PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- In baseball, sometimes you hit the ball, and sometimes the ball hits you. On Saturday, the Heidelberg University baseball team experienced plenty of both. The Student Princes beat Swarthmore, 14-2, using nine hits and nine hit batsmen to do their damage.
Heidelberg moved back to .500 with their second win in as many days. The Garnet dropped to 2-4.
Robert Hunt was the lone Student Prince with a multi-hit game, going 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI.
Adam McVicker put Heidelberg on the board in the first with a sacrifice fly which drove in Hunt.
Down 2-1 in the bottom of the fifth, the Student Princes came alive.
Memphis Cutshall walked, stole second, then scored the equalizer on a double to the gap in right center by Hunt. After a walk to
Keaton Mark,
Eric DeVore cracked a three-run homer to left -- his first of the season.
Still in the fifth, McVicker scored on a single by
Deaunte Fleming. With two outs,
Seth Scoville doubled home Fleming. Later, Scoville scored on a double steal. Hunt capped the inning with his second run-producing hit of the frame -- a single that plated Cutshall.
Ahead 9-2, The Berg added three in the sixth. McVicker doubled in Mark, then
Camden Farley singled home McVicker. Cutshall wore a pitch with the bases loaded, which forced in Fleming.
Hiedelberg added single runs in the seventh and the eighth.
After yielding a pair of runs in the second,
Brady Knizner (1-1) settled in and threw a strong seven full innings. He scattered six hits, did not hit or walk a batter, while striking out two.
Nicolas Lavelle and
Ryan Keane each threw a scoreless inning of work.
The Student Princes continued to be aggressive on the base paths, stealing six bases one day after swiping 10.
Heidelberg is back in action on Sunday, taking on Misericordia at noon.