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Justin Hanley trots around second after his homerun
0
Ohio Northern ONUBB 5-5
9
Winner John Carroll JCUBB21 7-3
Ohio Northern ONUBB
5-5
0
Final
9
John Carroll JCUBB21
7-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Ohio Northern ONUBB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3
John Carroll JCUBB21 0 0 3 4 1 1 0 X 9 11 1

W: Steele, Andrew (2-0) L: Alex Dodson (1-2)

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Winner Ohio Northern Baseba OHIONO~1 5-4
10
John Carroll JOHNCAR 6-3
Winner
Ohio Northern Baseba OHIONO~1
5-4
21
Final
10
John Carroll JOHNCAR
6-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Ohio Northern Baseba OHIONO~1 5 1 1 0 0 2 4 0 8 21 23 3
John Carroll JOHNCAR 0 2 1 0 0 3 2 2 0 10 18 2

W: Nate Bye (1-1) L: Midea, Mitchell (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Drezdan Dale, Staff Writer

Blue Streaks and Polar Bears Split a Marathon of a Double-Header

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio -- The John Carroll baseball team split their doubleheader against the Ohio Northern University Polar Bears on Saturday, March 27th from Schweickert Field in University Heights, Ohio.

In the first game, the Blue Streaks trotted out pitching staff ace Mitch Midea, who came in with 19 strikeouts in two games started this season. Midea struck out both Krue Thwaits and Will Davis to get things rolling for John Carroll. However, after those two quick outs, Ohio Northern's Corey McMann doubled down the left-field line. Matthew Burkett then blasted another double, scoring McMann. Logan Stevens kept the two out rally alive by singling to left field, and Chayten Overholt singled, driving in Burkett. Jacob Wenning and Nate Webb both singled as well, each driving in a run. Finally, after a Michael Rocco single which drove in a fifth run, Blue Streak centerfielder Matthew Springer threw Webb out trying to dive back to second base, getting the Streaks out of the inning down 5-0. 

After not being able to push any runs across in the bottom of the first, Midea allowed a leadoff walk to Thwaits to start the second inning before McMann singled in Thwaits later on, putting the Polar Bears up 6-0. In the bottom of the second, after retiring the first two batters, Ohio Northern starter Nate Bye allowed Bennett Cavaretta and Springer to each single. Sam Heaton capitalized on the opportunity, driving in both with a 2-RBI double to right-centerfield, narrowing the Polar Bear lead to 6-2.

Ohio Northern was able to manufacture a run after two doubles to lead off the top of the third. John Carroll responded on a Tyler Cyrus RBI single that brought home Henry Haracz. 

In the top of the fourth, Midea allowed a one-out double to McMann, prompting Blue Streak manager Bobby Bell to bring in freshman Sylvan Wiley. Making his collegiate debut, Wiley was able to get out of the inning without allowing a run. In fact, no runs were scored from then until the top of the sixth inning, when with two outs, McMann blasted a solo home run to left-centerfield. On the very next pitch, Burkett himself demolished a pitch over the left field fence, making the score 9-3 in favor of Ohio Northern. Nicholas Michel then came on in relief and retired the next batter for the third out of the inning.

Up by six runs in the bottom of the sixth, Ohio Northern manager Gene Stechschulte decided to go to the bullpen, bringing in Devin Johnson. Johnson allowed a two-out single to John Carroll's Joe Olsavsky, loading the bases for Justin Hanley. Hanley sliced a home run foul, and on the next pitch, singled up the middle, driving in two runs. Olsavsky then was able to score on a wild pitch, making the score 9 to 6. 

Ohio Northern struck for four more runs in the top of the seventh before Blue Streak Duncan Cappar came in to pitch and shut the door on the inning. John Carroll followed by pushing across two runs in the latter half of the inning behind a Cavaretta RBI double and a wild pitch.

After an Ohio Northern three-up, three-down inning, John Carroll scored two more runs as Tyler Cyrus blasted a no doubt two-run home run to left-centerfield, absolutely crushing it.

