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Wheaton College Athletics

Joel Pierce
Brett Albaugh
6
Winner Washington College WC 10-0
1
Wheaton (Ill.) WHEATON 7-1
Winner
Washington College WC
10-0
6
Final
1
Wheaton (Ill.) WHEATON
7-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Washington College WC 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 6 10 0
Wheaton (Ill.) WHEATON 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 1

W: M Smith (3-0) L: McCraith, Michael (2-1)

1
Wheaton (Ill.) WHEATON 7-2
8
Winner Washington College WC 11-0
Wheaton (Ill.) WHEATON
7-2
1
Final
8
Washington College WC
11-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Wheaton (Ill.) WHEATON 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 0
Washington College WC 2 5 0 0 0 1 X 8 13 0

W: J Frankel (2-0) L: Bolhuis, Christian (2-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Thunder baseball swept in doubleheader by Washington College

Fort Pierce, Fla. - The Thunder baseball team saw its season-opening seven-game win streak ended on Friday afternoon with a pair of losses to Washington Collge (Md.). Both teams entered the day with unbeaten records, with Wheaton falling to 7-2 on the season while the Shoremen improved to 11-0 on the year. Wheaton will close its Spring Break trip tomorrow morning with a 10 am (ET) first pitch against Mount Saint Vincent.

Friday's lidlifter saw a pitching duel early with neither pitcher allowing a run in the opening two innings. Washington struck first in the top of the third inning starting with a one-out double by Joe Otto that was followed two batters later by a two-out double by Ben Ruvo. Wheaton countered in the home half of the inning when Noah Ritchie was walked and moved up on a single by Matthias Haggerty. Following a double steal, Nick Mailman plated Ritchie with a ground out to tie the score.

Michael McCraith and Shoreman starter Mike Smith dominated the game on the mound as the score remained tied until the sixth inning when the Shoremen were able to scratch across another run on a two-out hit to take a 2-1 lead. Washington broke the game open wih three-straight hits to start the top of the seventh inning, finally chasing McCraith and pulling away for the 6-1 victory. McCraith allowed six runs, five earned, on eight hits and struck out 11 Shoremen over 6.1 innings of work. Joel Pierce tallied two of Wheaton's four hits off of Mike Smith who struck out four batters in his complete game victory.

Washington's offense kept rolling to start game two, plating two runs in the bottom of the first and another five in the bottom of the second inning, using six hits including two doubles and a home run to take a 7-0 lead. Wheaton got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth inning on Mailman's leadoff triple and a sacrifice fly by Evan Ogden. Washington added their final run on a two-out double in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Christian Bolhuis took the loss for Wheaton, allowing seven runs in two innings. Luke Kram held the Shoremen to one run on five hits and five strikeouts in four innings of relief work.
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