The Benedictine University baseball team erupted offensively with a pair of 18-run showings to sweep Dominican at home on Thursday, scoring runs in all but two of the 14 innings played.
GAME ONE: BENEDICTINE 18, DOMINICAN 8
A back-and-forth game was busted open with eight runs in the seventh inning as Benedictine banged out 23 hits to take the opener.
Brennan Fisher put Benedictine on the board with a solo homer in the first. With the game even at 2-2,
George Betevis homered in the third.
Mike Budorick hit a two-run homer in the fifth as part of a three-run inning that broke a 4-4 deadlock. Dominican was up 8-7in the sixth but
Justin Nonnenmann came through with a two-run single to put Benedictine ahead. The lead snow balled in the seventh as the hits kept coming.
Jackson Bahn started and worked five innings, allowing two earned runs with five strikeouts.
John Creviston tossed the final two to grab the win. Nonnenmann finished with five RBIs and three hits. Fisher and Tommy Jusi both posted four hits. Everyone reached base in the game with eight recording a hit and all eight notched multiple hits.
GAME TWO: BENEDICTINE 18, DOMINICAN 0
JT Adams twirled a one-hit complete game shutout. The lone hit for Dominican came in the fourth. Adams moved to 4-0 by striking out nine.
Benedictine led 9-0 before erupting in the sixth for nine runs. Budorick had a big game, blasting a three-run homer off the foul pole in right and finishing with four hits and five RBIs. Eight individuals posted hits in the second game as Benedictine totaled 16.
Benedictine (13-12, 5-7 NACC) meets North Central on Friday afternoon.
