Baseball

Quakers Open NCAC Series With Wabash

For Immediate Release:
April 1, 2006

RICHMOND, Ind. — The Earlham College baseball team battled Wabash College in a North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at McBride Stadium.

Wabash won the opener 10-6 in eight innings before taking the second contest 17-1.

Junior Kyle Bond (Ft. Wayne, IN/Homestead) sent the first game to extra innings with a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh, but it wasn’t enough.

With the Quakers trailing 6-4, junior Justin Colanese (New Carlisle, IN/New Prairie) walked to begin the seventh. One out later, Bond smashed his long ball over the fence to tie the contest. In the top the eighth, however, Wabash (12-10, 2-0 in NCAC West) put the game away with four runs.

Earlham was forced to comeback early in the contest as Wabash scored four times in the first inning. The Quakers scored three times in the third to make it 4-3. First-year Cal Wilson (Pendleton, IN/ Pendleton Heights) knocked in two runs with a single. Sophomore Eric Sturgeon (Logansport, IN/Logansport) finished the rally with a run-scoring single.

After Wabash added a pair of runs in the fourth, the Quakers scored a run on a double by Sturgeon in the fifth to make it 6-4 to set the stage for Bond’s dramatic homer.

Senior Derreck Parkevich (Logansport, IN/Logansport) worked into the eighth inning on the mound before leaving the contest. Parkevich (3-2) gave up 10 hits and eight runs with only four being earned. He also had six strikeouts. Wilson and Sturgeon had two hits each for the Quakers.

Earlham started the second game with a lead as Wilson’s sacrifice fly gave the Quakers a 1-0 advantage. Wabash scored two runs in the second and three more in the third to gain its insurmountable margin.

Sturgeon (0-5) pitched three innings and suffered the loss. Wilson, Sturgeon, junior Kyle Gallagher (Richmond, IN/Richmond) and junior Brenton Robinson (Merrillville, IN/ Merrillville) had one hits each to lead Earlham.

Earlham (6-14, 0-6) is back in action Sunday as the Quakers finish the Wabash series with a doubleheader at McBride Stadium. The first game is at 1 p.m.
Game One Box Score. Game Two Box Score.

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