Game 1 box score

Game 2 box score

Game 3 box score

SUNDAY RECAP

The Charger baseball team polished off a three-game sweep of Walsh University this weekend with a 5-4 win over the Cavaliers in North Canton Sunday afternoon.

The resurgent Chargers are now 5-13 overall and 3-1 in the GLIAC and will try to keep the winning going Wednesday when they face Grand Valley State at Davenport University for games that start at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

Hillsdale jumped out to a 4-0 lead early, only to see Walsh come back to tie the game up 4-4. The game-winning run was scored in the bottom of the 6th when Connor Bartlett scored on a bases-loaded fielder's choice by Adam Ladzinski. Bartlett led off the inning with a single, and advanced thanks to a well-placed sacrifice bunt by Lincoln Reed and a one-out single by Luke Ortel.

Ortel had a big ballgame, going 2-for-4 with a walk and s steal of home plate that gave Hillsdale a 2-0 lead. 

Freshman Ethan Wiskur had a run-scoring double, while Bartlett and infielder Vinny Delicata each had two hits for Hillsdale.

Jacob King got the win in relief for the Chargers, going two perfect innings after starter Jacob Gardner came out after 5 1/3 on the mound. Gardner didn't allow a hit through four and retired 12 of the first 14 batters he faced. Walsh scored four runs in the fifth inning, when King came in. 

Jon Hanrahan got the final two outs of the eigth inning and junior Dan Pochmara picked up his second save of the season to close out the game in the ninth.

SATURDAY RECAP

The Hillsdale College baseball team used simple math to put together its first set of back-to-back wins this season Saturday.

When you don't allow the opposition to score any runs, your chances of winning are pretty good.

Senior Matthew Reck and freshman Jake Lee spun a pair of masterpieces in leading Hillsdale to wins of 7-0 and 1-0 over Walsh University in Canton, Ohio. The teams wrap up their three-game weekend series at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, also in Canton. Hillsdale is now 4-13 overall and 2-1 in the GLIAC. 

In the opener, Reck was simply masterful, going all seven innings with four hits and two walks allowed, to go with five strikeouts. After missing the entire 2013 season due to injury, it was a nice return to form for Reck, pitched like a staff ace in the 2012 campaign. He had that same stuff working for him in Saturday's win.

He got some immediate support from the Charger offense. Freshman Ethan Wiskur delivered a two-out, two-run single that scored Luke Ortel and Tad Sobieszczanski to put Hillsdale into a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Nolan Breymaier followed with another run-scoring single that brought Wiskur home for a three-run opening frame. 

Reck handled things from there in the 7-0 win.

Leadoff hitter Ortel and No. 8 hitter Lincoln Reed combined for six of Hillsdale's 11 hits in the ballgame. Reed went 3-for-3 with two runs scored. Wiskur was 2-for-3 in the win.

In game two, it was a player at the opposite end of Reck on the age scale tossing his first collegiate shutout.

Lee put together one of the finest pitching performances in recent Charger pitching history, recording the shutout with just one hit allowed in seven innings. He walked one and struck out three and faced three above the minimum in the ballgame. Walsh's only hit came with one out in the second inning. Lee retired the last 15 consecutive Cavalier batters he faced in the game.

Hillsdale's only run of the game came in the bottom of the fourth inning, when Breymaier, who is off to a very strong start at the dish, singled home Sobieszczanski, who had a one-out hit earlier in the frame. 

Sobieszczanski was 2-for-3 in a game where both teams combined for a total of four hits.