Baseball Loses Heartbreaker

Holds Ferrum to Two Hits in 1-0 Loss; Tennis Splits with Averett

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Women’s Tennis

WINCHESTER , Va. – The Shenandoah University women’s tennis team won its first ever dual match over Averett University Saturday afternoon with a 5-4 victory.

SU (3-1, 1-0) achieved its third straight win of the spring by winning singles matches at No.1, No. 3 and No. 4 along with No. 1 and No. 2 doubles.

Senior Jen McNeal (Verona, Va./Fort Defiance) once again was a double winner for the Hornets. She defeated Ginny Jones 6-4, 6-1 in singles and teamed with junior Wendy Legge (Stephens City, Va./Sherando) to win 8-1 at No. 1 doubles. Legge matched her doubles teammate with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Elina Leino at No. 3 singles.

Shenandoah will look to extend its winning streak to four on Wednesday with a non-league match at Wilson College.

Complete Results:

Women

1. Jen McNeal (SU) def. Ginny Jones (AU) 6-4, 6-1
2. Jessica McFarling (AU) def. Sakiko Horikawa (SU) 6-4, 6-1
3. Wendy Legge (SU) def. Elina Leino (AU) 6-3, 6-4
4. Laura Turek (SU) def. T. Weinkopff (AU) 6-3, 6-3
5. Katie English (AU) def. Rosaline Fisher (SU) 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 6-3
6. Courtney Carrington (AU) def. Jessica Padgett (SU) 6-1, 6-0

 Doubles

1. McNeal/Legge (SU) def. Jones/McFarling (AU) 8-1
2. Horikawa/Padgett (SU) def. Weinkopff/Carrington (AU) 8-6
3. English/Leino (AU) def. Turek/Fisher (SU) 8-3

Men’s Tennis

WINCHESTER, Va. – The SU men were not as successful as their female counterparts; Averett swept SU 7-0.

Junior Will Rice (Virginia Beach, Va./Ocean Lakes) was the only SU (0-2, 0-1) player to not get beat in straight sets. He lost 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 2-6 at No. 6 singles.

Shenandoah is off until next Saturday when it hosts Ferrum in a Dixie Conference doubleheader match with the women.

Complete Results:

Men

1. Vellu Antila (AU) def. John Moczcydlowski (SU) 6-0, 6-0
2. Pekka Mikkonen (AU) def. KC Hatton (SU) 6-0, 6-0
3. Mikko Hermans (AU) def. James Ham (SU) 6-0, 6-0
4. Tarmo Laaksonen (AU) def. Alex Bhaskarla (SU) 6-0, 6-1
5. Olli Kellokump (AU) def. Tim Dunford (SU) 6-0, 6-1
6. Ryan Oehling (AU) def. Will Rice (SU) 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 2-6

Doubles

1. Mikkonen/Antila (AU) def. Mocydlowski/Hatton (SU) 8-3
2. Hermans/Laaksonen (AU) def. Dunford/Bhaskarla (SU) 8-0
3. Kellokump/Oehling (AU) def. Bhaskarla/McKay (SU) 8-0

Baseball

WINCHESTER , Va. –   Shenandoah University outhit Dixie rival Ferrum College by three hits Saturday afternoon, but the Panthers got the only one that mattered in a 1-0 victory.

Ferrum (9-3, 1-0) scored the only run of the game with two outs in the seventh inning when No. 5 hitter Ricky Peace lofted a 3-2 curveball just over the leftfield wall to give the visitors a 1-0 lead.

Senior Doug Heagen made that one run stand up as he improved to 4-0 on the season by scattering five hits in the complete game victory. Heagen struck out 15 batters and did not issue a walk.

Shenandoah (7-12, 0-1) saw its best chance to score come in the first inning. The Hornets had runners on second and third with one out after senior John Cowell (Devon, Pa./Conestoga) moved Dusty Crostic (Chesterfield, Va./LC Bird) and Rodney Wooden (Baltimore, Md./Woodlawn) to second and third, respectively, with a groundout to second. Wooden led off the SU first with a single to center and then moved to second on Crostic’s infield single.

Unfortunately, Ferrum escaped trouble as Wooden was cut down at home on a fielder’s choice and then rightfielder Jafar Alexander (San Jose, Calif./Wilcox) lined out to short.

The Hornets lack of offensive firepower ruined an excellent pitching performance by junior Seth Foster (Alexandria, Va./Hayfield). Foster (1-3) gave up just a first inning single and the home run in the complete game performance. He struck out seven while hitting a batter and walking another.

Crostic had two of the Hornets five hits. He finished 2 for 4.

Box Score

These two teams are right back in action Sunday afternoon with a 1:00 start.