WINCHESTER, Va. – The Shenandoah University baseball team kept its ODAC record perfect on the season by sweeping a doubleheader from Guilford College today.
The Hornets (7-1, 4-0 ODAC) were 8-2 winners in the opener before taking the nightcap 4-2 over GC (8-9, 2-2).
Senior Vince Claudio (3-0) was again dominant in game one, striking out eight over 7.0 innings of work to pick up the victory.
Claudio walked one and scattered six hits to pick up his third victory in as many starts.
Sophomore Michael Scimanico worked a scoreless eighth and ninth to earn the save. Scimanico had one strikeout and walked one.
The offense backed up Claudio and Scimanico with one run in both the first and third, two in the fifth and one more in the seventh.
Holding a 5-2 lead, the Hornets put the game on ice with a three-run eighth.
Sophomores Billy Arens and Lew Johnson led the 13-hit attack with four and three hits, respectively.
Arens drove in three runs and John Wilt had a two-run triple in the eighth.
Sophomore Darrell Thompson (3-0) allowed two runs on nine hits in 8.0 innings of the nightcap to help complete the sweep.
Sophomore Cameron Lundmark struck out two of three batters he faced in the ninth to shut the door on the Quakers.
SU scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning of game two off of Guilford starter Drew Crawford (1-2) and added another in the third to take the commanding lead.
The Quakers scored single runs in the fourth and fifth, but never got any closer as Thompson nine of the final 10 batters he faced (allowing one to reach on an error) before turning it over to Lundmark.
Michael Paul drove in the hosts initial game two run with a single through the right side and Andrew Creamer had a single to left center to plate both Corbin Lucas and Paul.
Lucas scored his team's final run, an unearned run, after reaching on a one-out double in the third and coming home when Arens reached on an infield error.
Shenandoah begins a three-game road trip tomorrow with a 3:00 non-league game at nationally ranked Salisbury.
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