DUBUQUE, Iowa - The University of Dubuque baseball team showed no signs of the marathon of innings played on Saturday and would take Sunday's opener 10-2. The Wartburg College Knights would only win game four of the weekend series by a score of 7-2, but it was the Spartans who opened American Rivers Conference play with a 3-1 record.
UD finished the first game on Sunday scoring 10 runs off 11 hits and committed just one error despite a strong south wind. Starting pitcher
Anthony Scanlon would go the distance for UD and would pitch seven complete innings and allowed two runs on eight hits with seven strikeouts. Only two extra base hits in favor of the Spartans. Jake Sekander would collect a double and
Max Snowden led the offense with a 4-4 plate appearance with a double.
Hunter Martindale would go 2-2 with 2RBI's and teammate
Cole DeStefanis would end the afternoon 2-4 with an RBI.
Kyle Radi finished the day 1-3 with 2RBI's and
Colton Pfeifer in relief at right field was 1-2 with an RBI.
In the second game on Sunday, the Spartans would score a run in the third, a run in the sixth and leave six runners on base in a 2-7 loss. UD was held to two runs off six hits and committed four errors.
Cole DeStefanis would lead the offense after going 2-3.Starting pitcher
Jake Cekander took the loss after allowing five runs (only one earned) off five hits in 2.1 innings of action. Cekander would collect one of the two RBI's in the loss along with teammate
Patrick Rafferty.
The Spartans are in a three-way tie for second place in the A-R-C after UD, BV, and Coe all finished 3-1 for the opening weekend series of baseball. Central, Wartburg, and Simpson all finished the weekend 1-3, while Nebraska Wesleyan University was winless 0-4.
The Spartans 3-6 overall will next travel to Decorah, Iowa to play the Luther College Norse on Friday, March 26 and Saturday, March 27. The Norse were on a bye week and will open their conference season against the Spartans. UD will host Westminster College (Mo.) on Good Friday, April 2 on Dan. W. Runkle Field in a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.