Porter caps road victory with back-to-back home runs

LINCOLN, NEB. – Sam Porter smashed back-to-back home runs in the eighth and ninth innings and the Simpson College baseball team beat Nebraska Wesleyan 13-6 on Tuesday afternoon.

Porter hit a solo shot in the eighth followed by a three-run bomb in the ninth to help lift the Storm (9-13, 2-5) to their second-straight American Rivers Conference victory. He finished the day 3-for-5 with a walk, four RBIs and three runs scored.

FULL SCORING SUMMARY

• The Storm got off to a hot start and scored three runs in the top of the first. Dalton Ferrin and Sam Porter singled around an Ian Baldwin walk, and Simpson plated three straight runs on a hit-by-pitch, walk and groundout.
• Simpson extended its lead to 5-0 in the third with RBIs from Sam Campin and Ferrin.
• Nebraska Wesleyan (7-10, 0-3 A-R-C) used a pair of extra-base hits in the fifth to get on the board, but the Storm took the run back the next inning thanks to an RBI groundout by Baldwin.
• Eight runs were put up between the teams in the seventh inning. Simpson scored three on two hits and two errors, while the Prairie Wolves plated five on three hits, including a two-run homer by Carter Betts.
• Porter hit his third career home run in the top of the eighth to put the visitors in front 10-6. The Storm had a chance to do more damage with the bases loaded and just one out, but Nebraska Wesleyan managed to get out of the jam.
• Porter stepped up to the plate again in the ninth with two runners on and smashed his second home run of the day to cap the scoring. It was his third home run in the last five days and second career multi-run homer.

STORM STANDOUTS

• Sam Porter: 3 hits (2 home runs), 4 RBI, 3 runs, 1 walk
• Dalton Ferrin: 2 hits, 1 RBI, 2 runs, 1 walk
• Drew Carlson: 2 hits, 1 RBI, 1 run, 1 walk, 1.0 IP, 2 strikeouts
• Sam Campin: 2 hits, 2 RBI, 1 run

NOTES
Sam Porter is the first player to hit multiple home runs in a single game since Brady Held hit a pair at Nebraska Wesleyan on March 29, 2022. Porter becomes the 15th player in school history to launch two home runs in the same game.

UP NEXT
Simpson stays on the road for a three-game series against Dubuque this Friday and Saturday.