Baseball splits with Loras in first A-R-C action
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Simpson | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 2 |
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Loras | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Simpson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
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Loras | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 11 | 11 | 1 |
DUBUQUE, Iowa – The Simpson College baseball team used a pair of six-run innings to top Loras 12-2 (7 inn.) in the first game of its first American Rivers Conference doubleheader of the season.
The Duhawks (12-7, 3-2 A-R-C) had the upperhand in the second contest and won 11-5 to salvage the split in their home opener.
Brady Held reached base in all but two at-bats and led the Storm (11-7, 1-1 A-R-C) offensively with four hits and four RBIs. Will Carlock also notched four hits while driving in two runs and scoring four times.
Trey Castile picked up his first win of the season in the opener, allowing two runs on four hits in five innings. He struck out six and walked two. Mitchell Roeder got the start in the nightcap and also struck out six in his 3.0 innings of work.
Game 1: Simpson 12, Loras 2 (7 innings)
The Storm did all their damage between two innings, exploding for six runs on four hits in the second and six runs on six hits and two errors in the fifth.
In the top of the second, Simpson loaded the bases and scored back-to-back runs on a walk and a hit by pitch. Held made the score 5-0 with a bases-clearing double to left field and Carlock put the Storm ahead by six with his second single of the frame.
Carlock added a third-straight hit to lead off the top of the fifth and scored on the next play via an error by Loras' infield. Simpson loaded the bases once again and extended its lead to 12-1 with RBIs from Bennett Wadstrom, Ian Baldwin and Matthew Marquez (2).
The Storm hit .323 as a unit and registered a season-high 11 RBIs. The win was Simpson's second straight over the Duhawks and largest margin of victory since a 26-9 win in 2001.
Game 2: Loras 11, Simpson 5
Carlock hit a leadoff home run in the top of the fourth to trim the Duhawks' lead to 3-1, but Loras ran away with the game with seven runs on three hits in the bottom half.
The Storm scored twice in the fifth and cut the deficit to six on a two-run single from Ty Cowley in the eighth, but ran out of time to complete the comeback and suffered their first loss in over two weeks.
