SCHAUMBURG, IL - The Benedictine University baseball team returned to action following a layoff of over a week thanks to mother nature, and notched a sweep of Dominican to improve to 4-0 in conference play
Benedictine 3, Dominican 1 - Game One
Benedictine 6, Dominican 3 - Game Two
• Frank Greco took the ball in the opener and kept the Dominican bats at bay
• Benedictine struggled offensively as well as neither team scored until the top of the fifth
• Jack Surin doubled with two outs and scored the first run when
Kyle Mitter followed with a single to left-center
• The lead grew to 3-0 with a pair of runs in the eighth
• Jimmy McLaughlin,
Sam Kerr and
Jack Feeley all singled, with Feeley knocking home McLaughlin to make the score 2-0
• D.J. Dillon lifted a sacrifice fly to account for the other run
• Greco allowed only two hits entering the ninth inning before exiting
• Marty Maves nailed down his seventh save
• Benedictine needed to come from behind in the second contest after Dominican scored twice in the third, taking advantage of a miscue
• The rally began immediately in the top of the fourth when Feeley logged a one-out triple and scored on a groundout by
Sam Kerr
• Benedictine tallied three runs in the fifth to take the lead
• Tyler Woynerowski doubled home the tying run while Mitter put Benedictine ahead with a safety squeeze
• Michael Chaffin stretched the lead with an RBI single to score Woynerowski
• Benedictine added insurance runs in the seventh and ninth on a
Jonathan Hodo single and a
Brenden Norberg bunt single
• The games were played at Boomers Stadium in Schaumburg, home of the Frontier League's Schaumburg Boomers
• Greco moved to 3-2 on the year by working into the ninth and allowing just one run on three hits with three walks and four strikeouts
• Greco, the 2017 NACC Pitcher of the Year, saw a scoreless streak of 12.1 innings come to an end in the ninth
• Mitter finished with three of the eight Benedictine hits in the opener while Feeley added a pair
• Ryan Miller, now 4-0 on the year, started the second game and allowed only one earned run in seven innings, striking out four
• The third inning runs brought an end to a scoreless streak at 17.1 innings
• Ivan Guzman worked the eighth and Maves the ninth for his second save of the day and eighth of the year
• Maves has saved eight of the 12 victories this season
• The offense racked up 11 hits in the second game, the sixth double-digit hit performance and the third in conference play
• Hodo, Chaffin, Dillon, Woynerowski and Mitter all logged two hits
Benedictine (12-4, 4-0 NACC) will host North Central under the lights on Thursday in a non-conference affair.
