The Wabash baseball team improved to 13-3 for the season with a doubleheader sweep of Edgewood College Friday night at Grand Park in Westfield, Indiana.
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The Little Giants pounded out 21 hits and scored 22 runs in the two games. Wabash earned an 8-2 victory in the opener, then closed out Friday night with a 14-2 win in the second game.
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Bryan Roberts and
Cody Cochran both moved to 4-0 on the season with victories in starts for Wabash. Roberts threw seven innings in the first contest, striking out six and walking two while holding Edgewood (3-8) to six hits and two unearned runs.
Kevin O'Donnell finished the game with two hits and a walk over two innings to go with two strikeouts.
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Cochran moved to 4-0 after a six-inning outing in game two. He limited the Eagles to four hits and two walks. Cochran struck out eight batters while allowing only one unearned run.
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Zach Moffett closed out game two by retiring all three batters he face, two by strikeouts.
Eric Murphy fanned one batter in his 1-1/3 innings of work.
Sean Smith surrendered an unearned run on one hit and two walks with two strikeouts. The Little Giant staff combined for 13 total strikeouts in game two.
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Matthew Annee,
Jared Wolfe, and
Sean Roginski each finished with three hits for the Little Giants.
Canton Terry drove in four runs in the second game, drilling a bases-loaded double to put Wabash in front early prior to an RBI single for his second hit of the game.
Bradon Nelson broke the game open with a smash to the left-center field wall with the bases loaded to the clear the bases with a three-run triple for his first collegiate hit.
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Wabash never trailed in either game. The Little Giants plated two runs in the fourth inning of game one on an RBI groundout by
Eric Chavez and a single to right from
Henry Wannemuehler. A four-run fifth inning, capped by an RBI single from
Andrew Jumonville, a run-scoring single from Annee, and two run-scoring wild pitches put the Little Giants out in front 6-0.
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Edgewood scored runs in the sixth and seventh innings, but a sacrifice fly by Wannemuehler and an RBI groundout from Jumonville ended the contest with the 8-2 final.
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Terry's three-run double put the Little Giants in front in the second inning of game two. Another wild pitch scored a fourth run of the game before Terry added another RBI with a single to right center to stretch the lead to 5-0. Wabash added a run in the fifth on an error to answer a run scored by Edgewood in the top half of the frame.
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Nelson's triple preceded another run crossing the plate on a throwing error to push the Wabash lead to 10-2.
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Tyler Downing added an RBI in the eighth inning of game two with a bases-loaded hit batsman. The final three runs of the game came on a double by
Jackson Blevins to close out the victory.
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The two teams are scheduled to complete the three-game series Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Goodrich Ballpark on the Wabash campus, depending upon the weather and field conditions. A winter storm is forecast to bring snow, ice, and freezing rain to west-central Indiana Saturday morning through the afternoon and early evening. Updates regarding the final status of the third game of the series will be available on the Wabash sports website (
http://sports.wabash.edu) and Twitter account (
http://twitter.com/wabashathletics).
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