Baseball Earns Weekend Sweep of Madonna

LIMA, OH - After knocking off the Crusaders 2-0 on Saturday, UNOH finished off the weekend sweep with two wins on Sunday.

The Racers did all of their work in the first two innings of game one, including seven runs with two-outs, plating five in the first and eight in the second for a 13-1 win. Despite just one extra base hit, UNOH racked up 13 hits and eleven RBI in the game. They were led by Darius Freeman with a season best 4-4 with one RBI. Tim Hanible finished 3-4 with three RBI and Eliomar Otero went 2-3 with one. 

AJ Buchman (2-2) picked up the win with one run off three hits over four innings of work striking out five and walking one. Jeremy Yurcak earned a save tossing three innings of one-hit ball with three strikeouts and no walks.

The UNOH bats stayed hot into game two where they scored multiple runs in five of six at-bats including three 4+ run innings. Madonna scored one in the first and one in the fifth but found some offensive rhythm with five in the sixth. The Crusader comeback fell short, though, as Eliott Traver struck out the side in the seventh to complete a 17-7 win, the team's eleventh in-a-row.

Noah Matheson, Eliomar Otero and Tyler Grigalis each had three hits in the game. Otero led the team with three RBI while Grigalis, Darius Freeman, Nolan Hull and Tim Hanible each had two. Freeman extended his team-leading hit streak to 13 games going 2-4 and Hanible logged his sixth multi-hit game in the last seven finishing 2-2.

Will Myklebust (3-1) earned the win after five innings pitched surrendering five runs, four earned, on eight hits with one walk and one strikeout. Nick Soller threw just a third of an inning before Eliott Traver took over for the final one and two-thirds without a hit. Traver struck four of eight batters faced, including the final three, giving up just one walk.

UNOH will stay home for two against Aquinas (12-12, 4-2) on Friday before heading to Lawrence Tech (13-8, 5-1) for two on Saturday.