Richmond, Ind. – The Earlham College baseball team continued action with an 8-3 win over Asbury University in Sadler Stadium on Wednesday.
Braeden Lewis entered the game in the second inning, and threw three frames of one-hit baseball, allowing one run with a strikeout.
Hayden Scalf earned the win, with four batters faced in 1.1 innings with one strikeout.
Dylan Rieck went 2-for-3 with two runs scored, one RBI with a double and a home run.
Noah Wagster tallied two RBI with a double.
Mitchell Roether went 2-for-3 with a run scored and a double.
Asbury plated two runs in the top of the first inning, and the Quakers responded with a sacrifice fly by Wagster in the bottom of the third. The Eagles then added their final run of the game in the top of the fourth.
Noah Rosato brought in a run after an infield single led to an errant throw in the bottom of the fourth inning. He later came home on a balk to tie the game at three.
Rieck hit a solo homer over the right field wall in the bottom of the seventh to give the Quakers their first lead of the game, and the Quakers piled on with a four-run eighth inning culminating in a two-run homer by
Jackson McFarland.
The Quakers host Ohio Wesleyan for a three-game series in Sadler Stadium starting on Friday at 4 pm.