Box Score John Carroll started its season with a pair of grueling, tightly contested marathons, playing 22 innings in a doubleheader with 42 runs scored. The rubber match on Sunday afternoon took on a much more conventional form.

Steven Virost tossed six innings of four-run ball (two earned), Mike McCarty launched a two-run homer and Dominic Mittiga knocked in a quartet of runs to propel the Blue Streaks to a 16-4 victory over Allegheny at Linda K. Epling Baseball Stadium in Beckley, WV. Head coach Marc Thibeault and company improved to 2-1 heading into an eight-game trip in Florida next week.

When the Blue and Gold needed him the most, Virost delivered in just his second collegiate start. The senior out of Aurora surrendered an RBI double to Tom Cannon and RBI single to Keegan Phillips, but his other two runs were unearned courtesy of errors by McCarty and Nathan Reich. Thibeault had used seven pitchers in the previous 24 hours alone.

Virost commanded the strike zone and set down the final 10 hitters he faced to finish with a final line of 6 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K (84 pitches, 50 strikes, 59.5 percent strikes, six groundouts, six flyouts). Cannon's double was the only extra-base hit charged to his ledger.

Offensive production came early and often, as McCarty blasted a two-run bomb to left field – the first of his collegiate career – before Aaron Zawadzki and Reich laced two RBI singles off Dalton Donachie in the first frame. McCarty finished the weekend batting 4-for-9 (.444) with five RBIs.

In the third inning, Michael Anderson and Derek Penman each found the hole in right field for two RBI singles before Anderson eventually scored on a wild pitch. Donachie's season debut was one to forget: 3 IP, 9 H, 7 R/ER, 2 BB, 3 K.

The crooked numbers continued to hang, with Monroe Donnelly finding the gap for a two-run double and Mittiga driving in two runs with a single through the left side. One inning later, a passed ball and throwing error brought in another two runs, increasing the lead to 13-4.

None of the JCU players would take their foot off the gas pedal.

Another three runs would come across to score, with Mittiga knocking in two on a single up the middle before a bases-loaded walk. The former Walsh Jesuit standout registered four RBIs on three hits and a walk.

Duncan Cappar logged three innings of one-hit relief for the save.

The Blue Streaks tallied 16 runs, 16 hits, eight walks and six strikeouts in their best offensive performance of the campaign.

John Carroll will travel to Orlando, FL and take on Fontbonne University (2-2) on Sunday.