WINCHESTER, Va. – No. 6/35 Shenandoah University ran its season-opening winning streak to 10 games Sunday afternoon by sweeping a non-league baseball doubleheader from CCNY.
The Hornets (10-0) were 14-0 winners in the opener before taking the nightcap 13-5.
Coach Kevin Anderson's club had a combined 18 hits in the sweep and saw starting pitchers Colin Morse and Zach Teeple throw 12 scoreless innings and allow just five hits.
In game one, Shenandoah plated seven runs on three hits, five walks and one Beavers (0-4) error in the bottom of the first. Jake Loew, Luke Nussman, Donnie Forgacs, Michael Cruz and Tristan Baker all had RBIs in the frame with Forgacs driving in a pair with a single up the middle.
The Hornets added three runs each in the fourth and fifth to give Morse (2-0) more than enough offense. Morse pitched the first six innings of the seven-inning contest, scattering three hits and two walks while striking out seven. He struck out the final three hitters he faced.
The only trouble Morse got himself into was in the fourth, when CCNY loaded the bases with one out on two hits and a walk. The righty then induced a 4-6-3 double play to end the threat.
Senior Ryan Kinter pitched the seventh and struck out two with one hit allowed and one walk.
Forgacs finished with four RBI for the game and Nussman three.
SU scored three runs in first inning of game two, six in the second and two more in the third to make the outcome academic.
Loew, who saw his streak of at least one home run end at four games in the opener, started a new streak with a grand slam in the bottom of the second in game two.
Teeple (3-0) scattered two hits, walked one and struck out six in 6.0 innings of work. After reliever CJ Morton ran into so trouble in the seventh, southpaw Matt Burns got the next five outs to set up senior Steve Jones to close it out in the ninth.
Baker, Abel Arocho and Nate Loman all had two hits in the nightcap.
Shenandoah takes to the road Tuesday for a 3 p.m. non-league game at Dickinson.
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