SCORES: G1 – Rose-Hulman 8, Earlham 2 / G2 – Earlham 6, Rose-Hulman 2
LOCATION: Terre Haute, Indiana – Art Nehf Field
RECORDS: Earlham 7-3 / Rose-Hulman 4-3

TERRE HAUTE, Indiana – For the third straight doubleheader, Earlham College baseball took a split out of a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference twinbill thanks to a 6-2 triumph over Rose-Hulman in the second game of Sunday's series at Art Nehf Field. Austin Hatfield and Michael Medley each belted round-trippers for the Quakers in the victory.

Rose-Hulman won the day's first game, 8-2, despite a pair of Earlham home runs from Brian Pincura and Brandon Lucero.

GAME 1
Rose-Hulman scored at least one run in each of the first six innings of game one, including two-run uprisings in the third and fifth innings.

Earlham answered with Pincura's solo blast in the fifth inning, cutting the Rose-Hulman lead to 7-1, and Lucero's solo shot in the eighth to make the score 8-2.

The Quakers had their chance for a big inning in the top of the sixth with bases loaded and one out after leadoff pinch hitter Maxwell Fries was hit by pitch, and Jeordan Kuderer and Tristan Taylor followed up with singles. However Rose-Hulman went to the bullpen and reliever Schuyler Wilcox, who got a strikeout and a ground out to get the Fightin' Engineers out of the jam.

Earlham starter Aidan Talarek lasted four innings and took the loss, falling to 0-1 on the season. Rose-Hulman's Ben Yoss got the start and the win, and combined with Wilcox and Michael Yager to hold the Quakers to six hits.

GAME 2
Earlham put up two runs in the top of the first to jump all over Rose-Hulman, with an Easton Embry double plating Hatfield and Pincura.

The Quakers gave one of the those runs back in the bottom of the second on a leadoff double by Logan Cody, who later crossed on a Luke Calabrese grounder to short.

Medley homered to lead off the Earlham fifth inning, and Hatfield's RBI double later in the frame forced Isaiah Shake across to extend the Quakers' lead to 4-1.

Back-to-back doubles by the Engineers' Colter Couillard-Rodak and Shaine Mitchell in the seventh trimmed the Quaker lead to 4-2, but Earlham responded with another two-run frame for Earlham in the eighth.

Pincura opened the eighth with a lead off double, chasing Rose-Hulman starter Josh Erpenbeck from the game with Hatfield coming to the plate. Hatfield went yard on the Engineer reliever Quintin Bynum, padding the Quakers' lead at 6-2.

Earlham starter Nick Carrizales went six-and-a-third with three strikeouts to get the win, while Chance Strickley picked up the save after working two-and-two-thirds innings of no-hit ball in relief. He fanned two Rose-Hulman batters on his way to his first save of the season.

Hatfield led Earlham with a 3-for-4 ledger at the plate with two runs and three RBI, while Kuderer was 2-for-4 in game two.

NEXT UP:
Earlham baseball continues its five-game road swing on Wednesday, March 24, when it travels to Anderson, Indiana, to face the Anderson Ravens in a single game. Game time is 4:00 p.m.