Ashland University's baseball team started a key Great Midwest Athletic Conference series at Walsh with two victories on Friday (April 14) – 4-0 and 3-1 in 10 innings.
Northwood continues to lead the Great Midwest North Division at 17-1 in the conference, but the Eagles moved into second place at 24-10 overall and 15-3 in the league after their 11
th and 12
th wins in the last 15 outings. The Cavaliers are 17-13, 12-4 following their eight-game winning streak being snapped.
In addition to getting win No. 24 in 2023, Ashland head coach
John Schaly now has 900 career wins guiding the Eagles (900-477-4, .653).
In Friday's first game, sophomore left-handed pitcher
Brendan Beaver threw his first complete-game shutout of 2023 – allowing five hits and a walk and striking out seven over nine innings. Beaver's season statistics move to a 5-0 record and a 1.36 earned-run average, a WHIP of 0.85, and an opponents' batting average of .184. His current scoreless innings streak is at 20 2/3 innings.
The top of the 10
th inning of Game 2 saw sophomore center fielder
Cam Miller break a 1-1 tie with an RBI double, then sophomore first baseman
Sam Witt added the insurance run with an RBI single.
Junior right-hander
Zac Common threw two hitless innings with a walk and three strikeouts to move to 5-1 out of the bullpen.
NOTABLES
- Miller was 3-for-5 with an RBI in Game 1, as Ashland racked up 13 hits. Miller went 3-for-4 with a double, run scored and an RBI in the nightcap.
- Senior right-hander Josh Meyer kept the Eagles in Game 2, going eight innings and yielding six hits, a run and four walks and whiffing one. His season ERA dropped to 2.08.
UP NEXT
Ashland and Walsh will finish the series on Saturday (April 15) at 1 p.m. in North Canton.
