Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

AUBURNDALE, Fla. – The Union College baseball team earned a pair of wins over D'Youville Tuesday at Lake Myrtle Field in Auburndale. The Dutchmen won the first game by a score of 13-4 to earn the first win on the season and in the second game they scored four runs while pitcher Andy Brown struck out 11 and pitched a complete game shutout. Union is now 2-3 this season.

In the first game, center fielder Jared Hotaling, who him and catcher Ben Price earned Liberty League Performer and Rookie of the Week honors, repectively, led off the Dutchmen in the first inning with a single to center field, stoled second base and scored off a right field single by shortstop Dylan Katz-Wicks.

In the top of the second inning, D'Youville scored four earned runs to give it a 4-1 lead.

With Union trailing 4-2 going into the bottom of the fourth inning, pinch hitter Dane Flavin hit a blooper to left field which drove in pinch runner John Johnson from third base. Katz-Wicks hit a single to left field to send in Flavin from third and tie the game at four.

Union took the lead later in the inning when an bad throw by D'Youville shortstop Chris Glowacki passes first baseman Jeremy Sajdak, allowing right fielder Paul Mene to reach first base safely and drive in Katz-Wicks home from third. Another throwing error by Glowacki allowed left fielder Nick Ranalli to reach to first base safely and bring in third baseman Kevin Dexter and right fielder Mene to home, en route to a Union to a 7-4 lead.

Union's top six batters in the lineup would each score a run to make it 13-4. Andy Catellier earned the win after pitching four innings, allowing four earned runs and striking out three.

In the second game, Union scored first in the second inning when a sacrifice fly to right center field hit by Katz-Wicks drove in second baseman Emmanuel Fabre. Hotaling, who earlier reached on a bunt single and advanced to second on an throwing error by D'Youville pitcher Caleb Suzek, scored while D'Youville's defense were distracted by a pickle with right fielder Tyler Heck, who attempted to steal second base before the pitch was thrown.

Union would make it 3-0 in the fourth inning when a sacrifice fly to center field by catcher Mark Douglass brought in Johnson, who played left field in the game, home from third.

Heck's sacrifice fly to right field in the fifth inning drove in Hotaling to extend Union's lead to four.

Both Brown and Suzek pitched complete games. Brown allowed five hits.

Union faces Allegheny in a single nine inning game on Wednesday at Lake Myrtle Field. First pitch is at 10:30 a.m.