LEXINGTON, Va. – The No. 3 Shenandoah University baseball team continued its winning ways Wednesday afternoon with a 9-0 ODAC victory at Washington & Lee.
The win is the fifteenth straight for Shenandoah (25-2, 10-1 ODAC) and 10
th straight in league play.
IN BRIEF
The Hornets banged out 17 hits versus the Generals (13-11, 7-7) while using another outstanding pitching performance from senior
Jacob Bell (5-0). Bell lowered his ERA to a microscopic 0.50 with another eight innings of shutout ball.
After throwing 112 pitches in those eight innings, he turned it over to
Parker Farrington for the final three outs. Farrington worked a scoreless last inning, striking out two.
Bell, who now has given up just three earned runs in 54 1/3 innings pitched this season, struck out nine Generals, walked just one and scattered seven hits.
SU gave Bell all of the offense he would need with two runs on four hits in the second.
Gavin Horning and
Pearce Bucher led off with singles up the middle, and after both moved up 90 feet on a
Tyler Blittersdorf sacrifice bunt,
Haden Madagan ripped a two-run single through the right side.
Shenandoah would go on to add single runs in the fifth and sixth before breaking the game wide open with three runs in the seventh and two more in the eighth.
Madagan provided the single run in the sixth with a solo home run down the left field line.
The three through eight hitters did most of the damage on the day with that group (Horning, Bucher, Blittersdorf, Madagan,
Kyle Lisa, and
Colby Martin) going a combined 16 for 26 with eight RBI and seven runs scored. All six men had at least two hits with Horning, Bucher, Madagan, and Lisa getting three each.
UP NEXT
Shenandoah continues this road trip Saturday with a noon ODAC doubleheader at Roanoke. The double-dip will be played at Kiwanis Field in Salem.
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