Baseball beats Penn St.-Behrend to cap off 22-win season
The Muskingum baseball team beat Penn St.-Behrend in its season finale on Sunday afternoon, 7-4.
Penn St.-Behrend
20-16
4
Muskingum
22-18
7
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3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 2 |
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1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 7 | 5 | 0 |
May 7, 2023
The Muskingum baseball team beat Penn St.-Behrend in its season finale on Sunday afternoon, 7-4. The win capped off a 22-win season for the Muskies.
The Basics
- Records: Muskingum (22-18 Overall), Penn St.-Behrend (20-16 Overall)
- Location: Mose Morehead Field
- Attendance: 125
Notables
- Muskingum's 22 wins are the most since the 2010 season when the Muskies won 23 games.
- Muskingum senior Dominic Gorence went 2-for-3 to end his Muskie tenure with 100 career hits, which are tied for 63rd all-time at Muskingum.
- Senior Clark Jennings made his 19th appearance of the season on the mound, which is tied for third all-time for a season. He also is tied for 11th all-time with 45 career appearances.
- Sophomore Weston Melick ended the year with 23 doubles to set the single-season record. He also ranks sixth in hits with 64 and 11th in RBIs with 45.
- Sophomore Tobie Teke swiped three bases to end the year with 21 stolen bases which are tied for sixth for a season.
- Junior catcher Ryan Schwartz ended the year with 15 doubles which are tied for sixth for a season.
- Junior Wyatt Reeder notched 32 stolen bases during the year, which ranks second all-time for a season.
- Senior Joey Bystricky made his first career appearance in a game and retired the lone batter.
The Game
- Muskingum scored seven runs on five hits.
- Freshman Sheadon Sullivan earned the win after firing five relief innings of five-hit ball and zero runs with two strikeouts. He moved to 2-0 on the year.
- Freshman Jackson Duchesne pitched the final two frames and allowed one run on two hits.
- Senior Jake Hymrod led the team with three RBIs.
- Reeder added two RBIs to help pace the Muskies.
- Gorence went 2-for-3 with a run scored.
- Teke scored a pair of runs and had three stolen bases.