Little Giants Split Baseball Twin Bill At Hiram - Wabash College

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The Wabash College baseball team split a North Coast Athletic Conference road doubleheader Saturday at Hiram College. The Little Giants rallied for six runs in the ninth inning of game one to capture an 8-6 victory but lost game two 6-5 to 11 innings.
 
Wabash (20-13, 4-10 NCAC) scored eight runs on 14 hits in the opener against Hiram (13-21, 3-11 NCAC). Austin Simmers started the scoring for the Little Giants in the first inning with a leadoff single and stolen base. He moved to third base on a wild pitch and scored when AJ Reid singled to third to put Wabash in front 1-0. The Little Giants took a 2-0 lead in the second inning when Camden Scheidt singled to second base, also stole second, and eventually came home on a wild pitch. The Terriers claimed the lead with single runs in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings for a 3-2 lead.
 
Wabash sent 12 batters to the plate in the ninth inning to score six runs on six hits along with a single Hiram error. Simmers started the frame with a single to center and moved to second on a single by Reid. Liam Patton delivered an RBI single through the right side to bring Simmers home with the game-tying run. Evan Neukam gave the Little Giants with an RBI single to score Reid and make it a 4-3 contest.
 
Scheidt continued the scoring with a bases-loaded single. Will Phillips scored when Hiram's second baseman was unable to handle a ground ball off the bat of Reece Bauer. Simmers picked up his second hit of the inning to bring home the final two runs for Wabash to provide an 8-4 lead.
 
The six runs proved necessary for Wabash to hang on for the victory. Hiram scored twice in the ninth inning to cut the Little Giants' lead to 8-6 before Tavic Simmons came on to retire the final two batters he faced with a double-play ground ball and strikeout to end the game and pick up his first save of the season.
 
Simmons pitched one inning with the one strikeout. Sam Phillips earned his first win of the season in relief of Dylan Scheid. Phillips limited Hiram to two earned runs on two hits and three walks over two innings of work. He struck out one batter. Scheid pitched six innings and scattered five hits and two walks while giving up two earned runs while striking out one batter.
 
Simmers finished the game with three hits and two RBI to lead Wabash offensively. Scheidt finished with three hits and one RBI. Reid, Felix Velaro, and Kamden Earley each added two hits to the Little Giants' totals.
 
Wabash held a 4-3 lead in game two after scoring a run in the fifth, seventh, and ninth innings to send the game into extra innings. Earley delivered a two-run single with the bases loaded and two outs in the top half of the 11^th inning to put the Little Giants in front 5-4. But the Terriers provided the final blow in the bottom half of the inning by collecting a leadoff single and a walk followed by a one-out single to right. The game-tying run scored on the single before a Wabash error on the play allowed the game-winning run to score for the 6-5 final.
 
Jacob Bishop took the loss in relief. He pitched 2-1/3 innings, allowing three earned runs on four hits and one walk with one strikeout. Grant Stratton started the game and pitched 7-2/3 innings. He allowed one earned run on seven hits and two walks to go with five strikeouts. Gavin Patrick pitched a third of an inning with one strikeout and one hit batsman.
 
Simmers led Wabash with three hits. Earley finished the game with two hits and two RBI. Scheidt also picked up two hits in the game.
 
Wabash will play its final road series of the 2022 season on Wednesday with a conference doubleheader at DePauw University beginning at noon.
 
 
 

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May 01, 2022 at 09:00AM
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