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With the Ohio Athletic Conference baseball schedule in its infancy, John Carroll University showed promise with a 14-6 win in Friday's second game against Capital after suffering a 10-1 defeat in game one.

The 1:00 p.m. contest was scoreless for three innings, before the Crusaders put five runners across home plate in the bottom of the fourth inning.  Capital laced 12 hits in the game, while the Blue Streaks could only accumulate four.

JCU's lone run came when an RBI fielder's choice off the bat of Mitchell Herringshaw scored Aaron Miller in the fifth.  Miller, Herringshaw, and Joe Veltri were the only Streaks with hits in the early contest.

In a reversal of fortunes, John Carroll scored five times to break a scoreless tie and take command in the later game.  Freshman David Crowley's single scored Jimmy Spagna to make it 3-0, before Veltri lined a two-run single to break the game open.

Though the Crusaders answered with three of their own in the bottom of the third, the Blue & Gold had two more offensive outbursts to comprise the final score.  First, Herringshaw doubled in a pair of runs and came around to score on Spagna's single in the sixth to put JCU up 10-6.

The insurance was underwritten in the ninth when the Streaks scored four runs (three unearned), including an RBI triple from Bobby Sabatino.  

The pitching trio of Aaron Lapaglia, Billy Turosky, and Zach Verner combined for five innings of scoreless relief to allow for the 14-6 win.  Turosky picked up the win to improve to 3-0 on the year.

With the split, the Blue Streaks are now 12-6, 1-1 in the OAC as they prepare to face Baldwin Wallace for a doubleheader in Berea on April 2.