Baseball Suffers Another Setback Down South
Wartburg tops Suffolk 14-8 as first half of spring trip schedule ends.
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The Wartburg College Knights handed the Suffolk University Baseball team thier fifth straight loss to start the 2014 season on Monday with a 14-8 victory in Auburndale, Florida.
Junior DJ Utley (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) finished a triple shy of the cycle as his 4-for-5 day with four RBI helped pace a 16 hit Knights' attack in the victory.
Wartburg opened the scoring early plating four runs in the top half of the second inning as they took advantage of a pair of Suffolk miscues. With one out Utley struck out but reached first base on a passed ball on the third strike. Senior Joe Grote (Kenyon, Mich.) would knock in the game's first runs with a two run double to deep center before freshman Tyler Mougin (Walford, Iowa) knocked in another run with a base hit and junior Jackson Litterer (Waverly, Iowa) capped the inning off with a run scoring double to right.
Utley would hit a two run homer to left center in the sixth inning and then later drive in a pair of runners as part of a three run eighth inning with his second double of the game.
Senior Jhonneris Mendez (Roslindale, Mass.) drove in four runs of the day for Suffolk, including a bases clearing double to right center with two outs in the sixth.
Senior Devan Jones (Roslindale, Mass.) finished the day 3-for-5, while fellow classmate Jake Cintolo (Wrentham, Mass.) collected a pair of hits in four at bats. Both would score a pair of runs each for Suffolk.
Sophomore Ryan Kemp (Keokuk, Iowa) was 3-for-6 as both he and Utley scored times a piece in the game. Grote and Mouginss also scored a pair of runs each in the game.
The victory improves Wartburg to a 3-3 mark on the young season, while Suffolk falls to 0-5.
Wartburg will be back in action on Tuesday afternoon with a 10:00am scheduled game against Thomas More College. The loss ends the first half of the spring trip for Suffolk as they will head into an off day on Tuesday before squaring off with #20 Bridgewater College (Va.) at 11:30am on Wednesday at Southeastern University.