CALDWELL, Idaho – Benedictine-Mesa pitching handcuffed the College of Idaho, limiting the Yotes to just nine hits on the afternoon, as the Redhawks swept a doubleheader at Wolfe Field.
BenU (7-4) got a big three-run homer from Christian Camacho in a 5-1 victory in the opener and used two four-run innings in the 9-2 win in Game 2.
The Arizona squad opened the scoring in Game 1 in the second – as Travis Hunt tripled deep down the right field line and scored on a David Ortiz RBI single through the drawn-in infield. The Redhawks would make it 4-0 in the fifth, as Camacho blasted the long bomb – into the wind – over the left field wall.
Trailing 5-0 in the seventh, the Yotes (2-6) avoided the shutout as
Chase Labbe singled, with pinch runner
Mike Kirby scoring on a
Nick Mooney RBI single.
Isaac Parra had three of BenU's 12 hits, with starter Brandon Barnes striking out seven in six shutout innings for the win. Five different C of I hitters had one hit apiece, as the Yotes went 1-for-8 with men in scoring position.
The Redhawks dominated Game 2 – scoring four times in the second inning on just one hit, capitalizing three stolen bases and a pair of C of I errors. BenU would push the lead to 8-0 in the fourth, as Marshall Forest lined a bases clearing single on a two-out, 3-2 pitch.
C of I would score both of their runs in the eighth – without the benefit of a hit. Four walks and a hit by pitch helped the Yotes cause, with a run scoring on a wild pitch and another on a
Cole Kramer sacrifice fly.
Parra was 4-for-4 in the win for BenU, with lefty Ryan Wicketts tossing seven innings of three-hit ball for the win.
Austin Van Horne had the lone multi-hit game for C of I, going 2-for-4, while
Nathan Pena allowed an unearned run in five innings of relief.
The two teams close out the five-game series tomorrow with an 11 a.m. single-game.
