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Joey Bolick bats against No. 6 Washington
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Winner Wheaton (Mass.) WHEBB 6-1
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W&J WJC 3-5
Winner
Wheaton (Mass.) WHEBB
6-1
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Final
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W&J WJC
3-5
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Wheaton (Mass.) WHEBB 2 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 6 14 0
W&J WJC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 3

W: Andrew Manni (2-0) L: Drake, Nick (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Drops Matchup with No. 25 Wheaton

AUBURNDALE, Fla. -- The Washington & Jefferson College baseball team dropped a 6-1 contest to No. 25 Wheaton (Mass.) on Thursday morning at the Lake Myrtle baseball complex.
 
The Presidents move to 3-5 on the season while Wheaton advances to 6-1.
 
Wheaton took an early 2-0 lead thanks to a two-run double off the bat of Jacob Studley. The Lyons threatened to do more early damage with runners on first and second before Nick Drake (Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan) coxed a pair of flyouts to end the inning.
 
The Lyons posted back-to-back base hits with two outs in the second inning to prompt a W&J pitching change. Shane Fox (Valencia, Pa./Mars Area) got out of the inning without throwing a pitch as he picked off Brody Ashley at second base.  
 
The Presidents put a runner on the first and second innings, but a double play and caught stealing neutralized the W&J offense.
 
Wheaton put another two runners in scoring position in the top of the third, but Fox worked out of the inning with a flyout to center field.
 
W&J opened the home half of the third with a walk and a single, but a failed sacrifice bunt, a pickoff and strikeout closed the inning.
 
The Lyons added an unearned run in the top of the fourth and W&J placed runners on first and second with back-to-back singles by Joey Bolick (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine-Richland) and Michael Zito (Nashville, Tenn./Hume-Fogg). Wheaton held the Presidents to a flyout and strikeout and escaped unscathed.
 
The Presidents were held off the base paths for the fifth, sixth and seventh innings. Wheaton added two more runs in the sixth and one in the eighth.
 
W&J got on the scoreboard when Bolick singled home Logan Scheider (McDonald, Pa./West Allegheny) with two outs.
 
Bolick had two of the Presidents' six hits and drove in W&J's lone run.
 
W&J used seven pitchers, including Drake who started the afternoon. Fox had the longest outing of the day at 3.2 innings. He allowed two earned runs and posted three strikeouts.
 
Wheaton's Andrew Manni tossed seven shutout innings with five hits and six strikeouts. Ashley, Wheaton's leadoff man, went four-for-four with two RBI and one run scored.
 
W&J wraps up its spring break trip against No. 20 Webster at West Orange High School at 10:00 a.m.
 
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