1
Shenandoah SU 34-10
12
Winner Lynchburg LYN 36-5-1
Shenandoah SU
34-10
1
Final
12
Lynchburg LYN
36-5-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Shenandoah SU 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0
Lynchburg LYN 3 1 0 0 0 8 X 12 8 1

W: Lucas Marrero (5-0) L: Bell, Nick (3-1)

14
Winner Shenandoah SU 35-10
4
Lynchburg LYN 36-6-1
Winner
Shenandoah SU
35-10
14
Final
4
Lynchburg LYN
36-6-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Shenandoah SU 0 8 1 0 0 1 0 4 14 13 0
Lynchburg LYN 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 4 2 2

W: Mitchell, Joey (2-0) L: Colin McGuire (3-2) S: Landis, Braden (2)

Baseball Captains ODAC Champ Picture
Mike Atherton, d3photography.com

Game Recap: Baseball | | Matt McIntosh '23

Baseball Wins Fifth ODAC Championship!

TYSONS, Va. - After falling in game one on Saturday, the Shenandoah University baseball program downed the University of Lynchburg 14-4 in eight innings to claim the 2026 ODAC Championship! The championship marked the first time since 2022 that the program had won the conference, and it's their fifth ODAC title overall.

SU (35-10) pieced together an eight-run second inning and scored four in the eighth to run-rule LYN (36-6-1) in the championship-winning game. The 14 runs are the most Lynchburg has given up this season to a team in a single game. Lynchburg took the first game on Saturday, 12-1 in seven innings to force the if necessary game.

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME ONE RECAP

Four pitches into the game, Jaime Padilla hit a single up the middle for the first hit of the championship day. Kyle Garrett and JP Williams received free passes, loading the bases with no outs in the first. However, Shenandoah was only able to get one run across the board off a sacrifice fly from Adham Sahebzadah.

Lynchburg responded with a three-run first and a run in the second to take a 4-1 lead. In innings three through five, neither team scored as Nick Bell (3-1) went the first four innings as SU's starter.

LYN put the game away with an eight-run bottom of the sixth before retiring SU in order in the seventh to force the winner-take-all game.

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME TWO RECAP

Anthony Arrichiello got the start on the bump in the second game of the day for Shenandoah. The senior worked around two early walks to keep the game scoreless heading to the second.

Shenandoah loaded the bases with no outs in the second as JP Williams picked up a single, Adham Sahebzadah drew a walk, and Tyler Smith was hit by a pitch. The trio then each moved up one base on a wild pitch, which scored Williams and put SU up 1-0.

Dillon Mauzy then drew a walk to keep the bases loaded before Carl Keenan, Christian Carver, and Kyle Garrett drove three straight runs in. Lynchburg got the second out of the inning thanks to a sacrifice bunt. However, they intentionally walked Jaime Padilla, which allowed Williams to plate two more runs on a two-RBI single through the left side.

Still in the top of the second, Sahebzadah caught a break and reached on an infield single, once again loading the bases. Smith then reached on a Lynchburg error, which put two more Shenandoah runs on the board. SU led 8-0 heading to the bottom of the frame.

Arrichiello came back out to the mound in the bottom of the second and forced three straight outs, keeping the SU lead at eight. Keenan led off the third with a double and came around to score on a sacrifice bunt, pushing the lead up to nine.

Lynchburg put four runs on the board with a pair in the third and fifth, while keeping Shenandoah from adding on. In the sixth, with Padilla standing on second, Smith delivered an RBI single to put SU's tenth run on the board.

Joey Mitchell (2-0) pitched 3.0 innings for Shenandoah after entering with bases loaded in the third, before SU went to Braden Landis in the sixth. Landis retired the first six batters he faced, keeping SU up 10-4.

In the top of the eighth, Kemper Omps led off with a walk and immediately scored on an RBI double from Padilla. A single from Sahebzadah, plus an error by Lynchburg, let Padilla score, making it 12-4. 

After Sahebzadah's single, Smith was hit by another pitch to put two on with one out for SU. Then, after entering as a defensive substitution, Matthew Atchley stepped up to the plate and hit a two-RBI triple down the right field line, making it a ten-run game, 14-4.

Landis stayed on the mound for the bottom of the eighth and forced a groundout and a flyout to put SU within one out of securing the game. Then, with a 1-2 count, Landis got Lynchburg to swing for the strikeout, giving SU its fifth ODAC Championship.

No active Shenandoah was on the team the last time they won the ODAC Championship in 2022, and only 11 players remain from the last team that made it to NCAA Regionals in 2023.

ODAC ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM

2026 ODAC Baseball All-Tournament Team

SP: Tyler Kaltreider, LYN
SP: Lucas Marrero, LYN
RP: Liam Stewart, SU
C: Sean Pokorak, LYN
C: JP Williams, SU
IF: Nick Stavros, BC
IF: Jack Pokorak, LYN
IF: Zach Stolze, RMC
IF: Carl Keenan, SU
OF: Quinn Madden, LYN
OF: Joe Munitz, LYN
OF: Kyle Garrett, SU
OF: Kemper Omps, SU
DH: Adham Sahebzadah, SU
MOP: Blaine Griffin, SP, SU

UP NEXT

Shenandoah finds out who will be in its regional pod on Monday at Noon. You can watch the NCAA Selection Show on NCAA.com at that time. 

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