SALISBURY, Md. – The ninth-ranked Salisbury University baseball team reached the 30-win plateau for the eighth consecutive complete season, torching the Hood Blazers 12-2 in seven innings in Tuesday afternoon's final regular season game at Donnie Williams Sea Gull Baseball Stadium.
The Blazers put up a run each in the first and second innings, the latter coming on a solo home run by Jonathan Tyndall, before the Sea Gulls roared back with six in the fourth. After back-to-back walks to start the frame,
BK Wilson beat out a bunt single that was thrown past first base, allowing two runs to score and Wilson to advance to second.
Logan Stillerman followed with another walk and the two executed a double steal, with Wilson trotting home on a bad throw from the catcher to put SU on top 3-2.
Another walk led to a
Max Ehrhardt squeeze bunt that plated Stillerman. After a hit batsman,
Dylan Winebrenner and
Noah Burroughs followed with back-to-back RBI singles, boosting the margin to 6-2. Salisbury tacked on another in the fifth as
Trent Waire singled and
Griffin Shirk came home on an error in center to make it 7-2.
Burroughs blasted a solo homer to right center to lead off the sixth, then two batters later
Andrew Kell teed off for his own two-run dinger to left to make it 10-2. Later in the inning with two down and the bases juiced, Winebrenner singled home two more runs to put SU up by 10 runs at 12-2, triggering the end of the game after the top of the seventh.
GAME NOTES
- Noah Burroughs clubbed his seventh home run of the year, finishing 2-for-5 with two RBIs.
- Andrew Kell went yard for the second time this season, going 1-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs.
- Dylan Winebrenner finished 2-for-4 with three rib-eyes.
- Logan Stillerman stole two of the Sea Gulls' four bags for the day.
- Max Ehrhardt came to the plate five times without recording an at-bat in the leadoff slot, finishing with two walks, an HBP, two sac bunts, one run, and one RBI.
- Cole Williams (6-2) cruised through 3.1 innings of scoreless two-hit ball in relief, walking none and striking out four.
- Aidan Brinsfield lasted 2.2 innings in his start, giving up two runs on four hits. Daniel Hesson spun a perfect seventh to finish the game.
- Salisbury has now won at least 30 games in eight straight full seasons (excluding 2020) dating back to 2017. The Sea Gulls have won 30-plus 23 times since 2000, reaching the mark in every finished campaign except for 2005 and 2016.
The Sea Gulls will finish off the regular season on the road with a trip to Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) foil Mary Washington on Saturday. First pitch from Fredericksburg, Va., is set for 2 p.m.
Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with affiliate membership in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (football, men's & women's swimming) and the Coastal Lacrosse Conference (men's lacrosse). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the nation's most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, featuring dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on and off the field. The Sea Gulls have won a combined 23 team national championships, 24 individual national championships, and 202 conference championships, and have produced 51 Academic All-Americans.
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