AUBURNDALE, FL - The Benedictine University baseball team received a complete game shutout from 2017 NACC Pitcher of the Year Frank Greco to claim a fifth consecutive win in Florida.
Benedictine 4, Westminster 0
• Greco struck out the first two hitters of the game and retired the first four
• Benedictine could not solve Westminster's start either until the fifth, striking for three runs, more than enough support for Greco
• Tyler Woynerowski led off the inning with a single and Jonathan Hodo followed with a two-bagger
• The first run of the game scored when D.J. Dillon reached base on an error
• Kyle Mitter followed with a squeeze to drive home a run
• Jack Feeley finished the scoring in the inning with an RBI single
• The final run came across in the sixth
• Hodo sparked the rally with a two-out single before coming around on a single from Dillon
• Westminster never put more than one runner on base in an inning and had only three runners reach scoring position
• Benedictine has won five in a row on the trip and can finish no worse than 5-5 through the venture to Florida
• Greco limited Westminster, playing as the home team, to just three hits in the complete game
• Greco finished with nine strikeout, the last of which came to end the contest
• Greco threw three complete game shutouts last season
• Benedictine finished with nine hits in the victory
• Hodo notched three hits including a double and added a stolen base
• Dillon drove home a pair of runs, his second multi-RBI contest of the year
Benedictine (6-2) takes on UW-Oshkosh at 2:30 p.m. Central on Wednesday. UW-Oshkosh will be the fourth team on the Florida schedule receiving votes in the D3baseball.com Top 25. Live stats are available for all varsity games of the trip.
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Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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Benedictine (6-2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
Westminster (Mo.) (5-4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |