DUDLEY, Mass. – The Nichols College baseball team swept Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) baseball doubleheader with Gordon College on Saturday afternoon at the Nichols Baseball Field.
Game One: Bison 13, Fighting Scots 7
The Bison struck for eight runs in the eighth to turn a 7-4 deficit into a six-run win. Junior
Will Kleinhenz' RBI bunt single knotted the score at seven before a sac fly off the bat of freshman
William Nath put NC ahead 8-7. Senior
DJ Caron followed with a two-run single and sophomore
Johnny Knox brought home two more on his single through the right side to make it 12-7. Sophomore
Brennan Hyde finished the contest with three hits while Caron and Knox, along with graduate student
Nathaniel Cormier, all had two hits. Senior
Owen Sullivan fanned four in 2.1 innings of scoreless relief to record his first win of the season.
Game Two: Bison 16, Fighting Scots 1
Kleinhenz and junior
Brad Ellis smashed second inning round trippers and Caron belted a three-run shot as the Bison (13-15-1, 5-7-1 CCC) pounded out 15 hits. Caron went 3-for-3 with three runs scored in the contest while Ellis, Cormier, Hyde, and sophomore
Ben Jerome each picked up two hits. Sophomore
Andrew Croteau plated three runs on a two-run double and an RBI groundout. Freshman
Ben Weber scattered four hits and allowed one run in five innings to move to 3-1 on the season. He walked one and struck out four.