Baseball team drops season-opening doubleheader at Earlham

RICHMOND, Ind. – The Olivet College baseball team lost both games of its season-opening doubleheader to Earlham (Ind.) College this afternoon at Randal R. Sadler Stadium. The Quakers won by scores of 20-4 and 9-4.

Final Score: Earlham (Ind.) 20, Olivet 4; Earlham (Ind.) 9, Olivet 4
Location: Randal R. Sadler Stadium; Richmond, Indiana
Records: Olivet 0-2 overall, Earlham 2-0 overall

• The Quakers scored at least one run in every inning between the second and seventh innings, including erupting for five runs in the fourth and six runs in the seventh.
• The Comets had single tallies in the third, fifth, sixth and ninth innings.

• Olivet totaled eight hits – one single, six doubles and one home run. The six doubles tie for the fifth-most in a game since the 2003 season.
• Junior Sylas Woll went 2-for-4 at the plate, with two doubles.
• Freshman Mason Cook hit a pinch-hit, home run in the ninth inning.
• Seniors Ben Compton and Matt Fisher, and sophomore Gabriel Kirck each had an RBI-double.
• Sophomore Keegan Kuha was tagged with the pitching loss. He surrendered eight runs (four earned) on five hits over the first three and two-third innings.

• Earlham recorded 15 hits, including five doubles.
• Zach Swearington was 4-for-6 with two doubles, two singles, four RBI and three runs.
• Four other players had a multi-hit game.
• Maxwell Fries drove in three runs.
• Justin Dillhoff earned the pitching win after giving up two runs on four hits over the first five innings.

• The Comets took a 2-0 lead on back-to-back RBI-doubles by Compton and senior Logan Sella in the third inning.
• The Quakers answered with one run in the third inning, two runs in the fourth inning and one run in the fifth inning to go up 4-2.
• Olivet leveled the score with a pair of runs in its half of the sixth inning.
• Earlham scored five unanswered runs over the last three innings.

• Olivet tallied eight hits, including two each for Sella and Fisher.
• Both of Sella's hits were doubles.
• Senior Brendan Redding was the losing pitcher. He gave up five runs (four earned) on eight hits, while striking out nine over the first five and one-third innings.

• Earlham finished the game with 10 hits.
• Easton Embry had two hits and walked in his other two plate appearances.
• Cameron McCabe hit two doubles.
• Devin Basley collected two RBI.
• Jeordon Kuderer scored three runs.
• On the mound, Aiden Talarek picked-up the win. He tossed the first five and one-third innings and allowed four runs (three earned) on six hits.

• The Comets and Quakers will play a single, nine-inning game tomorrow, starting at 12 p.m.