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Wheaton College Athletics

Jon Metz
Casey Ferrell
13
Winner Wheaton WHEATON 6-4
7
Bethany Lutheran BLCBB16 1-8
Winner
Wheaton WHEATON
6-4
13
Final
7
Bethany Lutheran BLCBB16
1-8
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Wheaton WHEATON 0 9 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 13 18 1
Bethany Lutheran BLCBB16 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 12 3

W: Hoeksema, Ty (1-0) L: Risting (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball wraps up its Tucson trip with a 13-7 win over Bethany Lutheran

PICTURED ABOVE: Jon Metz reached base in all six plate appearances in Wheaton's 13-7 win over Bethany Lutheran on Saturday morning.

Tucson, Ariz. - The Thunder baseball team wrapped up its stay in the desert on Saturday morning with a 13-7 victory over Bethany Lutheran College. With the victory, Wheaton concludes its trip with a 5-2 record to improve to 6-4 on the season. Bethany Lutheran falls to 1-8 overall. Wheaton will return home to host Saint Mary's University at 5 PM on Friday, March 18.

The Thunder recorded season highs with 13 runs and 18 hits while committing one error. The Vikings scored seven runs on 12 hits with three errors. The Thunder bullpen struck out eight Viking batters over 5.2 scoreless innings of relief. Ty Hoeksema earned the win for Wheaton with 1.2 innings of perfect relief. Josiah Longenecker allowed one hit over two innings with three strikeouts and John Schmitz struck out four and allowed one hit in two innings of work.

After stranding the bases loaded in the top of the first inning, Wheaton batted around before recording an out as part of a nine-run second inning. Kyle Trivits and Andrew Laucella each had two-run doubles and Ben Brittain recorded a two-run single. Jon Metz puncutated the inning with a towering two-run home run to left field. The Thunder added two more runs in the top of the third inning when Kyle Mellinger doubled off the left field wall and came around to score on an RBI single by Metz, giving Wheaton an 11-0 advantage.

The Vikings rallied with five runs in the bottom of the third inning and another two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to cut the Wheaton lead down to 11-7 but a sacrifice fly by Evan Ogden in the top of the fifth scored Clay Morrison to make it 12-7 and Brittain drove home Seth Meyer after Meyer's ground-rule double to account for the 13-7 edge.

Both Meyer and Metz recorded four-hit games for the Thunder with Metz reaching base in all six plate appearances. Meyer and Kyle Mellinger each had two doubles. Metz and Brittain drove home three runs with Mellinger, Laucella and Trivits each driving in two runs apeice.

Wheaton will kick off a 10-game homestand on Friday, March 18 when the Thunder host Saint Mary's (Minn.) at 5 PM.
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