WINCHESTER, Va. - No. 25/25 Shenandoah University baseball earned its third straight ODAC home baseball split of the season by trading a pair of wins with Lynchburg College Saturday afternoon.
Shenandoah (21-9, 11-7 ODAC) battled back to take game two 8-7 after Lynchburg (18-15-1, 8-8-1) was an 11-0 winner in the opener.
Sophomore Michael Paul drove in the game-winning run with a two-out double to right center in the bottom of the eighth.
Paul plated classmate Corbin Lucas, who had singled to right and advanced on a throw just prior to Paul coming to the plate.
SU needed that eighth run as LC battled back from a 7-3 deficit on a Jake Tanner grand slam in the top of the frame.
The man who gave up that grand slam, freshman Michael Scimanico (5-0), then settled down to get through the eighth and worked a scoreless ninth to earn the victory.
Scimanico struck out six in 3 2/3 innings of relief work.
Lucas, Paul, John Wilt, Dan Powers and Andrew Creamer all had two hits for coach Kevin Anderson's club in game two.
In game one, Lynchburg starter Martin Henderlite (8-1) scattered seven hits and two walks against five strikeouts in 7.0 innings to keep SU off the board.
The LC Hornets scored three runs in the second and single runs in the third thru sixth innings to take a commanding lead and then scored twice in both the eighth and ninth.
Creamer paced the hosts with two hits in three at-bats.
Shenandoah hosts Mary Washington on Sunday in a 1:00 Senior Day contest.
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