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Baseball Painter Whitewashes Berea College For Immediate Release: RICHMOND, Ind. — There was some Arm & Hammer used on Wednesday afternoon at McBride Stadium, but it wasn’t the famous baking soda. It was first-year Adam Painter. With his arm, Painter (Ft. Wayne, IN/Snider) tossed an eight-hit shutout in the opener. Then with his bat, he blasted a two-run homer to give the Quakers then lead for good in the second contest as the Earlham College baseball team swept Berea College 12-0 and 8-2. On the mound in the first game, Painter (1-3) also had three strikeouts and only one walk through seven innings. “The player of the day was Adam Painter,” Interim Head Coach Joe Rodden said. The hammer came in the form of Painter’s only hit on the day, but it was his long ball to left that erased an early 1-0 deficit in the second game and sent the Quakers to the closet get a broom. With the sweep, the Quakers have won three in a row. The opener Earlham scored in the bottom of the first to set the tone of the afternoon on a sacrifice fly by sophomore Jake Carr (Richmond, IN/Richmond). Berea threatened in the third with the bases loaded and no one out, but Painter and his teammates worked out of the jam without any damage. In the bottom of the third, Earlham made it 2-0 on a run-scoring double by first-year Kyle Ripperger (Richmond, IN/Richmond). Carr had a RBI double in the fifth to give the Quakers a 3-0 advantage and later in the same frame, Ripperger added two more runs with a double to make it 5-0. A seven-run rally in the sixth ended any chance that Berea had of coming back. Carr, first-year Corey Murray (Richmond, IN/Richmond), first-year Kyle Stauffer (Kettering, OH/Fairmont), first-year Andrew Morrical (Summitville, IN/Madison-Grant), junior Alex Anderson (Logansport, IN/Logansport) and first-year Jesus Jimenez (Chicago, IL/Archbishop Quigley) all knocked in runs as the Quakers sent 12 batters to the plate. For the game, Carr and Ripperger led the Quakers with three hits each. More pitching Junior Randy Kerns (West Manchester, OH/National Trail) went the distance in the second game on the mound for the Quakers. Kerns (3-1) surrendered six hits, two runs with only one being earned, while striking out three and walking one. After Berea scored an unearned run in the second inning, Painter gave the Quakers a 2-1 lead with his mighty swing. The scored stayed that way until Earlham scored twice to make it 4-1 in the bottom of the fifth on a RBI single by senior Eric Sturgeon (Logansport, IN/Logansport) and a sacrifice fly by Carr. Two-run singles by junior Tilmon Clark (Winchester, IN/Winchester) and Sturgeon in the sixth inning gave the Quakers an 8-1 lead before Berea scored the final run of the day in the seventh. Sturgeon and Clark led the Quakers with two hits apiece in the second contest. Earlham (11-9) is at North Coast Athletic Conference foe Ohio Wesleyan University on Saturday. The Quakers are 1-1 in the conference as they prepare for the doubleheader, which starts at 1 p.m. — EC — Contact: |
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Earlham College · 801 National Road West · Richmond,
Indiana 47374-4095 |