GOSHEN, Ind. – Indiana Wesleyan swept Goshen College Saturday by scores of 18-1 and 15-2. The Wildcats move to 21-8 on the season and a perfect 12-0 in Crossroads League play. 


GAME VITALS

• GAME 1: Indiana Wesleyan 18, Goshen 1
• GAME 2: IWU 15, GC 2
• RECORD: 21-8

INSIDE THE BOX – Game 1

• IWU scored at least one run in each frame and was not challenged in the 18-1 victory.
• Tye Thixton and MJ Stavola each drove in three runs while Luke Roman and Denver Blinn had two RBI's apiece.
• Thixton, Colby Jenkins, Jeff Morton, Lucas Goodin, Stavola and Blake Storr each scored twice.
• Parker Johnson worked one inning and had a strikeout. Hunter Hoffman threw six innings, had 10 strikeouts and gave up just one run on two hits.
• Thixton led off the game by launching a solo homer on a 3-2 count for a 1-0 edge. Goodin scored on a Stavola triple in the second inning. Stavola scored on a Roman base hit.
• Up 3-1 Blinn scored on an error. Tanner Killian doubled home Jenkins for a 5-1 advantage. The Wildcats added one run in each of the next two innings before tacking on six in the sixth on two hits and an error. IWU added five runs in the seventh, including three that came home on a dropped fly ball.

POUNDING OUT HITS

• Eight IWU student-athletes picked up a hit in the opener. In all, the Wildcats pounded out 11 hits and scored 18 runs. 

INSIDE THE BOX – Game 2

• A strong pitching performance by Jake Engelkes with super relief efforts from Braedon Norman and Max Engstrom held the home team to just two runs while posting 10 strikeouts in the huge victory.
• Offensively, Blinn, Jenkins and Stavola had three this apiece. Jenkins drove in three runs while Chris Lopez, Blinn and Stavola each had two RBI.
• Jenkins went three-for-four at the plate, missing out on a double for the cycle. He notched a single, triple and round-tripper.
• Jenkins got the visitors on the board when he came home on a Jeff Morton double in the first. He smashed a three-run homer in the third, which proved to be more than enough for the dominant pitching performance.
• Blinn doubled in Thixton in the fourth. In the fifth, Stavola's double plated Goodin. He came around and scored on a sacrifice bunt. Morton scored on an error.
• In the seventh, Blinn scored on an error. Stavola's double scored Jenkins. He came around to score on an error. Morton crossed home on an error before Lopez doubled in Coy and Luke Roman. Blinn's double completed the scoring for the Wildcats.
• GC scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh for the final tally.

GOING FOR EXTRA BASES

• The Wildcats had 16 hits in the game and nine went for extra bases. The squad rattled off seven doubles, a triple and a round-tripper.

NEXT TIME OUT

• The Wildcats take the field again Tuesday, March 23 when they host Aquinas College (Mich.) at 2:30 p.m.

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