The Wabash baseball team extended its winning streak to seven games with a Sunday doubleheader sweep of Hanover College. The Little Giants won game one 8-3, then followed with a 3-1 victory in the second.
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Senior starter
Bryan Roberts struck out a career-best 10 batters while working a career-high eight innings for the win in game one for Wabash (10-2). Roberts scattered eight hits and walked one of the 31 batters he faced, holding Hanover (3-11) to one earned run.
Zach Moffett worked a scoreless ninth inning and struck out one batter.
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The Little Giants trailed 1-0 in the road contest before
Bryce Aldridge took advantage of an error by the Panthers to tie the game at 1-1 in the second. Hanover added another run in the bottom half of the inning before
Matthew Annee singled home
Jackson Blevins for a 2-2 tie. Hanover answered again with a run to take a 3-2 lead before the Wabash bats took over the game.
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Wabash scored one run in the seventh and eighth innings off a sacrifice fly by
Sean Roginski and run-scoring double by
Henry Wannemuehler to put the Little Giants up 4-3. A four-run ninth inning put the game out reach. Aldridge singled home one run, then raced home on an error after a double by
Eric Chavez.
Cameron Martin drove in the final runs of the game with two RBI single to right-center field to lock up the victory.
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Wabash scored early in game two when
Jared Wolfe launched his second home run of the season in his first at-bat. Hanover tied the game in the bottom of the first with what would be their only run of the game.
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The Little Giants regained the lead in the fifth when Blevins lifted a single down the right field line to bring home Roginski with the second run of the game. Roginski singled
Tyler Downing home with an insurance run in the ninth.
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Cody Cochran earned his third victory of the season, pitching 7 innings of seven-hit baseball. He allowed one run with three strikeouts and did not give up a walk.
Ryan Thomas walked two in 1/3 of an inning without surrendering a run.
Kevin O'Donnell faced three batters without giving up a run in the eighth inning before Moffett used nine pitches to retire the final three Hanover batters of the game to record his second save of the season.
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Roginski finished the two games with a team-best four hits, including three doubles and two RBI. Wolfe collected three hits. Martin drove home two runs in one at bat.
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Wabash opens the home portion of the season Monday afternoon against another in-state rival when Manchester College comes to Goodrich Ballpark for a doubleheader. First pitch of game one is scheduled for 1 p.m.
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