FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Senior
Teddy Hoxie fired five scoreless innings and the Drew University baseball team closed out its spring break trip to Florida with an 11-1 seven-inning victory over Geneva College Saturday morning.
Hoxie (3-1) carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning before yielding a one-out single. He finished with six strikeouts in his second straight impressive start. In the team's spring break opener on Monday, he carried a shutout into the ninth inning versus Wilkes University.
Seven starters batted safely for the Rangers, including junior
K.J. Hallgren, who went 2-for-2 with three runs scored, and senior
Cole Bosch, who was 2-for-3 with two runs. Freshman
Matt Myers collected three RBIs while classmate
Dallas Lorenzetti scored three runs.
The Rangers posted their second-highest scoring output of the season and plated a run in four of the six innings in which they hit.
Drew jumped to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first, getting a sacrifice fly from Myers and an RBI-groundout from sophomore
Joey Del Sol.
The Rangers pushed across three more runs in the second, starting with an RBI-single from freshman
Zahir McNeil. Two more would score on a throwing error from the catcher during a double steal and a wild pitch.
The Blue and Green put the game out of reach with a four-run fourth. The Rangers had only one hit in the inning but were the recipients of two walks and two hit batsmen. Bosch worked a bases-loaded walk before Myers lofted his second sac fly of the game. Del Sol then grounded in another run before junior
Anthony Diaz capped the inning with an RBI-single.
In the meantime, Hoxie was in command, allowing just two baserunners in the opening four innings - a hit batter in the first and a walk in the third - while racking up five of his Ks.Â
Geneva loaded the bases with a walk and two singles in the fifth. But Hoxie escaped with a groundout.
Drew scored its final two runs in a three-hit sixth, capped by a sacrifice fly from freshman
Mike Borrelli.
Freshman
Tom Wilkie tossed the sixth inning for the Rangers and yielded one run before sophomore
Owen Jaquette worked a scoreless seventh.
Drew continues its season next Saturday, when it opens Landmark Conference play with a doubleheader at Catholic University starting at noon.
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