The No. RV Ashland University baseball team continues to stay within striking distance of first-place Northwood in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference's North Division after two wins to open the series at Tiffin on Saturday (April 12) – 8-1 and 3-0.
Thanks to a now-10-game winning streak and 21 wins in the last 23 outings, the Eagles are 27-8 overall and 16-2 in the Great Midwest – two games behind the Timberwolves in the North. The Dragons are 13-22, 5-13.
Ashland head coach
John Schaly continues to climb the NCAA all-time, all-divisions wins list. Schaly now has 1,341 career victories – one away from tying Southern California's Rod Dedeaux (1,342) for 21st on the NCAA list.
Saturday's opener saw AU waste no time jumping on top, as junior shortstop
Collin Overholt's RBI single in the top of the first inning made it a 1-0 game. Then, in the third, RBIs from freshman designated hitter
Gage Weaver (single) and Overholt (sacrifice fly) upped the Eagle lead to 3-0.
Graduate left fielder
Max Caron came across on a wild pitch in the fifth for a 4-0 Eagle advantage, then Ashland's fifth run was posted later in the fifth on an RBI from junior second baseman
Gavin Dobbels, courtesy of the Dragons' first error of the afternoon.
In the sixth, senior third baseman
Jeremiah Cangelosi collected a run-scoring single to make it a 6-0 game. The eighth saw Caron add an RBI single, and Cangelosi a sac fly, for an 8-0 score.
Senior right-hander
Cam Scott (4-1) took a no-hitter into the eighth inning in the opener, and saw his consecutive scoreless innings streak end at 26 1/3. Scott allowed three hits, a run and three walks and struck out seven.
Overholt's sac fly in the second put the Eagles ahead early in Game 2, then a Dragons error allowed AU's second run to come across in the fourth. Junior first baseman
Sam Witt launched a solo home run, his second homer of the season, in the sixth for the final margin of victory.
SHRINKING ERAS…AND THE REST OF THE STORY
- Thanks to his consecutive scoreless innings streak, Scott's season earned-run average has dropped to 3.29.
- In the opener, Cangelosi went 3-for-3 with two RBIs, and redshirt freshman center fielder Sean Krueckeberg was 3-for-5 with a double and two runs scored.
- Senior righty Hunter Allen (6-0, 1.42 ERA) went the first five innings in the nightcap, allowing a hit, no runs and six walks and striking out six. Senior lefties John Essig (two-thirds of an inning, two strikeouts, 0.47 ERA) and Brendan Beaver (1 1/3 innings, strikeout for his second save) finished the shutout.
- Saturday's second game was AU's fourth shutout of 2025. The Eagles had four in all of 2024.
- Witt (3-for-3, homer, RBI, three runs scored) and Cangelosi (2-for-3) had all five of AU's hits in the second game.
UP NEXT
The third and fourth games of the series at 1 p.m. on Sunday (April 13).
