Baseball 5/3/2014 7:41:00 PM

Wheaton baseball wraps up season with doubleheader sweep of North Park

GAME STATS 1 | GAME STATS 2 PICTURED ABOVE:
(PICTURED RIGHT) tripled off the wall in right center field and came into score on
sacrifice fly to score Kimmel in the bottom of the first. Martin settled down on the mound, but the Wheaton bats sprung to action in the bottom of the third inning. Kimmel (PICTURED LEFT) led off with a single and was sacrificed to second by Howe before stealing third base. Justin Swider reached on a fielder's choice and Marin again came to his own aid with a ringing double off the wall in left center scoring both runners. Two batters later, Jensen-Johnson (PICTURED LEFT) singled to right to plate Martin and give Wheaton a 4-1 lead.

North Park cut into the lead with a Mario Creecy home run to lead off the fifth inning to cut the lead to 4-2. Krause led off with a double off the left field wall and moved to third base on a wild pitch. Three batters later, Swider's fielder's choice plated Krause to make it 5-2 after six inning. Martin shut down a Viking rally in the seventh by stranding runners on second and third but the Vikings touched Martin for two runs in the top of the eighth. With the tying run on third and the bases loaded, Peter Moran struck out Tommy Endres to end the inning with Wheaton leading 5-4. North Park managed a pair of singles in the top of the ninth but Moran closed the door for the second time on the day to secure the 5-4 victory.

Trey Martin improved to 5-3 on the season with a seven-plus inning effort, surrendering four runs on ten hits with four walks and seven strikeouts. Moran threw two scoreless innings with three strikeouts for his fourth save of the year. T.D. Conway took the loss for the Vikings allowing four runs on six hits over 3.1 innings. Johnny Larson allowed one run on three hits over 4.2 innings of work.

Note Worthy: Wheaton's 23 wins ties for the second most in a season in program history...Trey Martin moved past Justin Zeller into third on the career doubles list with his 42nd career double in game two...Martin finishes his career tied with Zeller for most games played at 162. Justin Swider is fourth with 155 games played...Martin and Swider finished second and fourth on the career at bats list...Martin also finishes in the top ten in batting average (9th- .343), slugging percentage (5th - .575), runs scored (4th - 129), hits (3rd - 211), triples (8th - 7), home runs (2nd - 29), RBI (2nd - 160), total bases (4th - 354), hit by pitch (3rd - 32), ERA ( 9th - 3.06), wins (6th - 14), strikeouts (7th - 169), defensive chances (3rd - 968) and putouts (3rd - 741)...Swider finishes his career in sixth place wtih 187 hits, tenth place with 94 RBI, ninth place with 241 total bases, and tenth with 235 assists...Evan Rahn finishes his career second in program history with 260 career innings pitches and second with 19 wins...Andrew Bayer finishes his career tied for third with four career saves...John Jensen-Johnson finishes his career in sixth place with 277 assists...Taylor Howe finishes his career in fourth with 13 sacifice bunts...Bayer and Peter Moran each tied for second on single season list with four saves...Martin's 14 hit by pitches, is one shy of the single season record held by Josh Weaver and Josh Morey...Kyle Mellinger's 136 assists is the second highest single season total in school history.
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