Game 1 box score: HC 4, UF 0

Game 2 box score: HC 4, UF 2

Many baseball purists will be quite happy with great pitching over great hitting, given a choice between the two. The Hillsdale College baseball team had plenty of the former in a doubleheader sweep on the road Wednesday.

Getting terrific performances on the mound by senior Shane Armstrong in game 1 and junior Jacob Gardner in game 2, the Chargers pulled off a sweep of the University of Findlay Oilers by scores of 4-0 and 4-2 in Ohio. The wins make Hillsdale 13-23 overall and 8-12 in the GLIAC. The team stays on the road this weekend for a four-game series against Saginaw Valley State University starting at 1:00 Saturday.

Armstrong got was able to take the four runs he got from the Charger offense in the first inning and parlay it into perhaps the finest outing of his four-year career. He threw a four-hit shutout, going all seven innings with three strikeouts. The Oilers stranded nine runners in the game, which meant Armstrong was able to make quality pitches at important times to prevent any damage from being done.

Junior Chris McDonald, the reigning GLIAC North Division Player of the Week, kept up his hot hitting of late in the four-run first for Hillsdale. His double down the left field line brought home Tad Sobieszczanski and Connor Bartlett. McDonald scored what would be the game's final run on a wild pitch two batters later.

Sobieszczanski had a big day for Hillsdale, going 2-for-3 in the opener and 3-for-5 in game 2.

In the second game, Gardner had his best stuff going, picking up his first win of the season. He pitched 7 2/3 innings, surrendering just one earned run and three hits while striking out three batters. Mitchell Gatt struck out the only batter he faced, setting up Dan Pochmara, who recorded his third save of the season with a perfect ninth inning.

In the nightcap, Hillsdale trailed 2-0 in the fifth when a three-run rally gave it the lead for good. Sobieszczanski and Michael O'Sullivan each contributed run-scoring hits in the inning for the Chargers. Nolan Breymaier added an RBI single in the seventh to wrap up the scoring.

Freshman Alex Walts went 2-for-3 with a run scored while O'Sullivan had a run scored, a run batted in and a base hit.