Senior shortstop Eric Chavez delivered a walk-off RBI double to give Wabash a 6-5 victory in game one of its Sunday doubleheader against Hanover College in game one of the Little Giants' Sunday home doubleheader against the Panthers. Freshman pitcher Dylan Scheid completed the sweep with a seven-inning, five-hit performance in game two to help Wabash to a 6-2 victory and 2019 home-opening series win.
 
Wabash (5-7) rebounded from Saturday's loss to Hanover (6-5) thanks in part to a strong pitching performance by starter Kase Lawson in game one. Lawson worked six innings and scattered 11 hits while holding Hanover to three runs. Chavez drove in his first of three runs in the second inning of game one with a single to right field to bring home Erich Lange and tie the game at 1-1 after the Panthers scored in the top half of the second. Hanover regained the lead with one run in the fifth inning and moved in front 3-1 with another in the sixth.
 
Sean Roginski cut the visitor's lead to 3-2 with his RBI single in the sixth inning to score Cameron Martin. The Little Giants tie the score at 3-3 with an RBI single from Canton Terry in the seventh to bring home Matthew Annee after he reached base with a leadoff single in the inning.
 
Joe House opened the eighth inning with a pinch-hit single. Nick Chao entered the game as a pinch runner and raced home on a single by Roginski to give Wabash a 4-3 lead. Parker Noll had kept the Hanover offense in check with an inning-and-a-third of relief work. He limited the Panthers to two hits while recording three strikeouts. Kevin O'Donnell picked up the final two outs of the eighth inning and left in line to earn the win heading into the ninth.
 
Zach Moffett came in to try and earn the save, but Hanover rallied for a pair of runs in the ninth inning to reclaim the 5-4 lead. Jared Wolfe started the ninth inning for the Little Giants with a walk with Lange following with single to put runners on first and second. Joey Martoccio came in to pinch run for Lange and moved into scoring position as the winning run after Canton Terry was hit by a pitch to bring Chavez back to the plate with the bases loaded and no outs in the inning.
 
Chavez, who had already produced three hits and one RBI in his four previous at bats, drilled a pitch into right field to end the game and give the Little Giants the victory. Moffett earned the win after pitching one inning and allowing two runs on two hits and one walk.
 
Wabash recorded 12 hits in game one lead by the four-hit effort by Chavez. Lange and Roginski each added two hits, while Jackson Blevins, Annee, Terry, and House picked up one hit apiece.
 
Scheid earned his first collegiate win in his fourth start of the season. The freshman left-hander pitched seven strong innings, limiting Hanover to two runs on five hits. He struck out six batters and walked only one. Logan Butrum worked a scoreless 1-2/3 innings of two-hit, one walk baseball to set the table for O'Donnell to enter the game and face the tying run with two outs and bases loaded in the top of the ninth. The senior struck out pinch hitter Luke Hernadez on a called third strike for O'Donnell's first save of the season and second of his career.
 
The Little Giants jumped out to the early lead in game two when Blevins singled and came around to score on an error by Hanover. Andrew Jumonville drove in two more runs in the third to provide a 3-0 lead for the Little Giants before Hanover answered with its two runs in the top of the fourth.
 
Wabash answered with two runs of its own in the fifth inning off a two-run single by Terry. The Little Giants picked up an insurance run in the seventh when Blevins scored from third on a wild pitch.
 
Blevins led the offense in game two with three of the Little Giants' seven base hits. Jumonville added two hits to the totals, with Chavez and Terry each collecting one hit.
 
Wabash is back in action Tuesday, March 19 with a home doubleheader against Manchester University beginning at 1 p.m.