RICHMOND, Ind. – The Earlham College baseball team pulled off an extra-innings win over Capital University in its final home game of the 2026 season.
Hayden Scalf earned the win, throwing the final out of the 10th inning with a one-pitch flyout.
Garret Odey retired seven straight batters with three strikeouts and 2.1 innings.
Austin Dick led the Quakers at the plate with two hits, a triple, one run scored and one RBI.
The Comets took a lead with three runs on one hit and an error in the top of the first inning. The Quakers then responded with two runs on two hits in the bottom of the frame.
Sean Jeffries led off the game with a single up the middle, and stole second and third. Jeffries and
Ian Bullis both scored on a double by
Tucker Williams down the right field line.
In the bottom of the second,
Evan Duncan hit a leadoff triple to deep left field. Freshman
Tyson Stratton then laid down a sacrifice bunt to bring the run home and tie the game.
Capital took the lead again on an RBI-single in the top of the third inning, and added a run in the top of the fifth and sixth innings.
Trailing 6-3, Earlham plated three runs on three hits in the bottom of the seventh inning.
Max Firestine led off the frame with a walk, and came home on a triple by
Austin Dick. Dick then scored on a balk. Bullis hit a one-out single, and
Gavin Taylor came in as a pinch runner. Taylor advanced to second on a balk, and stole third before scoring on an RBI-single by
Jake Cane.
After the Quakers left two runners on in the bottom of the ninth, Capital scored three runs on five hits, all with two outs to take a 9-6 lead.
Noah Wagster led off the bottom of the tenth getting hit by a pitch, and
Jonathan Jimenez hit his fourth homer of the season for two runs. The Quakers then loaded the bases on two free passes and a bunt-single by Dick.
Chris Barnett, who was 0-4 heading into extra innings, laced a two-run single into the center field gap to allow
Dylan Rieck to score the winning run from second.
The Quakers head into the final weekend of HCAC action facing a doubleheader at Mount St. Joseph University. Earlham currently sits atop the HCAC standings at 17-3, half a game ahead of Transylvania. The Quakers are guaranteed to be either first or second in the standings heading into the conference tournament next weekend in Kokomo, but will have to see how the rest of the weekend's game shake out to know which seed they will have.
