Teams get out on first day of Spring
UW-Stevens Point tallied five runs on Wednesday afternoon as the sixth-ranked Pointers handed the 24th-ranked Road Runners of Ramapo a 5-2 defeat at Lake Myrtle Field. JP Feyereisen secured the victory, his first of the season, throwing four solid innings in relief of starter Zach Wendorf.
| Senior Eric Lewis registered
his third win of the season. TCNJ athletics photo |
TCNJ won for the fifth time in six games, knocking off Gwynedd-Mercy 7-2 at George Ackerman Park. Eric Lewis was the story of the game, maintaining complete command to earn his third win of the season. The right-hander threw eight scoreless innings, allowing just three hits, and striking out four. Lewis set the tone in the first inning, firing 11 pitches (all for strikes) to retire the side in order and continued to pepper the strike zone throughout the contest.
Junior Ryan Taylor fired a three-hit shutout as Gettysburg defeated Elizabethtown 3-0 in its home opener at Kirchhoff Field. Taylor, who struck out five and did not walk a batter, needed just 80 pitches to earn his third career shutout. He retired the first eight batters and was three singles shy of a perfect game.
Washington (Mo.) outscored Webster 5-0 in the final five innings to earn a 12-7 win over the Gorloks at Kelly Field.
Brandeis rallied from a 5-2 deficit to force extra innings, but visiting Wentworth took advantage of two Judge errors to plate six runs in the top of the 10th and emerge with an 11-6 non-conference victory on Stein Diamond. Trailing by three runs after five-and-a-half innings, the Judges scored in three of their last four at-bats in regulation to force the free baseball.
What could have been a storybook ending for the Messiah Falcons
was nothing more than another addition to the loss column. Jacob
Sprengle's two-out grand slam in the bottom of the ninth inning
brought the Falcons to within two runs of the Dickinson Red Devils,
capping off a furious late-game rally in the 11-9 loss.
Ultimately, Messiah couldn't overcome five errors that led to four
unearned runs, proving to be the difference in the game once
again.
Dan Allen and Tyler Courter each delivered solid pitching
performances for Stevens in a 3-1, 2-0, sweep of Staten Island. The
Ducks improve to 11-6 on the season and have won five straight
games.
No. 17 Shenandoah split its non-league baseball 'Battle of the
Hornets' with Lynchburg at Bridgeforth Field. Shenandoah
was a 3-0 winner in the opener before Lynchburg rebounded for a 6-1
victory in the nightcap
| Weston Snyder completed his
perfect day with a home run to left-center to finish the scoring
for Thiel. Thiel photo by Dave Miller |
The Thiel Tomcats used at least one hit from every starting
player to have a huge day at the plate and defeat the Terriers of
Hiram 20-6. Thiel, who had eight players register at least two
hits, was led by Weston Snyder's 4-for-4 day at the plate. Weston
also drove in four runs while scoring four times. Cody Trinch
finished the day with three doubles and four RBIs.
Greg Porter won his first career game by allowing only one
(earned) run on two hits and a walk and hit batsman, with four
strikeouts over five innings and Mike Riemer and Danny O'Connell
each drove in two runs as the Eastern Conn. State Warriors improved to 4-1 on their
spring trip with a 7-1 victory over Carleton.
Trinty (Conn.) cruised to 9-0 and 14-0 shutout wins in
a baseball doubleheader against the Hamilton Continentals in NESCAC
at Lake Myrtle Park. Trinity was ed by two freshmen starters
(Anthony Redamonti and Sean Meekins) making their collegiate
debuts, allowed just six hits and one walk while racking up 23
strikeouts in 14 innings of baseball en route to their 4th and 5th
shutouts in their last six games, a Trinity record for shutouts to
start a season.
Heidelberg and Ohio Wesleyan combined for 31 hits and 24 runs, but it was OWU that came out on top, 13-11, in the home opener for Heidelberg at Peaceful Valley in Tiffin, Ohio. The Student Princes rallied for three runs in the ninth, but came up short.
