FERRUM, Va. – No. 3/3 Shenandoah University completed its final ODAC baseball series of the regular season Saturday by sweeping host Ferrum.
Shenandoah (34-5, 18-4 ODAC) was a 2-1 winner in the opener before completing the sweep over the Panthers (15-23, 8-14) with a 15-2 victory in the nightcap.
GAME ONE RECAP
SU scored its two runs in the sixth with Ferrum answering with an unearned run in the seventh.
Kooper Anderson got SU started in the sixth with a leadoff home run to left.
Dillon Partin followed with a walk, and after
Gavin Horning was hit by a pitch with two outs,
Pearce Bucher singled through the left side to plate Partin with the eventual winning run.
SU starter
Jacob Faivre (6-0) pitched the initial seven innings and allowed that unearned run on four hits while striking out eight.
Matt House pitched 2/3 of an inning, striking out one, before turning it over to
Parker Farrington for the final four outs. Farrington was perfect in recording his first save of the season.
Anderson had two of the Hornets five hits.
GAME TWO RECAP
A four-run first gave Shenandoah all of the offense it would need in the 15-2 victory.
Leading 6-1 heading into the seventh, the Hornets blew the game wide open with nine runs on eight hits as the squad sent 14 men to the plate.
Coach
Kevin Anderson's club banged out 17 hits in the victory seven of the nine starters getting at least one hit.
Haden Madagan drove in five runs,
Kyle Lisa and
Frankie Ritter three each (the latter on a three-run home run in the seventh) and
Kooper Anderson was 3 for 4.
Reilly Owen (5-1) pitched the first six innings and allowed one unearned run on five hits and one walk. He struck out four.
Brian Ferreira,
Tristan Everett, and
Ethan Zimmerman pitched the seventh, eighth, and ninth, respectively.
UP NEXT
Shenandoah is locked into the No. 2 seed at the upcoming ODAC Tournament and will host the tournament's seventh-seed, most likely Guilford, next weekend in a best-of-three series.
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