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Baseball Quakers Face Wittenberg in West Division Battle; For Immediate Release: RICHMOND, Ind. — The Earlham College baseball team opened it final weekend of the season with a pair of losses on Saturday to Wittenberg University at McBride Stadium. Wittenberg won the first game of the North Coast Athletic Conference West Division doubleheader 15-7 and then took the second 18-6. Senior Eric Sturgeon (Logansport, IN/Logansport) had four hits including a double to become the all-time leader in hits at Earlham. With 153 hits in his career, Sturgeon passed Steve Pearson (2001-04), who has 149. The double ties Sturgeon with Derreck Parkevich (2003-06) and Bobby Ebright (1995-97) at the top of the career list with 30. All of records date back to 1974. Game one The Tigers built a 10-0 lead in the opener before the Quakers came to life at the plate in the fifth inning with seven runs. First-year Kyle Stauffer (Kettering, OH/Fairmont) got the scoring started with RBI single with the bases loaded. First-year Andrew Morrical (Summitville, IN/Madison-Grant) followed with another run-scoring single, while junior Alex Anderson (Logansport, IN/Logansport) produced a run with a fielder’s choice. Sophomore Jake Carr (Richmond, IN/Richmond) made it 10-4 with a RBI double. Sturgeon cracked his record-tying double to knock a pair of runs. Sturgeon scored the final run of the rally as a result of an error by Wittenberg (17-16, 7-9). The Tigers put the game away with five runs in the sixth inning. Sturgeon, first-year Kyle Ripperger (Richmond, IN/Richmond) and classmate Corey Murray (Richmond, IN/Richmond) led the Quakers with two hits each. First-year Adam Painter (Ft. Wayne, IN/Snider) went five innings on the mound for Earlham and fell to 3-6 with the loss. Game two After both teams produced 22 runs on 22 hits in the first contest, there was even more offense in the second game with the squads combining for 24 runs on 32 hits. The Tigers worked their way to a 4-0 in the fourth inning before Murray blasted a two-run homer to cut the deficit in half. Wittenberg added two more runs in the fifth to lead 6-2, but the Quakers responded with two runs as well in the bottom of the frame. Morrical hit a solo homer and Ripperger knocked in a run on a fielder’s choice. Wittenberg took control of the second game with 12 runs over the last two innings. The Quakers added a run in the sixth on a single by Anderson and another tally in the seventh on a hit by first-year Kyle Stauffer (Kettering, OH/Fairmont). Murray (1-4) was credited with five innings on the mound for the Quakers as he suffered the loss. Morrical led Earlham with three hits, while Anderson, Sturgeon and junior Danny Bridge (Logansport, IN/Lewis Cass) had two hits apiece. The Quakers (13-25, 2-12) finish the spring with a doubleheader at home against Wabash College on Sunday. The NCAC West Division affair gets underway at 1 p.m. — EC — Contact: |
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Earlham College · 801 National Road West · Richmond,
Indiana 47374-4095 |