Weekend Wrap Up

Baseball Finishes with two Florida Wins; Men’s Lacrosse Loses Close One

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Baseball

FORT MYERS , Fla. – The SU baseball team wrapped up its eight day stay in Florida Saturday morning with a 5-3 victory over Mount Union (O.) College. The win comes on the heels of a 10-1 victory over Westfield (Mass.) State on Friday evening.

Shenandoah (5-10) won three of its final five games at the Gene Cusic Tournament and finished 3-5 overall at the tourney.

In Saturday’s finale, freshman Mike McVearry (Bowie, Md./South River) improved to 3-1 on the season with his second straight complete game victory. He gave up three runs (one earned) on eight hits and two walks in the seven innings. McVearry also struck out four.

After falling behind 2-0 as Mount Union scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the first, SU took the lead for good with three runs of its own one inning later. Freshman Matt MacDonald (Virginia Beach, Va./Princess Anne) led off with a single and moved to second when Shane Lloyd (Alexandria, Va./Hayfield) was hit by a pitch. MacDonald then scored on sophomore Tyler Daniel’s (Richmond, Va./JR Tucker) single.

Freshman Brent Meixsell (Saylorsville, Pa./Pleasant Valley) tied the score one batter later as he drove home Lloyd with a sacrifice fly to center. Rodney Wooden (Baltimore, Md./Woodlawn) completed the rally with an RBI double that plated Daniel.

Daniel finished with two of the Hornets eight hits; he was 2 for 3 with two RBI and two runs scored.

Shenandoah scored a season high 10 runs on 12 hits in Friday’s 10-1 victory over Westfield State. As with Saturday’s game, the Hornets rallied from a first inning deficit to score three runs in the third and take the victory.

MacDonald and Lloyd once again figured in the rally; each drove in a run with a single. Lloyd finished the day 3 for 5 with two RBI while Wooden, MacDonald and Dusty Crostic (Chesterfield, Va./LC Bird) all had two hits each. MacDonald and Crostic also drove in a pair of runs each.

Sophomore JR Creamer (Lovettsville, Va./Loudoun Valley) earned his first victory of the spring by scattering five hits and the lone run in 8 1/3 innings. Freshman Tyler Gorman (Alexandria, Va./Hayfield) completed the contest for Creamer by inducing a groundball double play against the only batter he faced.

Box Score - Westfield

Box Score - Mount Union

Shenandoah returns home to face Christendom in a Tuesday afternoon doubleheader. First pitch is scheduled for 5:00.

Men’s Lacrosse

WINCHESTER , Va. - The Shenandoah University men's lacrosse suffered its first ever loss in Shentel Stadium Saturday afternoon as Randolph Macon took an 11-9 decision before a crowd of 172.

Randolph-Macon (1-2) rallied from a 7-4 halftime deficit to earn its seventh win in as many tries against SU (1-2).  Sophomore James Hernandez (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa./HCC) led the SU to that halftime lead with two of his team high three goals; both of his tallies came in the second period.

Macon rallied for the victory with five goals in the third to take a 9-8 lead into the final quarter. The Hornets managed to regroup defensively and hold R-MC to only two goals in the final 15 minutes, but could only manage one of its own to fall by two.

Junior Chris Keller (Smithsburg, Md./Smithsburg) moved into a tie for second place on the all-time scoring list with his one goal, two assist performance. Keller is now 41 points behind all-time leader Shawn Scattergood ’99 with 111 career points.

Box Score

SU now travels to Susquehanna on Wednesday for a scheduled 3:30 faceoff.

Softball

RALEIGH, N.C. -  The SU softball team completed this weekend’s play by dropping its opening Dixie Conference doubleheader, 4-1 and 8-1 to Chowan College, Sunday afternoon.

Shenandoah (0-8, 0-2) also lost all four of its games at the Meredith College Tournament on Friday and Saturday.

SU lost 15-2 to Peace, 8-2 to Meredith and 13-6 to Randolph Macon Woman’s College on Friday before falling 12-3 to RMWC in Saturday’s consolation game.

Senior Amanda Long (Antwerp, Ohio /IPFW) had four hits in the four games while Nikki Braithwaite (Winchester, Va./James Wood) had two triples in Saturday’s loss to the WildCats.

Sophomore Lesley Beard (Youngstown, Ohio/Austintown Fitch) led SU offensively in Sunday’s doubleheader with four hits. She was 2 for 4 in game one and 1 for 3 in game two.  Jodi Milburn (Winchester, Va./Lord Fairfax) was 2 for 3 with an RBI in the opener.

Box Scores

The Hornets are in action again on Tuesday with a Dixie Conference doubleheader at Christopher Newport.

Men’s and Women’s Tennis

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. Va. – The SU women’s tennis team evened its record at 1-1 Sunday afternoon with a 6-1 victory over Shepherd College. Unfortunately, the men came out on the short end of a 7-0 defeat.

No. 2 Sakiko Horikawa (Chiba, Japan/SHOWA) and No. 5 Jessica Padgett (Cincinnati, Ohio/Ross) were both double winners for the women (1-1). Horikawa was an 8-2 singles winner and then teamed with Padgett to win 8-1 at No. 2 doubles. Padgett won her singles match by default.  

The men fell to 0-1 with the loss.

Both the men and women will host Gallaudet University on Thursday.

Complete Results:

Women

1. Jen McNeal (SU) def. Katie Benisek (SC) 8-5
2. Sakiko Horikawa (SU) def. Leigh Burch (SC) 8-2
3. Wendy Legge (SU) def. Melissa McCabe (SC) 8-3
4. Rosaline Fisher (SU) def. Julie Collier (SC) 8-1
5. Jessica Padgett (SU) won by default
6. No Match

Doubles

1. Benisek/Burch (SC) def. McNeal/Legge) 8-4
2. Horikawa/Padgett (SU) def. McCabe/Collier 8-1
3. No match

Men

1. Greg Selby (SC) def. John Moczcydlowski (SU) 8-3
2. Scott Ewler (SC) def. KC Hatton (SU) 8-2
3. Tim Halter (SC) def. Tim Dunford (SU) 8-0
4. Mike Ferrell (SC) def. Alex Bhaskarla (SU) 8-1
5. Brian Clarke (SC) def. Will Rice (SU) 8-0
6. Ray Sherman (SC) def. Mike McKay (SU) 8-0

Doubles

1. Ferrell/Thomas Bohrstedt (SC) def. Mocydlowski/Hatton (SU) 8-0
2. Selby/Halter (SC) def. Dunford/Bhaskarla (SU) 8-0
3. Ewler/Eric Stevenson (SC) def. Rice/McKay 8-0