LEXINGTON, S.C. - The No. 21 nationally ranked Baldwin Wallace University baseball team fell to Arcadia (Pa.) University by a final score of 11-3 in the team's final game of the Spartan Southern Classic at Lexington County Stadium.
Scoring Summary
- Top 1st - The Jackets struck first with a sac fly by senior All-OAC first baseman Mally Kilbane (Olmsted Township/Olmsted Falls)
- Top 5th - Junior All-OAC shortstop Sean Kolenich (Parma/St. Edward) delivered an RBI double to get a run back for the Brown and Gold
- Top 7th - Kilbane drove in another run with his first hit of the day
At the Plate
- Kolenich finished a team-best 2-for-3 with an RBI
- Kilbane tallied two of the team's three RBI
- Senior All-OAC left fielder Joey Marousek (North Royalton) scored two of the Brown and Gold's runs
- Junior Academic All-OAC infielder Sam Patriarco (Solon) recorded his first collegiate hit with a pinch-hit single
- Senior designated hitter Nathan Zinn (Columbus/Worthington Kilbourne), senior Academic All-OAC right fielder Brandon Gelpi (Monroeville, Pa./Central Catholic), and junior outfielder John Panstares (Westlake/St. Ignatius) provided the last hits for the Yellow Jackets
On the Mound
- Senior All-OAC right-hander Dylan Snyder (Stow/Archbishop Hoban) got the start and went four innings where he allowed three runs on five hits and three walks
- Senior Academic All-OAC right-hander Kade Swisher (Berea/Berea-Midpark) pitched in his first game since the 2023 season where he had one strikeout and allowed four runs on four hits in 0.2 innings
- Senior right-hander Mason Decker (Middleburg Heights/Berea-Midpark) finished the fifth where he faced three batters and allowed one earned run
- Senior Academic All-OAC right-hander Noah English (Perrysburg) threw one inning where he he faced five and struck out one
- Freshman left-hander Tyler Vogel (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine-Richland) threw a third of the seventh and senior right-hander Gabe Hayek (Buffalo, N.Y./St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute) finished the inning and faced one in the eighth where he allowed two runs on two hits
- Junior All-OAC right-hander Tyler Walker (Fairlawn/Copley) finished the game with one run allowed on two hits and struck out one in 0.2 innings
The Yellow Jackets are back in action Friday, March 14 as they travel to Granville to take on North Central (Ill.) College in the first day of the Granville Tournament hosted by No. 6 nationally ranked Denison University at 1 p.m. at Big Red Field.
