FORT PIERCE, Fla. – After a silent four innings baseball, the Kenyon College Lords lineup erupted for six runs in the top of the fifth inning during Tuesday's game against the Immaculata University Mighty Macs. The Lords kept pouring it on over the next few innings and wound up with a 15-7 victory.
Immaculata starting pitcher Gabe Hollenbach held the Lords at bay for a while, but then surrendered six runs on five hits and an error. He ended up taking the loss and became one of eight Immaculata pitchers that Kenyon battered.
In that big fifth inning for Kenyon,
Kyle Dwyer had an RBI triple,
Andrew Rabinowitz hit an RBI single,
Patrick O'Leary launch a three-run homer and
J.J. Conway delivered an RBI double to chase Hollenbach from the mound.
Meanwhile, Kenyon starting pitcher
Zach Frizzera worked through the first four innings and managed to yield just one run, despite giving up three hits and walking five batters. When
Joel Biery came on in the bottom of the fifth inning to relief Frizzera, he was roughed up by the Mighty Macs. They quickly loaded the bases off Biery and set the stage for Joey Wright's grand slam that pulled Immaculata within one run.
That, however, would be as close as the Mighty Macs would get. Kenyon scored three more times in the sixth inning, one in the seventh, two in the eighth and three more in the ninth to blow the game wide open.
Kenyon amassed 16 hits in the nine-inning contest.
Alex Gow, who was moved into the leadoff spot, went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBI. He made seven plate appearances and reached base six times, adding two walks and two hit-by-pitches to his stat line.
Rabinowitz,
Paul Siciliano,
Alexander Hoskins,
Jake Brown and Dwyer all ended up with two hits apiece for Kenyon. O'Leary put up a team-best three RBI with Gow, Siciliano and Hoskins adding two each. Hoskins picked up his two RBI on his first home run of the season, a two-run shot to left field in the ninth inning.
Will Allen took over on the mound for Kenyon in the fifth inning, following Biery. He pitched two scoreless innings with four strikeouts to pick up the win. Later,
Nathan Chandler recorded the final seven outs of the game, while also holding the Mighty Macs scoreless. Like Allen, Chandler gave up just one hit and struck out four.
The win moved Kenyon's record to 5-7, while the loss evened out Immaculata's record at 5-5.
