SUNDAY RECAP
Game 3 box score - Maryville 2, Hillsdale 0
Game 4 box score - Maryville 7, Hillsdale 5
The Charger baseball team saw its early-season winning streak come to an end Sunday afternoon.
Hillsdale lost both ends of Sunday's doubleheader against Maryville, 2-0 in the first game and 7-5 in the second. The Chargers now stand at 11-4 on the season and head to Columbus, Ohio next weekend for a non-conference three-game series at Ohio Dominican.
In the opener, Maryville's Robbie Gordon threw a perfect game, sending Phil Carey home with a fristrating loss. Carey pitched effectively, going six innings with two runs and four hits allowed.
As is often the case in the game of baseball, Hillsdale, who was shut out in the first game, scored three runs in the first inning of game two. But the Saints came back impressively, scoring twice in the bottom of the first and bottom of the third to take the lead for good.
Senior Chris McDonald had a double and 3 RBI in the nightcap, while senior Michael O'Sullivan scored two runs for Hillsdale.
SATURDAY RECAP
Game 1 box score - Hillsdale 3, Maryville 2
Game 2 box score - Hillsdale 13, Maryville 5
The Hillsdale College baseball team is finding different ways to win games, and those ways were on display Saturday afternoon in Missouri.
Senior Jacob Gardner spun a gem in the Chargers' 3-2 win over Maryville in the first game of the four-game weekend series between the teams. Gardner went seven strong innings, fanning four with no earned runs allowed, keeping the Chargers in a tightly played game.
In game 2, Hillsdale bounced back after allowing five runs in the first inning to post a 13-5 win over the Saints, running its record to 11-2 on the season, and its current winning streak to a school-record nine games.
Gardner yielded a run in the bottom of the first, then blanked the Saints over the next six innings, giving up just four hits to improve to 2-1 on the season. Senior Mitchell Gatt threrw a perfect eighth inning, and senior Chris McDonald earned his seventh save of the season, tying a school record for one year.
Offensively, junior Ethan Wiskur and senior Joe Gentile each had two hits and a run batted in while Luke Ortel stole his eighth base of the season.
In game 2, Hillsdale jumped ahead 2-0 in the top of the first only to see Maryville strike for five runs in the bottom of the first to take a 5-2 lead. But the Chargers responded with two in the second, one in the third and two more in the fourth to take the lead for good.
Sophomore pitcher Will Kruse settled down impressively after his difficult first inning, earning his third win of the season with a three-strikeout, seven-inning performance that saw him toss six innings of shutout baseball.
Ortel had a fantastic game at the plate, notching two triples as part of a 5-for-5 game with three runs scored and three runs batted in. He extended his own career school record for triples and is batting .467 through the season's first 13 games.
Senior Connor Bartlett hit a two-run home run that put the Chargers in front for good. Wiskur was 3-for-4 with two runs scored, and senior Tad Sobieszczanski also had three hits in the win.