Baseball Sweeps Black Hawk in Home Opener

After a 1-6 road trip down south, some home cooking was much needed for the Triton College baseball team. The Trojans made the most of their Symonds-Puckett Field debut in a doubleheader sweep of Black Hawk College March 9 by scores of 9-7 and 12-7.

The pair of games with the Braves kicked off a 10-game home stand for the Trojans.

In game one, Adam Pottinger drove in five runs including a two-out grand slam home run which gave Triton a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the first inning. The Braves scored first on a two-out three-run homer by Cayle Webster.

Black Hawk (0-2) would tie things up in their half of the second on a Petey Kiefer two-out RBI double. The Braves grabbed the lead in the top of the third on a Drew Davis solo homer.

Then Pottinger struck again in the bottom half of the frame with a two-out single to right to drive in Colin Summerhill to even the contest at five.

The Trojans (3-6) went back in front in the fourth inning on sacrifice fly by eventual winning pitcher in relief Jerimiah Cangelosi and a RBI single by Summerhill.

However, Black Hawk would answer again with single tallies in the fifth and sixth innings to even matters at seven apiece before Triton took the lead for good in the bottom of the sixth.

Thomas Schroeder led things off with a triple to left. Then with one out, Summerhill drove Schroeder in with a single. Summerhill would steal second and score on a Brett Morrison single to right past the drawn in Black Hawk infield.

Cangelosi was the third pitcher of the game used by Harry Torgerson and worked around a leadoff double and walk to get Johnny Hernandez to pop out to shallow right to end the game.

In game two the Trojans battled back from a 4-1 deficit to draw even at four-all entering the bottom of the fifth before the bats broke out with a pair of two-out two run home runs by Summerhill and Tommy Benson to go up 8-4.

Triton would add four more runs an inning later to put the game out of reach.

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