HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, Va. – The No. 21 Shenandoah University baseball team completed its regular season Saturday by sweeping an ODAC doubleheader from Hampden-Sydney.
Shenandoah (29-10-1, 14-5-1 ODAC) was an 11-5 winner in the opener before taking 13 innings to dispatch H-SC (20-17, 10-10) by a 3-2 score in the nightcap.
GAME ONE RECAP
Three runs in the first, along with two more in the third and three in the fifth, staked
Jacob Faivre to a big lead on the way to the 11-5 victory.
Faivre (7-1) went the initial 6 1/3 and allowed three runs on three hits and two walks while striking out two.
Jacob Bell pitched the remainder of the seventh as well as the eighth before
Tad Dean worked a perfect ninth to close out the win.
Frankie Ritter,
Kyle Lisa,
Pearce Bucher and
Ryan Clawson all had two hits with Lisa,
Haden Madagan, and
Kooper Anderson driving in two runs each.
Lisa hit a home run, his 11
th of the season, in the ninth.
GAME TWO RECAP
Shenandoah led 2-0 after scoring single runs in the sixth and eighth, but found itself playing extra baseball as H-SC tied it with two runs on four hits in the ninth.
The two teams needed four extra innings to solve matters with SU scratching out a run on one hit in the top of the 13
th.
Clawson, a graduate transfer from Hampden-Sydney, scored the game-winning run as he drew a one out walk, advanced to third on a
Henry Delavergne double and then scored on Anderson's groundout to second.
In the bottom of the frame, senior
Calvin Pastel worked around a leadoff double with a sacrifice, a flyout, and a strikeout.
Pastel's work in the ninth made a winner of
Tristan Everett (1-0). Everett pitched three innings and struck out five against one walk.
SU was held to six hits with
Pearce Bucher supplementing his 1-for-5 day by driving in a pair of runs.
UP NEXT
Shenandoah hosts a first round best-of-three playoff series next weekend. Official pairings should be announced late Saturday night.
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