DANVILLE, Ky. - When the Hendrix College baseball team left campus on Friday to travel to Danville, Ky. to take on conference foe Centre College, the team did not forget their bats. The Warriors scored 27 runs on Sunday in a pair of routs, beating their Southern Athletic Association foe 18-3 and 9-3 to complete a three-game sweep.
Matt Simmons went 4-for-7 over the two games combined, scoring six runs and bringing home four RBI.
Ryan Ritz went 5-for-10 from the plate with four runs scored and a stolen base. From the mound, the Warriors got a pair of stellar starts from
Daniel Imbro and
Kyle Teachout. Imbro tossed seven, allowing one earned run and striking out six for the win in game one, while Teachout threw five innings, allowing two earned runs and fanning a pair for the game two victory.
Hendrix lit up the Centre starter in game one, scoring three runs in the first inning and five more in the second.
Drew Judson ripped an RBI double and
Jake Wiegand followed later in the inning with a two-run single to highlight the Warriors' early offense.
The squad added a run in the fourth on a Wiegand sacrifice fly, but it wasn't until the eighth inning that the team's bats exploded. The Warriors sent 13 batters to the plate in the frame, scoring nine more insurance runs on six hits.
Spencer Summers ripped a two-run double, followed by a two-run single by
James Martin. Simmons and Chase Schilhab each laced RBI singles as the Warriors extended their lead with the eighth inning outburst to cruise to an 18-3 win in eight innings.
In game two, the Orange and Black picked up where they left off, putting up four runs in the top of the first. Ritz led off with a single and came home on three consecutive walks. A wild pitch and two RBI groundouts gave the Warriors a 4-0 lead before they took the field. Hendrix added to their lead in the third with RBI singles from
Wyatt Hogan and
Harley Faye, and tacked on three more insurance runs in the fifth to finish off the Colonels 9-3.
Hendrix Notes- Head Coach
Neil Groat earned his 50th career win at the helm of the Warriors in their 18-3 victory in game one.
- In their seven conference tilts entering Sunday, Hendrix had scored just 16 runs. In two games on Sunday, they scored 27.
- In game one,
Matt Simmons ripped a single-game career-high four hits as the Warriors scored the eighth-most runs in a single game in program history.
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Daniel Imbro got his first win in four starts. The junior recorded six strikeouts and leads the team with 23.
- With at least one hit in each game,
Ryan Ritz extended his hitting streak to eight games, the longest current streak on the team.
- The Warriors improve to 9-2 overall against Centre with their first season sweep of the Colonels since joining the SAA.
Centre Notes - Charlie Grigsby was the only Colonel to record a multi-hit game on the day, going 2-for-3 in game two.
- Zach Montgomery went a combined 2-for-6 with an RBI on the day.
- Centre's starting pitchers combined to allow 16 runs (10 earned) in 6.0 innings pitched.
Up NextHendrix improves to 7-8 on the year with a 4-5 mark in SAA play. The squad will take on Central Baptist College at home on Tuesday night at 6 p.m.
