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Baseball Close Games Highlight End of Series With Wabash For Immediate Release: RICHMOND, Ind. — The Earlham College baseball team played a pair of tight contests on Sunday against Wabash College at McBride Stadium. Wabash won the opener of the North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader 5-3 before taking the second game 10-6 in eight innings. “We had games of really good pitching,” Earlham coach Tom Parkevich said of the four-game weekend series. “The pitchers threw well enough and deserved to win. A lot of positives came out of each game.” The Quakers led 2-0 in the first game after first-year Cal Wilson (Pendleton, IN/ Pendleton Heights) banged a two-run homer in the first inning. In the third, Earlham widened its margin to 3-0 with a run-scoring single by junior Kyle Bond (Ft. Wayne, IN/Homestead). Wabash tied the contest with three runs in the fourth and then the Little Giants went in front 5-3 with two scores in the sixth. Earlham threatened in its final two frames leaving the bases loaded in the seventh. Senior Derreck Parkevich (Logansport, IN/Logansport) led the Quakers with three hits, while junior Justin Colanese (New Carlisle, IN/New Prairie) and first-year Danny Bridge (Logansport, IN/ Lewis Cass) had two hits each. First-year Alex Anderson (Logansport, IN/Logansport) went the distance on the mound giving up five runs on nine hits with four strikeouts to fall to 0-5. After scoring three runs in the fifth inning of the second game, Wabash led 6-0. The Quakers responded by putting six straight runs on the scoreboard to send the game into extra innings. “Some of our bats came alive and we had some pop,” Tom Parkevich said. “We showed that we had the ability to battle back and they did it in three games.” In the fifth, the Quakers started the road back with four runs. Wilson smacked his second homer of the afternoon as he knocked in three runs to make it 6-3. Colanese added a RBI ground out and it was 6-4. Bond’s two-run single in the sixth tied the contest 6-6. Both teams had base runners in the seventh, but neither squad could score. Unfortunately for the Quakers, Wabash (14-10, 4-0 in NCAC West) scored eight times in the eighth to put the game away. Sophomore Corey Gareri (Thorntown, IN/Western Boone), who slammed the door on Wabash in the sixth and seventh innings, took the loss. Gareri (1-3) gave up four runs on six hits. Colanese led the Quakers with three hits in the second game as he had five on the day. Derreck Parkevich, Bond, and sophomore Eric Sturgeon (Logansport, IN/Logansport) had two hits apiece. Earlham (6-16, 0-8) returns to action on Tuesday
as the Quakers entertain Franklin College. The game at McBride
Stadium starts at
5 p.m.
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Earlham College · 801 National Road West · Richmond,
Indiana 47374-4095 |