RICHMOND, Ind. – The Earlham College baseball team swept Principia College in Sadler Stadium on Monday afternoon in a non-conference matchup.
GAME ONE: EARLHAM 11 PRINCIPIA 1 (7 Innings)
David Lally started the game and earned the win on the bump, and tossed five complete innings with one earned run and six strikeouts.
Hans Carter threw two innings in relief with four strikeouts and just one baserunner.
Jonathan Jimenez went 2-for-3 with two bunt singles, two stolen bases and two runs scored.
Max Fries hit a triple with three RBI.
Ethan Hear hit his first homer as a Quaker, and went 2-for-3 with a double.
Mitchel Roether earned the first RBI of the day with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the first inning. The Quakers then added two more off of Hear's homer over the Maroon Monster in the bottom of the second inning.
Reece Zonts went deep for a solo homer in the bottom of the fourth inning that cleared the scoreboard in right field.
Mac Moore hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fifth inning to bring
Phoenix Guzzi home for a 5-0 Quaker lead.
Fries hit his triple in the bottom of the sixth inning for two RBI to the first field corner. Fries came home on an RBI-groundout by Zonts.
Principia plated its only run of the game on a walk in the top of the sixth inning.
Earlham added three more runs on one hit in the bottom of the sixth inning to clear the 10-run lead for a shortened contest.
GAME TWO: EARLHAM 14 PRINCIPIA 2 (7 Innings)
Dillon Fischer pitched a complete seven innings with two runs and four hits allowed. The senior struck out eight with just two walks. Three of the four hits by the Panthers came in the opening inning.
Six of the 13 hits for the Quakers went for extra bases in game two.
Kyle Gaffney scored his first collegiate hit, and went 3-for-4 with three RBI, a double, and two runs scored.
After the two Principia runs in the top of the first inning, Fries hit his second triple of the day to bring Jimenez home. Fries then scored on an outfield single by
Quin Adelson.
Tied at two, the Quakers posted five runs on five hits, including two RBI-doubles in the bottom of the third inning.
Nate Whetstine hit a bases-clearing triple into the right field gap in the bottom of the fourth inning to bring the score to 13-2.
Luke Rykard scored the final run of the game as a pinch runner in the bottom of the fifth inning on an RBI-single by Gaffney.
The Quakers have a three-game series at Franklin College coming up this weekend, starting with a doubleheader on Saturday starting at noon.
