WAUKESHA, Wis. - The Carroll University baseball team split with former Midwest Conference rival Beloit College in a nonconference doubleheader at Frame Park on Saturday, winning the opener 11-7 and losing the second 11-3 in eight innings.
Carroll, 15-13 overall, began a demanding stretch of five games in four consecutive days with the Senior Day twin bill.
Justin Baker, a 6-foot-3, 240-pound graduate student from Waukesha, Wis. and the team's designated hitter, went a combined 4-for-6 with a triple and two runs scored.
GAME 1
Trevor Benz went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs to power a 14-hit offensive attack in the opener for Carroll, which generated four extra-base hits.
Casey Mir,
Thomas Ward,
Benton Holly,
Justin Baker and
Cole Haugh each followed with two hits.
The Pioneers scored the first three runs of the battle in the bottom of the fourth inning ignited on a two-run triple to center field by Haugh, who later scored on a throwing error.
Carroll broke a 3-3 tie in the fifth on an RBI sacrifice flyout to center field by
Joey Appino and a run-scoring sacrifice flyout to left field by
Nick Angus.
Tied 5-5 in the sixth, the Pioneers answered with two runs on a clutch two-run double down the left-field line by Holly.
Carroll broke the game wide open in the seventh on a three-run homer to right field by Benz (his second of the season) to extend the lead to 10-5.
Angus drove in the final on an RBI sacrifice flyout to center field in the eighth.
The Pioneers utilized six pitchers in the contest including starter
Andrew Stekiel,
Joey Rivera,
Erik Jaschinski,
Connor Kelly,
Josh Streu and
Andy Buskohl.
Jaschinski earned the victory, pitching a scoreless seventh for Carroll.
GAME 2
Baker went 2-for-3 and drove in a run to propel a seven-hit attack in the finale for the Pioneers, who generated 21 hits in the doubleheader.
Mir, Ward, Holly, Appino and
Luke Barber each added a hit.
Carroll scored three runs on four hits in the bottom of the third highlighted by a run-scoring single to center field by Baker, a two-out RBI double to left-center field by Holly and a two-out RBI single to center field by Appino.
The Pioneers used seven pitchers including starter
Daniel Kalinowski,
Brody Meyer,
Jexel Valentin,
Conor Dunlavy,
Noah Hoffman,
Eddie Synek and
Elliot Elm.
Kalinowski took the loss, allowing four earned runs on four hits with no strikeouts and one walk through 1 1/3 innings.