At no point this season had a pitcher come into Don Schaly Stadium and kept the #1 ranked team in the nation scoreless for the first six innings of a game.

Yet, in the opening game of the 2011 Ohio Athletic Conference baseball tournament, John Carroll pitcher Tom Schaberl was doing shutting out the vaunted Marietta Pioneers.

He was one out from making it seven, but that was when the game turned. Five consecutive two-out hits
led to a three-run inning that catapulted Marietta to a 4-1 win over JCU.

Box Score

Schaberl allowed seven hits over the first six innings to make a 1-0 stand up. The Blue Streaks scored their lone run in the second inning when Tom Hickey led off with a double and scored two batters later on a ground out from Aaron Miller.

After starting the seventh with two ground outs, Schaberl gave up a two-out double to Jordan Grilliot.
After Kirby Becker followed with an infield single, John Snyder pounded a two-run double to right center.

It was Marietta's first lead of the game.

Snyder's hit chased Schaberl, but he would be tagged with one more run when reliever Doug Finley gave up a two hits that allowed Snyder to score.

Marietta added an insurance run in the eighth.

Joe Veltri collected two of John Carroll's four hits to pace the Blue Streaks offense.

Marietta improved to 36-3 while JCU slipped to 18-19.