Heading into the top of the ninth only down three runs, the Blue Streaks looked to limit the damage and give themselves a chance to win the game in the bottom half of the inning. Things did not go as planned, however, as Cappar was able to retire two batters before giving up two runs. Then, Bell pulled Cappar for Maxwell Schumaker. Schumacher was not able to pitch the Blue Streaks out of the inning without allowing more runs, as he gave up three RBI hits and walked four batters. In total, Ohio Northern scored eight runs in the inning, all with two-outs.

Down eleven with only three outs left, the Blue Streaks managed a Hanley single in the bottom of the ninth, but that was all the Streaks could mount for the inning.

The final score of game one ended up 21-10, with Ohio Northern registering 23 hits to John Carroll's 18. Northern's Bye (1-1) earned the victory on the mound, while Midea (1-1) took the loss for the Blue Streaks.

In game two of the doubleheader, both offenses did not get going early on like they did in the first game. In fact, Ohio Northern was not able to register any offense against the Blue Streaks in the game. Led by starting pitcher Andrew Steele, John Carroll's pitching was phenomenal this time around. 

After Steele retired three of the first four batters he faced in the top of the first, Erik Daugenti singled to center with one out in the Blue Streaks' half of the inning. Olsavsky then doubled to right, advancing Daugenti to third and putting pressure on Polar Bear starting pitcher Alex Dodson. Dodson was able to strikeout Hanley and Haracz however, ending the scoring threat. 

Both teams exchanged three-up, three-down frames in the second inning. Steele then retired the side in the top of the third. Blue Streak Michael Anderson led off the bottom of the third with a single to center, seemingly igniting the John Carroll offense. Heaton followed with a walk, and then with one out, Olsavsky flew out to center, bringing in Anderson. Hanley followed with a two-run blast to left-center as he notched his third home run of the season. This ended the Blue Streak scoring for the inning at 3 runs, giving them their first lead of the day with the score 3-0. 

After allowing two base runners to start the top of the fourth, Steele tightened down and struck out two of the final three Polar Bear batters to end the inning and shatter any possibility of a run being pushed across.

John Carroll struck for four more runs in the bottom of the fourth. After a Cavaretta fly out, Anderson was hit by a pitch, and Heaton barreled a double that one-hopped to the fence. This put runners on second and third for Daugenti, who singled and drove in Anderson. Olsavsky followed with another single, this time driving in Heaton. After a Hanley walk, Haracz singled to left center and drove in two more runs for the Streaks. Hayden Heche entered in relief for Ohio Northern and was able to induce a ground ball double-play to limit the scoring to four runs with the score 7-0 in favor of John Carroll.

Steele limited the Polar Bears to only a walk in the top of the 5th. In the latter half of the inning, the Blue Streaks were able to score once again, this time on a throw down to second base that got away from Ohio Northern's second baseman. 

With the score 8-0, Steele came back out for the top of the sixth. After allowing a one-out single, Steele retired the next two batters, with the final via strikeout. This was the final inning Steele (2-0) pitched for the day, as he finished with six strikeouts over six innings and ultimately earned the win. Steele allowed seven baserunners, with only four of those coming on hits.

Steele said after the game, "After that tough first game, we needed a pick-me up in game two, and I was just lucky to have the opportunity and to be that guy."

Ohio Northern's Noah Truax came in to pitch the bottom of the sixth, and the Blue Streaks gave him a warm welcome to the game by scoring a run on a Hanley RBI double to center field, bringing home Olsavsky. 

Jack Bennett replaced Steele on the mound at the start of the top of the 7th and retired all three batters he faced, striking out two. After a three-up, three-down inning for the Blue Streaks, Bennett came back out and struck out another Polar Bear before getting out of the inning without allowing a run despite allowing a hit and an error.

With the Blue Streaks ahead by nine runs, both teams and the umpires decided to call the game after seven full innings and an extra Polar Bear at bat in the 8th. As Schweickert Field does not have lights, darkness became the issue as it was getting very late into the evening after that long first game. The final score for game two was 9-0 in favor of John Carroll.

After today's games, John Carroll moved to 7-3 (4-2 OAC) on the season while Ohio Northern improved to 3-5 (2-4 OAC). Both teams will be back in action on Sunday, as the Blue Streaks travel to Ada, Ohio for a double header set to start at 1 pm.
 
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