• Adrian started the MIAA season with a 2-0 mark after defeating Olivet March 24. In a 4-1 7-inning win, Ryan Dorow (Sr., IF, South Haven, Mich.) hit his 25th career home run to tie for the all-time Adrian record. The Bulldogs followed up with a 20-4 victory over the Comets, tallying seven doubles and 10 extra-base hits in the contest.
• The Albion-Kalamazoo series was postponed and is slated for two contests at Albion Monday, March 27 and a single contest at Kalamazoo Tuesday, March 28.
• Calvin split in a doubleheader with Maryville March 20, including a 7-4 victory. The Knights then split two extra-inning contests with Sewanee March 22, which included an 11-4, 11-inning win; Calvin burst through with seven runs in the top of the 11th to give coach John Rypel is 100th career victory. The Knights then split their MIAA opening doubleheader with Trine, defeating the Thunder 4-3 in a 7-inning contest.
• Hope posted a mid-week doubleheader sweep of Thomas March 21, winning a pair of 7-inning contests; the Flying Dutchmen held Thomas to four hits in a 12-0 shutout. Hope then followed with a doubleheader sweep of Alma March 24, including a 5-4, 10-inning victory in the nightcap. In that game, Jonathan Sojka (So., OF, Glen Ellyn, Ill.) knocked in the game-winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning to score JP Batts (Sr., OF, Spring Lake, Mich.).
• Kalamazoo went 2-1 in non-conference action, including a 12-8 win over UW-Superior March 21. The Hornets tallied eight runs in the final two innings to surpass the Yellowjackets. Ian Kobernick (Sr., OF, Huntington Woods, Mich.) went 2-for-4 with a pair of walks, a run, and one RBI in the contest.
• Trine utilized a five-run seventh and a clutch run in the bottom of the ninth to defeat Ohio Northern March 21, 12-11; Ben Pritchett (Sr., OF, Fishers, Ind.) tallied the game-winning RBI single in the contest. The Thunder then split their doubleheader with Calvin, defeating the Knights 7-3 in game two; Jacob Heller (So., IF, Fort Wayne, Ind.) tallied four hits in the win.
School |
MIAA |
Overall |
---|---|---|
Hope | 2-0 | 9-3 |
Adrian | 2-0 | 7-4 |
Trine | 1-1 | 7-4 |
Calvin | 1-1 | 5-7 |
Kalamazoo | 0-0 | 7-2 |
Albion | 0-0 | 7-4 |
Olivet | 0-2 | 3-11 |
Alma | 0-2 | 2-12 |
Team |
Opponents/Results |
RV Adrian (7-4, 2-0) |
March 24 - vs. Olivet - W, 4-1 Recap March 24 - vs. Olivet - W, 20-4 Recap March 26 - at Olivet (DH) - postponed for March 27 |
Albion (7-4, 0-0) |
March 21 - at Bluffton - L, 7-3 Recap March 25 - vs. Kalamazoo (DH) - postponed for March 27 March 26 - at Kalamazoo (DH) - postponed for March 28 |
Alma (2-12, 0-2) |
March 21 - vs. Marygrove - L, 6-5 Recap March 24 - at Hope - L, 7-2 Recap March 24 - at Hope - L, 5-4 (10 inn.) Recap March 25 - vs. Hope (DH) - postponed for March 27 |
Calvin (5-7, 1-1) |
March 20 - at Maryville - L, 8-7 Recap March 20 - at Maryville - W, 7-4 Recap March 22 - vs. Sewanee - L, 4-2 (10 inn.) Recap March 22 - vs. Sewanee - W, 11-4 (11 inn.) Recap March 24 - at Trine - W, 4-3 Recap March 24 - vs. Trine - L, 7-3 Recap March 25 - vs. Trine (DH) - postponed for March 27 |
Hope (9-3, 2-0) |
March 20 - vs. Loras - L, 3-2 Recap March 20 - vs. Loras - L, 11-5 Recap March 21 - vs. Thomas (Maine) - W, 12-0 Recap March 21 - vs. Thomas (Maine) - W, 7-5 Recap March 22 - vs. Benedictine - L, 6-4 Recap March 24 - vs. Alma - W, 7-2 Recap March 24 - vs. Alma - W, 5-4 (10 inn.) Recap March 25 - at Alma (DH) - postponed for March 27 |
Kalamazoo (7-2, 0-0) |
March 20 - vs. Buena Vista - L, 10-5 Recap March 21 - vs. UW-Superior - W, 12-8 Recap March 22 - vs. Oberlin - W, 12-0 Recap March 25 - at Albion (DH) - postponed to March 27 March 26 - vs. Albion (DH) - postponed to March 28 |
Olivet (3-11, 0-2) |
March 24 - at Adrian - L, 4-1 Recap March 24 - at Arian - L, 20-4 Recap March 26 - vs. Adrian (DH) - postponed to March 27 |
Trine (7-4, 1-1) |
March 21 - vs. Ohio Northern - W, 12-11 Recap March 24 - at Calvin - L, 4-3 Recap March 24 - at Calvin - W, 7-3 Recap March 25 - vs. Calvin (DH) - postponed to March 27 |
* National rankings listed are NCBWA/D3baseball.com