Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 RICHMOND, Ind. — The Earlham College baseball team played its home opener on Tuesday night as the Quakers split a doubleheader with Spalding University.

Adam Painter (Ft. Wayne, IN, Snider) led the Quakers to a 3-0 victory in the first game on John Cate Field at McBride Stadium, while Spalding used a five-run second inning to take the nightcap 6-4.

"We have to take positives and negatives out of games," Earlham Head Coach Steve Sakosits said. "A positive was that we competed for two games even after we gave up a five spot in the second game. We are a young club and we're going to struggle a little bit, but we've got to keep the fire as a team, which they did."

Painter (3-2) posted his second straight shutout as he tossed his fourth complete game of the season. He gave up three hits in seven innings with a pair of strikeouts and a walk. Painter's ERA remains at 0.00 in 34 innings with only two unearned runs crossing the plate against him this season. His current scoreless streak has reached 15 1/3 innings.

Spalding's Zach Stevenson matched Painter's effort on the mound until the sixth inning when the Quakers scored all three of their runs.

Tyler Schroeder (Richmond, IN, Richmond) knocked in the first run of the rally with a one-out single to center.

One out later, Mark Dye (Munster, IN, Munster) gave the Quakers a 3-0 advantage with a single to right field. Painter then went back to the mound in the seventh and slammed the door on the Golden Eagles (7-6) to pick up his Earlham record 15th career win.

In addition to the hits by Schroeder and Dye, Andrew Morrical (Summitville, IN, Madison-Grant), Taylor Gibson (Cumberland, IN, Mt. Vernon) and Ryan McCray (Lexington, KY, Henry Clay) also had singles for the Quakers.
 
Game Two

Earlham got on the scoreboard in the first inning. Morrical led off with a double to right and Schroeder followed with a bunt single. Ted Williams (Harper Woods, MI, Grosse Pointe North) was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Dye's sacrifice fly made it 1-0.

Unfortunately for the Quakers, they were unable to score any more runs in the inning.

In the top of the second, Spalding chased Earlham starting pitcher Justin Broach (Centerville, OH, Centerville) from the mound as the Golden Eagles grabbed a 5-1 lead.

Earlham had runners reach third base over the next three innings, but the Quakers could not score.

In the fifth, Hayes blasted a long two-run homer to right field as the Quakers got closer at 5-3.

The Quakers added another run in the sixth when Williams was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. That threat ended with the Quakers unable to score.

Spalding scored in the top of the seventh to take a two-run lead, while the Quakers couldn't put together a rally in the bottom of the frame.

Morrical and Hayes led the Quakers with two hits apiece.

Zach Lee (Lynn, IN, Randolph Southern), Jake Elmlinger (Hamilton, OH, Fairfield), T. J. Plummer (Aurora, IN, South Dearborn) and Colton Miller (Auburn, IN, Dekalb) followed Broach (2-1) on the mound, after he surrendered the five runs in the second. Of the group, Plummer gave up the other run.

Earlham (6-5) begins its Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference slate on Friday at Franklin College. The opener of the three-game series is a 9-inning affair starting at 4 p.m. The two teams meet for a doubleheader on Saturday at Franklin with the first contest beginning at noon.  

Game One Box Score

Game Two Box Score