WINCHESTER, Va. – No. 22 Shenandoah University ran its baseball winning streak to four games Sunday with a 3-2 victory over Susquehanna University.
Shenandoah (6-1) scored one run in the second and two in the sixth to push past the River Hawks (0-6).
IN BRIEF
Susquehanna cut its two-run deficit in half with a run on three hits in the eighth, but could not get the equalizer.
Senior
Matt House came on to start the ninth and again shut the door by working around a one out infield single with a groundout and game-ending strikeout.
The save is his fourth of the season and second of the weekend.
The Hornets manufactured their two runs in the sixth by combining two hits with two River Hawks errors to score a pair of unearned runs.
Kooper Anderson, who singled to center and stole second base, scored the game-winning run when Susquehanna made an error at first base on a
Matt Moon groundball.
Anderson had three of Shenandoah's seven hits on the day.
Matt Barnes (1-0), the second of four SU pitchers, got the win. He allowed just one hit and struck out four in three innings of relief work.
UP NEXT
Shenandoah hosts Mount Aloysius on Tuesday at 3 p.m. in non-league action.
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