FORT MYERS, Fla. - The Haverford College baseball team (6-3) returned to the win column with a resounding 13-2 victory over Wisconsin Lutheran (4-8) at the Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic on Thursday morning.
Haverford tagged Wisconsin Lutheran starter Storm Portsche for a run in the first inning as Daniel Rosman began the contest with a walk and then stole second. After a Jack Wallis grounder moved Rosman to third, Luke Treese lifted a sacrifice fly to center for the first run of the contest.
Drew Doyle surrendered a run in the bottom of the frame, as an Elijah Shevey single and an error set the table for Nolan Hodgins to poke an RBI single through the right side of the infield with one out.
From that point, it was all Haverford. Pranav Rane doubled and scored on a Wallis sacrifice fly in the third before a rally in the fifth that saw Kendrick Curry II triple and score on a single from Mauro DeCillis. Rane kept the line moving with a single, and after a double steal, Wallis launched another sacrifice fly, putting the Fords up 4-1. The offensive firepower continued in the sixth as Chuck Norton and Matt Dahl each singled ahead of a double steal that saw Norton come home for a 5-1 advantage.
WLC added a run back in the sixth, but Wallis added his remarkable third sacrifice fly of the contest in the seventh, ahead of a Treese single and an RBI infield single from Dahl. Curry reached on a throwing error to plate a run, as the inning eventually came to a close with five runs on the board for the Fords.
A two-out rally in the ninth added three more insurance runs for Haverford, with DeCillis reaching via a walk and Rane knocking a single into left ahead of a single from Rosman and a bases-loaded walk to Wallis. Treese reached first via an error to plate an additional run.
On the mound, Doyle was dominant for Haverford, allowing just three hits and one earned run while striking out five. Alex Jenkinson, Aidan O'Sullivan, and Gavin Wang took relief turns, with the bullpen combining to allow just two hits and one run over four innings of work.
Rane was a standout offensively for the Fords, with three hits and three runs scored. Wallis had a 4-RBI day without the benefit of a hit (three sacrifice flies and one bases-loaded walk).
Haverford now returns to action Friday with a doubleheader against Pitt-Bradford. The seven-inning contests are slated for 9 a.m. and noon starts at Terry Park.