Purdue Fort Wayne
Goshen
Mastodons Sweep Twinbill from Goshen College
3/29/2008 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 29, 2008
Fort Wayne, IN - The IPFW baseball team swept a double header from visiting Goshen College on Saturday afternoon at Mastodon Field. The 'Dons took game one, 7-1 and captured the nightcap, 6-0.
The Mastodons pounded out 21 hits in the twinbill, and the biggest came in the first inning of game one.
After singles by shortstop Mark Carden and catcher Devin Taylor, and a walk to centerfielder Jared Davis to open the contest, sophomore first baseman Shaun VanDriessche stepped up and blasted a grand slam over the wall in the left field corner. It was VanDriessche's second homer of the season, and IPFW led, 4-0 after one.
Goshen got one back in their half of the first as centerfielder Sean Doering dropped down a perfect squeeze bunt, so perfect that he reached while right fielder Tom McDowell scored.
The Mastodons added another in the fourth on an RBI single by Davis and closed out the scoring with two in the seventh on RBI's by left fielder Quentin Brown and right fielder Garrett Segraves.
IPFW starter Stacy Herrold went 6.0 innings for the win. He gave up just one run on four hits. He struck out two and didn't walk a batter.
Reliever A.J. Risedorph came on wrapped up the seventh allowing just one hit.
In game two, the Mastodons got three in the 1st inning. VanDriessche plated Taylor with a sacrifice fly, Brown doubled in Davis, and third baseman Jimmy Gilliland chased home Brown with and RBI single to left.
In the second, VanDriessche drove in his sixth and seventh runs of the double header.
IPFW added a single run in the third on a bases-loaded walk by Taylor.
Senior Ben Boehne combined with Scott Well and Jake Hollander for a three-hit shutout.
Boehne got the win going four complete. He gave up one hit, striking out one and walking two. Wells and Hollander also gave up just a single hit, each striking out one and walking one.
With the wins, IPFW improves to 4-15-1. The Mastodons begin Summit League play on April 3 at Southern Utah.
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