Baseball Release (2005) - Oglethorpe Double Header - Win - Guilford College

  • GUILFORD BASEBALL TEAM SWEEPS DOUBLEHEADER FROM OGLETHORPE

 

      Atlanta, GA (02/12/05) -- Guilford's baseball team improved to 3-1 Saturday with a doubleheader sweep of host Oglethorpe. The contests marked the Stormy Petrels' (0-2) first games of the season.

      The teams were scheduled to play single games Saturday and Sunday, but they switched to a seven- and a nine-inning doubleheader Saturday due to the forecast of rain Sunday.

 

      Sophomore Dave Whigham threw four and a third innings and junior Chris Raines picked up the save in the Quakers' 2-1 opening-game win. Freshman Fred Parent's second-inning sacrifice fly and junior Rob Bittner's run-scoring single in the third accounted for Guilford's runs.

 

      Bittner and Parent both hit two-run homers in the nightcap's sixth inning as the Quakers used a five-run frame to break open a 2-2 game. Parent's blast marked the first of his college career. Bittner also doubled and finished with three hits and three runs batted in. Sophomore Logan Collier improved to 2-0 with his second win in five days. He entered the game in the fifth inning in relief of junior starter Matt Spoerlein.

 

      The Quakers seek their fourth straight win Wednesday (2/16) with a 2:00 p.m. home contest against Averett.
 


Game 1 - Guilford 2, Oglethorpe 1
                           123 456 7 R H E
Guilford (2-1)         011 000 0 2 6 1
Oglethorpe (0-1)    000 001 0 1 6 1
Whigham, Raines (5) and Lerner. Sims and Sabala.
WP - Whigham (1-1). LP - Sims (0-1). Save - Raines (1).
 


Game 2 - Guilford 10, Oglethorpe 5
                        123 456 789 R H E
Guilford (3-1)      011 005 300 10 13 2
Oglethorpe (0-2)  001 012 010 5 11 0
Spoerlein, Collier (5), Balash (7), Flournoy (8), Comstock (9), and Lerner, Chaney (9). Baker, Purgason (6), Burchard (7), Brendley (9) and Sabala, Cassell (7).
WP - Collier (2-0). LP - Baker (0-1).
HR - Bittner (G) (1 on, 6th), Parent (G) (1 on, 6th).