Bats Stay Hot as Baseball Sweeps Marathon Doubleheader at Ohio Valley

On Apr 18, 2021

PARKERSBURG, W. Va. – The Ohio Dominican baseball team continued its offensive surge Saturday, April 17, taking both halves of an eight-plus hour doubleheader at Ohio Valley, 25-11 and 5-4 in 11 innings.

With the Saturday sweep, ODU wins three of four games against the Fighting Scots, improving to 18-8 overall and 10-8 in Great Midwest competition.

BOX SCORE NOTES

Ohio Dominican’s 25 scoring output in the opener marked the fifth time in the program’s Division II era that the team scored 20-plus runs.
ODU’s 25 runs are the third most in the stretch, with Saturday marking the first time since a 24-11 win over Lake Erie on April 15, 2019, the team registered at least 20 runs in a single contest.
The Panthers’ now have the second highest single game output in the G-MAC this spring, trailing only Lake Erie’s 27-9 win over Findlay.
ODU relied on the long ball over the weekend, combining for seven home runs over the four-game set.
The Black & Gold totaled 49 runs over the four-game series, including 30 on Saturday.
ODU’s potent offense was led by junior Thomas Staab (Bellville, Ohio), who collected three of his team-high five hits in Game Two.

GAME ONE SUMMARY

Fresh off 19 runs scored in Friday’s doubleheader, Ohio Dominican kept the bats alive with 14 runs in the first inning on Saturday.
The first eight batters of the game reached safely for ODU, with a two-run home run from sophomore Alex Brill (Amherst, Ohio) highlighting the rally.
Junior Zac Wilson (Hamilton, Ohio) and graduate senior Jace Komminsk (Westerville, Ohio) also drove in runs during the first frame with doubles.
The Panthers had four runs score in the opening inning on bases loaded walks and a hit by pitch.
Ohio Valley closed its deficit to seven runs, 17-11, through six complete.
Graduate senior Roger Danison (Carroll, Ohio) launched a one-out homer in the seventh inning, which started an eight-run rally for the Black & Gold, leading to the 25-11 final decision.
The Panthers had seven different batters record multiple hits, as well as seven players with multiple RBI.
Brill and classmate Brennen Hunt (Ashland, Ohio) drove in four runs each to lead ODU, while Wilson and freshman Michael McFadden (Brunswick, Ohio) scored a team-high four runs each.
Sophomore Marshall Flynn (Heath, Ohio) tossed 2.1 innings in relief, allowing just one run to earn his first career collegiate victory.

GAME TWO SUMMARY

The series finale had Ohio Dominican with just one hit through four innings of play.
In the top of the fifth, the Panthers broke through, as sophomore David Silva (Tontogany, Ohio) launched a three-run home run to give ODU a 3-2 lead.
Freshman Lane Marshall (Wooster, Ohio) extended the ODU advantage with a two-out, RBI single in the top of the sixth.
Junior Brendan Hofacre (Chardon, Ohio) struck out eight batters over 7.0 innings. Hofacre worked around six hits, allowing just the two runs in the first inning.
Down to their final three outs, the Scots loaded the bases with no outs and scored twice to tie the game at 4-all.
Redshirt freshman Tyler Sullivan (Cincinnati, Ohio) entered in relief and worked out of the bases loaded jam, getting two strikeouts and a ground out to send the game to extra innings.
After a scoreless 10th inning, Hunt led off the 11th with a walk. Komminsk then drove in the sophomore with a base hit to put the Panthers back in front, 5-4.
Brill came on to close out the game for ODU, pitching two scoreless frames for his second win of the season.
With the game-tying run standing on third base and one out in the 11th, Brill threw out the runner at home plate off a fielder’s choice to preserve the lead.
The Scots were able to regroup and had the bases loaded with two outs, but Brill struck out the final batter to earn the doubleheader sweep.
Staab went 3-for-6 at the plate and Marshall added two hits as the pair combined for five of ODU’s nine hits in the game.
Over 11 innings, the pitching trio of Hofacre, Sullivan and Brill combined for 15 strikeouts.

UP NEXT

Ohio Dominican returns to Panther Valley for the remainder of its 2021 regular season schedule.
The stretch starts with a four-game series against Walsh, beginning with a 3 p.m. first pitch on Friday, April 23.

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