Box Score 1 |
Box Score 2 Baseball
Game 1 - Lebanon Valley 3, Westminster 7
Box Score
FORT PIERCE, Fla. - The Lebanon Valley baseball team suffered its first loss of the season in a 7-3 game against Westminster.
Westminster (3-0) took a 1-0 lead in the third when David Schafer reached on an error, stole second, and came around to score two batters later on an RBI single by Justin King.
Freshman third baseman Andrew Wooley came around to score in the bottom of the frame after reaching on an error.
Dustin Deibert and
Derek Brousseau moved Wooley up with back-to-back sacrifice bunts, and he scored two batters later when
Colt Zarilla reached on another error.
Behind sophomore starting pitcher
Jimmie Miller, the Dutchmen (1-1) held the Titans scoreless over the next three innings. In the seventh, Schafer opened a six-run scoring drive after reaching on a single to left. Miller allowed five hits for three earned runs. Three runs were unearned as a result of a pair of errors.
The Dutchmen made a push in the bottom of the seventh. Freshman infielder Phillip Dohner replaced Wooley and opened with a triple and scored on an RBI single by pinch hitter
Andrew DeCew. DeCew later came around to score on a bases-loaded walk that earned
Aaron Mills an RBI.
LVC was held to just four hits but was aided by four walks and four errors in the loss. DeCew and Jake Rhody each picked up their first hits of the season;
Ryan Schwartz notched his third with a seventh-inning single to right.
Miller's start marked his debut with the baseball team. He pitched 6.2 innings, striking out two and allowing three earned runs on 13 hits and two walks over 6.2 innings.
Ian Younker pitched the final out in relief.
Game 2 - Lebanon Valley 7, Westminster 8
Box Score
FORT PIERCE, Fla. - A four-run sixth inning nearly earned LVC a win in the second game of the doubleheader, but Westminster runs in the bottom of the sixth and seventh innings tied the game at 6-6 and forced extra innings, where the Dutchmen were finally overtaken.
Senior hurler
Mike Specht made his first start for the Dutchmen (1-2). He pitched five innings, including a three-run second and one-run third. The biggest hit came by way of a two-run double by Westminster's Charles Hedland.
Jordan Witmer opened LVC's scoring with a one-out, bases-loaded single in the top of the third that scored Schwartz.
Aaron Mills immediately followed with a sac fly to right to score Zarilla, who reached on a single.
After allowing the fourth run in the bottom of the third, LVC made its push in the sixth. Schwartz doubled in Rasich to put the Dutchmen within one at 4-3. Three batters later, Witmer cleared the bases with a three-run double to right-center.
Witmer pushed once more in the eighth when he singled in Dohner to give the team a 7-6 extra-innings lead, but Westminster (4-0) scrapped for two more runs and the win in the bottom of the inning.
Witmer finished 4-for-4 with five RBIs and a double.
Schwartz, Zarilla, and Rasich finished with two hits each and a combined four runs scored.
Specht allowed five runs on 10 hits and two walks. He struck out six and ultimately finished with no decision. Freshman reliever
Lee Webber was tagged with the loss after allowing both runs in the eighth.
The Dutchmen play Misericordia and Ursinus Tuesday.
