DELAWARE — The Wittenberg baseball team swept a doubleheader at Ohio Wesleyan in North Coast Athletic Conference play on Saturday. The Tigers won the opening game 13-3 in seven innings and closed out the sweep with a 5-4 victory in Game 2.

The Basics

• Records: Wittenberg (19-12 overall, 9-1 NCAC), Ohio Wesleyan (15-15 overall, 5-7 NCAC)
• Venue: Littick Field - Delaware, Ohio

Stat Leaders - Game 1

• Senior Luke Thomas (Tallmadge, Ohio/Tallmadge) was 3-for-4 with a double to go with two RBIs and three runs scored.
• Freshman Xander Rodriguez (Salinas, P.R./Franklin County) was 2-for-3 with a double to go with three RBIs and one run.
• Senior Matt Moore (Wadsworth, Ohio/Wadsworth) was 2-for-4 with a double to go with two RBIs and one run.
• Senior Parker Gryskevich (Brownsburg, Ind./Brownsburg) added one hit and two RBIs, and junior Ben Seibert (Cincinnati, Ohio/LaSalle) tallied one hit and three runs.
• Senior Nick Cunningham (Fredericktown, Oho/Fredericktown) pitched all seven innings for the Tigers. He allowed just one earned run on five hits and one walk while striking out six and improved to 2-2 on the season.

Game 1 - Wittenberg 13, Ohio Wesleyan 3

• Wittenberg took an early 5-0 lead in the top of the first inning, scoring on an OWU error, RBI sac fly from Rodriguez, 2-RBI double from Moore and RBI single from Gryskevich.
• The Battling Bishops answered with one run in the bottom of the first and two more in the second, making the score 5-3.
• The Tigers added five more runs in the top of the fourth inning, getting an RBI double from Thomas, RBI single from sophomore Alex Nemunaitis (Ottawa Hills, Ohio/Ottawa Hills), 2-RBI double from Rodriguez and RBI sac fly from Gryskevich to increase the lead to 10-3.
• Wittenberg was able to end the game early via the 10-run mercy rule after scoring three runs in the seventh inning on an RBI single from Thomas and brining two runners home via wild pitches.
• Wittenberg out-hit OWU by a 12-5 margin and committed one error to the Bishops' four.

Stat Leaders - Game 2

• Nemunaitis led the Tiger offense, going 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles to go with one RBI and two runs scored.
• Rodriguez was 2-for-4 with a home run to go with three RBIs and two runs.
• Senior Conor O'Malley (Avon, Ohio/St. Edward's) tallied two hits.
• Gryskevich had one hit and one RBI.
• Junior Charlie Schafer (Beavercreek, Ohio/Beavercreek) earned the win on the mound for the Tigers, improving to 2-1 on the season. He pitched 2.2 scoreless innings, allowing just one hit and one walk while striking out two.
• Senior Austin Luther (Hughesville, Md./St. Mary's Ryken) started on the mound for the Tigers. He allowed four runs on six hits and two walks while striking out three over 6.1 innings.
• Edrick Padilla led the OWU offense with a home run and double to go with four RBIs and one run.

Game 2 - Wittenberg 5, Ohio Wesleyan 4

• Padilla got the scoring started with a three-run homer in the bottom of the first inning to give the Bishops an early lead.
• Wittenberg got an RBI single from Rodriguez in the second and RBI double from Nemunaitis in the third to cut the deficit to 3-2.
• An RBI double from Padilla put OWU up 4-2 in the bottom of the fourth.
• The Tigers got within 4-3 on an RBI single from Gryskevich in the top of the sixth.
• In the top of the ninth, Nemunaitis led off by reaching base on a hit-by-pitch, and Rodriguez followed with a two-run homer to put the Tigers up 5-4.
• Schafer closed out the Wittenberg victory with a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth on a pair of groundouts and a popout.
• Wittenberg out-hit OWU by a 12-7 margin and committed one error to the Bishops' two.

Quote - Head coach Brian McGee

• "Another outstanding performance on the mound by our pitchers today. The defense made plays, and our hitting came through as needed. Rodriguez continues to play ahead of his age with two game-winning/go-ahead hits/RBIs twice this week! We swept our conference games this week and have won 10 straight games overall!"

Records & Milestones

• Eighth-year head coach Brian McGee is now 152-111 all-time at Wittenberg.
• Moore has 150 hits, 22 doubles and 112 RBIs in his career. He is tied for seventh all-time in RBIs and is 16 hits and 14 doubles shy of breaking into the program's all-time top 10 in those categories.
• O'Malley has 150 hits, 33 doubles, 16 home runs, 114 RBIs, 116 runs scored in his career. He is tied for fifth all-time at Wittenberg in home runs and RBIs and is 16 hits, three doubles and seven runs shy of breaking into the program's all-time top 10 in those categories.
• Thomas has 133 hits and 32 doubles in his career. He is 33 hits and four doubles shy of breaking into the program's all-time top 10 in those categories.
• Luther has 135 career strikeouts, and Cunningham has 118 career strikeouts.

Up Next

• The Tigers return to action on Sunday hosting a non-conference game against Bluffton at 4 p.m.