BEREA, OHIO -- Senior All-Mideast Region and CAPITAL ONE Academic All-American left fielder Brendan Toughey (East Amherst, N.Y./ St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute) and junior third baseman Brad Gugliotta's (Twinsburg) each had multi-hit and multi-run batted-in games as the Baldwin Wallace University baseball team outlasted John Carroll University, 13-10, in a slugfest today in the second game of an Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader at Heritage Field.  JCU took the first game, 7-6.

The doubleheader split improves BW to 13-4 overall and 3-1 in the OAC.  John Carroll falls to 13-7 overall and 2-2 in the OAC.  Both teams combined for 27 hits and 17 of the game's 23 runs were earned.

A sacrifice fly by junior Jimmy Spagna and a run batted-in single by senior Aaron Miller in the top of the first inning gave the Blue Streaks a 2-0 lead, but BW tied the game in the bottom half of the inning after back-to-back fielder's choices by sophomore second-team All-OAC first baseman Kyle Chontos (Pickerington/ North) and freshman designated hitter Hunter Handel (Akron/ Green).

The Yellow Jackets exploded for five runs in the second inning and took a 7-2 lead.  Toughey and sophomore right fielder Alex Green (Pickerington/ North) sandwiched a pair of RBI triples around Gugliotta's run-scoring single, and Handel grounded out to second base to score Green.

JCU tied the game, 7-7, on a fielder's choice by Miller and RBI single by sophomore Mark Huddle in the third, and a three-run double by Huddle in the fourth.

A two-out double by sophomore Bobby Sabatino and run-scoring single by Mitchell Herringshaw in the fifth frame gave the Blue Streaks an 8-7 advantage.

Gugliotta tied the game on a sixth-inning single that scored Toughey, who lined his team-high-tying seventh double of the season and sixth hit of the day.

The Blue Streaks took their third and final lead of the game, 9-8, in the seventh frame after a Sabatino double scored junior Chet Lauer, who drew a lead off walk.

BW sent 10 batters to the plate in the bottom of the seventh and scored five runs to retake a 13-9 lead.  Senior All-OAC center fielder Nolan Neuschaefer (Elyria/ Senior) sparked the rally by lining a bases loaded single that scored Handel, who lined a double to lead off the inning.  Toughey then reached base on an error by Sabatino, scoring freshman second baseman Mark Zimmerman (Akron/ Green), who was hit by a pitch.  Neuschaefer and junior catcher Chaz McGrain (Valley City/Olmsted Falls), who also was plunked, scored on Gugliotta's single--his sixth hit of the day--and Toughey later scored when Chontos reached base on an error.

Sophomore right-hander Anthony Alioto Jr. (Mayfield Heights/ Mayfield), who came on in relief with one out in the seventh, closed the game by retiring six of the 10 batters he faced to secure the victory, allowing just one run to score in the ninth on a passed ball.

Gugliotta was 3-for-4 at the plate with four RBI and three runs scored.  Toughey was 3-for-5 with a double, triple, three RBI and four runs.  Both players finished the doubleheader with six safeties and combined to go 12-for-16 with seven RBI and 10 runs over the two games.  Green and Neuschaefer also recorded two hits each.

Sophomore right-hander Brian Taricska (Bay Village/ Bay) made his third start of the season and allowed two runs (all earned) on two hits and walked three batters in two-thirds of an inning.  Junior right-hander Dylan Fodor (Twinsburg), making his second relief appearance of the day, surrendered two runs (all earned) on three hits and walked one.  Freshman righty Brandon Cichocki (Walled Lake, Mich./ Central) worked two and two-thirds innings and allowed four runs (all earned) on six hits, struck out three and walked one.  Freshman righty Tom Loeffler (Shaker Heights) pitched one and one-third innings and allowed one run (earned) on two hits and struck out three batters and walked one.  Alioto recorded the final eight outs of the game, gave up one run (uneared), fanned two, and earned the win to improve to 1-0.

BW returns to the diamond tomorrow at NCAA Division I the University of Dayton at 4:00 p.m. before facing the University of Mount Union on Saturday, April 6 in an OAC doubleheader at 1:00 p.m. in Alliance, Ohio.

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