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Winner Salisbury SALISBUR 17-6
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Widener WIDENER 10-11
Winner
Salisbury SALISBUR
17-6
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Final
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Widener WIDENER
10-11
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Salisbury SALISBUR 4 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 2 11 12 2
Widener WIDENER 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 0

W: Rucker, Jack (4-0) L: Grady Anderson (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Will DeBoer

No. 9 Baseball rips Widener, 11-2

CHESTER, Pa. – The ninth-ranked Salisbury University baseball team kept the bats hot to the tune of five doubles en route to a 11-2 ripping of the Widener Pride on Wednesday afternoon at the WU Baseball Field.
 
The Sea Gulls got a big jump out of the gate with four runs in the first inning, highlighted by an RBI double off the bat of Jake Witter. The Pride answered with one in the second, but SU got that run back in the fourth on an RBI double by Max Ehrhardt to boost the margin to 5-1.
 
Salisbury opened up the manufacturing plant in the fifth and sixth, scoring three runs across the two frames on a squeeze play from Trent Waire and sac flies by Nathan Tondreault and Ehrhardt to get it to 8-1. In the seventh, Griffin Shirk lashed a two-bagger to left to score Witter and make it 9-1.
 
Widener tacked on one in the eighth, which the Sea Gulls answered with two more in the ninth on a Waire run-scoring double and an RBI knock by Shirk, giving the game its final 11-2 margin.
 
GAME NOTES
  • Jake Witter made the most of his start at the DH position, going 3-for-4 with two doubles, two runs, and an RBI, plus a stolen base.
  • Griffin Shirk finished 3-for-4 with a double, run, and three RBIs, while Trent Waire matched him with his own double, run, and trio of rib-eyes in a 1-for-4 afternoon.
  • Max Ehrhardt batted 1-for-3 with a double and two RBIs.
  • Cole Swift, Mickey Haynes, and Ethan Ruiz each stole two bases as part of SU's season-high eight swiped bags on the day.
  • Jack Rucker (4-0) continued his strong stretch with 4.2 solid innings in relief, scattering one run and three hits while walking two and fanning two on 66 pitches.
  • Ethan Hirschfeld opened and made it through three innings of one-run ball, while Cole Williams took the baton from Rucker and finished off the final inning and a third in scoreless fashion.
 
The Sea Gulls will now return home for a titanic matchup against Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) rival and 16th-ranked Christopher Newport on Saturday. First pitch from Donnie Williams Stadium is slated 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), Coastal Lacrosse Conference (men's lacrosse), State University of New York Athletic Conference (field hockey), and Colonial Women's Golf Conference (women's golf). 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 207 conference championships, and have produced 54 Academic All-Americans.

To Make Tomorrow Yours at Salisbury University, and learn more about Sea Gull Athletics' tradition of excellence, visit SUSeaGulls.com or follow on social media @SUSeaGulls.
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