AUBURNDALE, FL - The Benedictine University baseball team evened their record on the spring break trip in Florida by pressing past Hope College.

FINAL SCORE
Benedictine 6, Hope 4

THE DETAILS
• Benedictine built an early lead and held on for the victory to break a three-game skid
• Benedictine set the tone with three runs in the top of the first
• Nick Severino led off the game with a single on the first pitch and Jimmy McLaughlin, moved up in the order, followed suit
• Chayancze Stirbis was hit by a pitch to load the bases
• Erik Callaghan and Andrew Hotze logged RBI singles around a sacrifice fly from Tanner Kiser to account for the early outburst
• Jack Feeley opened the second with a triple and came around on a groundout from McLaughlin to push the lead to 4-0
• The lead seemed enough for Frank Greco, who improved to 3-0 on the year by working five innings
• Greco retired the first nine batters of the game
• Hope notched single runs in the fourth and seventh to pull within 4-2 before two more runs scored in the top of the ninth
• Hotze and Sam Kerr singled home runs in the ninth
• Hope (7-3) scored two unearned runs in the bottom of the ninth before Marty Maves was able to finish out the decision

STAT LEADERS
• Benedictine amassed 12 hits in the victory
• McLaughlin, Stirbis, Callaghan and Hotze each picked up a pair of hits
• Hotze finished with two RBIs
• Eight of the nine batters in the lineup logged at least one hit
• Greco (3-0) followed up a complete game shutout in his first Florida start with a two-hit showing, allowing just one run with two walks and two strikeouts
• Will Diessner worked 1.2 frames with Drake Berman notching 1.1 scoreless

UP NEXT
Benedictine (4-5) returns to the field at 11:00 a.m. against UW-Stevens Point