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Hillsdale's Brenden Smith delivers a pitch during a victory over Ohio Dominican on March 27, 2026.
Ashley Van Hoose
0
Ohio Dominican OHIO DOM 9-12
8
Winner Hillsdale HILLSDAL 10-12
Ohio Dominican OHIO DOM
9-12
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Final
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Hillsdale HILLSDAL
10-12
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Ohio Dominican OHIO DOM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Hillsdale HILLSDAL 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 X 8 12 0

W: Smith, Brenden (3-2) L: Jaxson Stried (0-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Chargers get first shutout of 2026 in dominant Friday win over Ohio Dominican

The Hillsdale College baseball team kicked off a weekend G-MAC series with Ohio Dominican with one of its best performances of the season, blanking the Panthers in an 8-0 victory on Friday for the Chargers' first shutout of the season.

Starter Brenden Smith was excellent on the mound for the Chargers in the best start of his career, pitching eight shutout innings with four strikeouts, three walks and just two hits given up to earn his third victory of the year. In the ninth, reliever Winston Delp was able to work his way out of a bases-loaded jam with no outs to preserve the shutout for the Chargers, finishing with one strikeout.

With Smith pitching a gem, Hillsdale gave the sophomore all the run support he needed in the first inning, loading the bases with singles by Gaard Swenson and Nolan Coppens and a walk by Ryan Wiehe. Swenson would score on a sacrifice fly by Jake Figman to give the Chargers an early 1-0 lead, and Figman would double Hillsdale's lead in his next at-bat in the third inning with a two-out RBI double to score Coppens.

Hillsdale's offense went quiet for the next four innings after that, generating just one hit in the fourth through seventh innings, but the Chargers exploded for six runs in the eighth inning to put what had been a 2-0 contest out of reach. Figman started the scoring with a RBI single for his third run driven in of the game, and Tyler Sowers added a RBI triple, Aaron Jasiak a two-run double and Swenson hit a RBI single to make it an 8-0 game entering the ninth.

Coppens and Figman each had impressive games at the plate, finishing with three hits. Coppens had two doubles in the game, while Figman finished with a double and three RBIs. Swenson went 2 for 5 for Hillsdale as well, and Billy Porotsky added a single and a stolen base.

Hillsdale is now 10-12 overall, 6-3 in the G-MAC and keeps pace with Ashland, who also won on Friday night, for second place in the G-MAC North Division. The Chargers have three more games with the Panthers this weekend, including a doubleheader tomorrow beginning at 1 p.m.
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