GREENSBORO, N.C. – No. 18 Shenandoah University completed its first ODAC baseball sweep of the season Monday with a 14-6 victory over Guilford College.
Shenandoah (12-4, 2-1 ODAC) jumped all over the Quakers (3-8, 0-2) for five runs in the first, but needed two runs in the eighth and six in the ninth to comfortably dispatch the Quakers.
IN BRIEF
One day after banging out 18 hits in the win, the Hornets had 19 hits in completing the sweep.
Kooper Anderson,
Henry Delavergne,
Kyle Lisa, and
Pearce Bucher, the Nos. 2 through 5 hitters in the Shenandoah lineup, all had three hits.
Delavergne, who was named ODAC Player of the Week on Monday for the second time in three weeks, also drove in four runs.
Delavergne plated the first two runs of the game with a two-run dinger in the top of the first.
Blaine Hansen and
Sam Horn, hitting seventh and eighth in the lineup, respectively, also had three hits each with Horn driving in three runs. Horn's first RBI, on a single through the right side in the eighth, was the game-winner. He also had a two-run single in the ninth.
Carson Kulina (2-0) got his second win in as many starts this season by throwing the first five innings and allowing three runs on six hits and two walks. He also struck out three.
Matt House pitched the eighth and ninth to earn his fifth save of the season. He allowed one run on three hits and had a pair of strikeouts.
UP NEXT
Shenandoah returns home Tuesday for a 3 p.m. non-league game versus Nichols (Mass.) College.
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