WINCHESTER, Va. – The Shenandoah University baseball team scored a combined 15 runs in splitting a non-league doubleheader versus Immaculata Sunday afternoon.
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Shenandoah (7-1) earned a 14-13, 12-inning victory in game one before Immaculata (2-3) salvaged a split with a 9-1 victory in the nightcap.
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GAME ONE RECAP
The Hornets earned skipper
Kevin Anderson his 650
th collegiate victory with the extra inning win in the opener.
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Sophomore
Frankie Ritter had the game-winning hit for the hosts with a successful one-out suicide squeeze to plate
Justin Porter from third base.
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Porter put himself 90 feet from home plate by lacing a triple to right center off of Mighty Macs reliever Trevor Wagner (0-2).
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The squeeze was the Hornets second one of the contest.
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In the second, Porter had a one-out two-RBI triple to right center and was squeezed home by another perfect Ritter bunt.
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The second squeeze made a winner of sophomore
Calvin Pastel (1-0). The seventh pitcher of the day, Pastel worked a scoreless top of the 12
th to put the offense in position to win.
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Shenandoah had a 6-0 lead after four innings in the contest, but found itself in a ballgame after the Macs scored six runs in the fifth.
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In the ninth, Immaculata was down to its last strike before scoring four runs to take a 13-11 lead.
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Pearce Bucher then sent the game into extras with a one-out double down the right field line.
GAME TWO RECAP
Immaculata scored one run in the first and another in the third off of game two starter
Tad Dean (2-1) to take a lead it would not relinquish.
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Reliever Gabe Hollenbach came on for starter Billy Manzo in the fifth and pitched the final 4 2/3 to earn the win.
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Hollenbach (2-0) only allowed two hits and one walk while striking out two in the win.
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Anthony Ward had the Hornets lone RBI in the contest double to center in the fourth. He plated
Keegan Woolford, who led off the frame with a single down the right field line.
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Game two was also delayed by 25 minutes because of a power surge that knocked out the lights in the top of the eighth.
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