TIFFIN, Ohio - The Wilmington College baseball team snapped a 23-game losing skid to Heidelberg University on Saturday, sweeping a twinbill winning game one 4-0 and taking the nightcap 17-3 in seven innings.
In game one, the Student Princes couldn't solve Tyler Shaneyfelt on the mound. The sophomore, who won the second game of the Capital series on Friday in relief, threw a 133-pitch shutout that featured 80 strikes. Though he didn't strike anyone out, Shaneyfelt walked just two and scattered six hits in the nine innings. Heidelberg got a runner in scoring position in six of the nine innings, but couldn't deliver an RBI-hit.
Offensively, Zach Christensen stayed hot, driving in Dominic Depa in the second to put the Fightin' Quakers up 1-0. In the sixth, Aaron Burns drew a walk, which Caleb Scott scored on a wild pitch on the same player. After a fielder's choice, Christensen delivered his second RBI-single of the game, scoring Depa once more. The very next batter, Jacob Kalt, singled home Noah Marton for the fourth and final run of the game. The hosts got the first two runners on in the ninth, but a groundout followed by two putouts by Martin in left field ended the game.
Shaneyfelt, Depa and Christensen tallied multi-hit games for Wilmington while Camden Farley was the only Student Prince to have more than a single hit.
The nightcap was a complete hit parade as the Quakers would tally 18 hits over the seven-inning contest. Scott, who would become the program's single-season RBI leader in the OAC era (2001-present), launched a three-run home run in the top of the first inning. Heidelberg would answer with a solo home run of its own in the bottom of the first and a single run in the second, but the visitors broke the game wide open in the third. In total, Wilmington sent a dozen to the plate and tallied eight hits (including five consecutive singles) in the frame that would score seven runs. One inning later, three more runs sealed it.
Kaleb Stines put together the team's fourth consecutive quality start on the mound as he allowed one hit per inning to win his second game of the year. Heidelberg used five pitches on the game with starter Jake Hall allowing six earned runs in two innings to get the loss.
Christensen finished 3-for-5 with four RBIs and two runs scored while Shaneyfelt and Martin also had three hits. Scott was 2-for-5, accounting for WC's two extra-base hits in the game with the home run and a double. For the Student Princes, Memphis Cutshall and Kyle Mottice both had two-hit games in defeat.
Wilmington (17-16, 6-8 OAC) has won four consecutive OAC contests. The Quakers will step out of conference play tomorrow (Sunday) for a single non-conference contest with Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.
