtripper. Schnepf pitched a 1-2-3 seventh to hand the Knights their second victory of the day.
Oberlin erupted for a season-high 25 hits in an 18-5 game-two thrashing of the College of the Wooster Fighting Scots after dropping the lid-lifter 4-0 on Saturday at Art Murray Field. First-year Kyle Baxt finished the day 9-for-11 with a homer, double, two RBIs, and two runs scored. The first baseman from Wellington, Florida, went 6-for-7 in the nightcap and has had at least one hit in 19 of the team's 20 games this season. The victory comes nearly seven years ago to the day when Oberlin last beat Wooster on April 1, 2017, when the Yeomen topped the Scots 7-3 in 10 innings. Current Oberlin assistant coach Tyler Schuch started on the mound for the Scots, giving up three runs on seven hits over five innings in the no-decision. Oberlin pitching fanned 16 Wooster hitters in the sequel, led by freshman Davis Hayes (2-0), who was sensational out of the Oberlin bullpen as he racked up eight punchouts while allowing just two hits and one walk over 5.1 innings. In the opener, Oberlin stranded 10 men on base in game one, unable to find a timely hit against Scots starter Corey Knauf (3-2) as he sprinkled seven hits and went walk-free over 6.2 innings before giving way to Constantine Vernadakis (1) over the final 2.1 innings.
Strong pitching, good defense, and timely hitting allowed the Messiah baseball team to pick up a pair of victories over the Eastern Eagles on Saturday. The Falcons edged out the Eagles 3-1 in Game One of the doubleheader before pulling away late in Game Two and winning by an 11-1 final score. Nathan Stein and Jason Long combined to throw 14.2 of the 15 innings on the day, allowing just two runs and eight hits while helping the Falcons to a sweep. Messiah generated just enough offense in Game One to earn the victory before scoring 11 runs on 14 hits in the second game of the doubleheader. Drew Hurst went 4-5 in Game Two and 5-8 on the day to help lead Messiah's offense.
In a series filled with big plays and clutch performances, Oglethorpe swept Millsaps three games to none Friday and Saturday at Hermance Stadium. After Friday's 2-1, 10-inning win, Oglethorpe returned Saturday to win 13-6 and 2-1. The game cruised along in a 3-0 score through six and a half innings before the last two innings saw 16 runs plated. Millsaps had the lead at 3-0 until Brick Conway started a seven-run seventh inning with a bases-loaded double that tied the game 3-3. Trey Kinnan broke the tie three batters later with a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch, then Shane Newsome added an RBI single later in the inning to make it 7-3. Millsaps rallied with three runs to make it 7-6 in the top of the eighth, but Oglethorpe put the game away with six runs in the bottom of the eighth. Carter Guarino had a two-RBI single, Newsome and Jonathan Cruz both drove one in on a ground ball, and Cooper Krause drove one in on a sacrifice fly. Quintilio picked up right where he left off. Getting the game-two start, the sophomore right-hander pitched four shutout innings with two hits, four walks and one strikeout. The Stormy Petrels had a few great defensive plays in the victory, including a run-saving grounder up the middle that Conway fielded nicely and Cruz made the putout nicely to finish the third. Newsome had another great play to end the game when he fielded a tough ground ball and made a strong throw to first with the tying run scampering home to even things up at 2-2. Instead, it send Oglethorpe to the game-three victory and a sweep of the series.
It was the Isaiah Hairston show all Saturday afternoon, as he put together a two-home run performance in game one, authoring an eight RBI display evenly divided across the Guilford's split with Hampden-Sydney, falling 9-7 in the opener before rebounding with a 10-5 victory in game two in Old Dominion Athletic Conference action at McBane Field. In the opener, junior team captain Christian Lancaster collected five hits and five RBIs, and sophomore Greer Farr had three hits and three RBIs, including the first two home runs of his collegiate career, as Hampden-Sydney split an Old Dominion Athletic Conference doubleheader on the road at Guilford on Saturday afternoon in Greensboro, North Carolina. Sophomore Jake Williams gained the pitching win in the 9-7 opener for the visiting Tigers (9-13, 3-9), the first of his collegiate career, while classmate Alex Fitz-Hugh earned the mound save. With the break-even day, GC reached double-digit wins at 10-16, 3-7 against ODAC foes. The Tigers, meanwhile, move to 9-13, 3-9 against conference opponents.