Nick Conti and Kyle McElroy combined for seven hits and six
RBI's as Salem State knocked out 21 hits in a 14-11 win over the
Endicott Gulls. The Vikings' Matt Kerr picked up his third win of
the year after pitching five innings and allowing seven runs on
seven hits with seven strikeouts.
Catholic snapped its three-game losing streak with an 8-6
win over Washington College. The Cardinals scored five
runs in the first inning, but the Shoremen battled back to
eventually tie things at six in the bottom of the eighth. Catholic
then pushed two runs across in the ninth to earn the win, snapping
Washington College's 12-game winning streak.
| Stephen Denton's second
inning three-run triple tied the score 4-4. Birmingham-Southern athletics photo |
Birmingham-Southern won its 10th straight game tonight, defeating Hendrix 15-5 in eight innings at Striplin Field. The Panthers recorded 14 total hits, led by Stephen Denton and Austin Justice with three apiece. The Warriors tallied nine hits.
Trailing 6-1 entering the top of the ninth, the University of
Wisconsin-Platteville baseball team scored eight times in the top
of the ninth to rally for a 9-6 win over St. Ambrose University on
Wednesday afternoon at Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, Iowa. The
Pioneers (3-7) were limited to seven hits and just one run through
the first eight innings before starting the come-from-behind rally.
In the ninth, UW-Platteville sent 11 batters to the plate and took
advantage of three walks and a pair of back-to-back, two RBI hits
by Steve Wolke and Levi Ney.
Tico Mendoza threw seven sharp innings and A.J. Rosenthal
collected his sixth save in Frostburg
State's 6-3 win at Guilford. John Barrett had three hits and
two runs batted in for the Bobcats, who extended their winning
streak to five.
Cal Lutheran Kingsmen put up a fight against the No. 3 Kean
Cougars, but ultimately fell 4-3 after too many missed opportunities
during a matinee on George "Sparky" Anderson Field at Ullman
Stadium. Kean starting pitcher Michael Russo lasted just 3.2
innings and Daniel Hansen came on in relief, earning the win.
With a combined 13 hits and a 4-for-5 showing by freshman
designated hitter Dominic Morbidelli, UMass Boston recorded their first regular season win on New
England soil as they defeated Johnson and Wales by the final of
8-6 at Pierce Field.
Defiance evened its season record at 6-6 with a 7-2 victory over
Lourdes in the 2012 home opener for the Yellow Jackets. Defiance
never trailed in the contest and used a two-run home run from
Jonathan Murphy in the eighth to seal the victory.
| Marco Hernandez was 2-for-4
with a double and 3 RBI for Williams. Williams athletics photo |
A seven-run first inning helped paved the way for the second win
in a row by Williams as the Ephs went on to defeat William
Patterson, 13-9. Junior Darren Hartwell continued his torrid start
with a 3-for-5 day against WPU. Thomas Stephens also had a big day,
going 2 for 3 with 3 RBI, a home run, double, two walks and two
runs scored.
No.
18 Thomas More fell 5-4, in 11 innings to Hanover in a
non-conference game at L.S. Ayers Complex in Hanover, Indiana. With
the loss, the Saints fall to 8-3 and with the win, the Panthers
improve to 10-5. Junior outfielder Cam Ginder (Huntertown, Ind.)
lined a bases-loaded single to left field with two outs in the
bottom of the 11th inning to lift Hanover College’s baseball
team to a 5-4 victory against No. 19 Thomas More College (Ky.). The
contest was held Wednesday, March 21, at the L.S. Ayres Athletic
Complex.
MIT scored early and often as the Engineers put up season-high
totals of 16 runs and 20 hits, including tying the school record
for home runs in a game with five, in defeating Eastern Nazarene by
a final of 16-0. Hayden Cornwell banged out a pair of round
trippers in his first two trips to the plate on his way to a
3-for-6 day, driving in three, to lead the MIT offense.
Misericordia handed Scranton its first shutout of the season, 9-0, at Roosevelt Field. Winning pitcher Pete Doggett struck out six and scattered five hits over six innings, then gave way to relievers Brandon Barber, Ron Guido, and Matt Karabin, who held the Royals to just one hit the rest of the way.
