BEREA, Ohio – The No. 3 nationally ranked Baldwin Wallace University baseball team clinched a share of the Ohio Athletic Conference regular season title as it sweeped Otterbein University in a doubleheader by scores of 7-3 and 11-4 at Fisher Field.

BW (28-4, 13-1 OAC) clinches a share of the OAC regular season title for the second straight year after a doubleheader battle between the top two teams in the conference. The Yellow Jackets played from behind early in the first game thanks to an Otterbein (23-10, 9-5 OAC) homer in the first. After trading a few early leads, the Brown and Gold were able to seal the victory by holding the Cardinals scoreless in the last seven innings. The Yellow Jackets owned Game 2 from the jump after combining for ten runs on 13 hits in the first four innings followed by a strong team performance on the defensive end. BW can clinch the OAC regular season title outright and earn the right to host the conference tournament for the second year in a row with a win in next week's doubleheader against Capital University.

Game 1

Scoring Plays

• Bottom 1st - Sophomore second baseman Jace Druschel (Tampa, Fla/George Steinbrenner) answered an early Cardinals homer with a two-run double
• Bottom 2nd - Junior designated hitter Mally Kilbane (Olmsted Township/Olmsted Falls) tied things up with an RBI single
• Bottom 2nd - Senior third baseman Nick Clark (Willowick/Notre Dame Cathedral Latin) hit a sac fly to regain the lead for the Brown and Gold
• Bottom 4th - Kilbane added a two-run shot to dead center
• Bottom 7th - Senior third baseman Max Anastasio (Chesterbrook, Pa./Conestoga) tacked on an insurance run with an RBI single

At the Plate

• Kilbane led BW with three RBI and added two hits
• Anastasio was the fourth Yellow Jacket with two hits as he went a team-best 2-for-3 with an RBI
• Junior right fielder Brandon Gelpi (Monroeville, Pa./Central Catholic) went 2-for-4 with a double and a single
• Druschel finished with two hits and two RBI

One the Mound

• Junior right hander Vince Dolcemaschio (Los Angeles, Calif./Windward School) picked up his sixth win of the season after throwing seven innings where he struck out four and gave up only one earned run on four hits and three walks
• Freshman righty Jake Heatherington (Bellaire) struck out two and walked two in his two innings of relief

Game 2

Scoring Plays

• Bottom 1st - Gelpi got the scoring started with a sacrifice groundout
• Bottom 2nd - Freshman catcher Mason Fixx (Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan) hit a solo moonshot over the left field fence
• Bottom 2nd - Kilbane hit his second bomb of the day with a three-run round-tripper
• Bottom 2nd - Druschel collected his third and fourth RBI of the day after a single to left
• Bottom 3rd - Junior center fielder Joey Marousek (North Royalton) singled to drve in another run for BW
• Bottom 3rd - Kilbane hit a sac fly to right for his fourth RBI of the game and seventh of the day 
• Bottom 4th - Anastasio added a double down the line to extend the Yellow Jacket lead
• Bottom 7th - Clark drove in a run to answer Otterbein's four-run sixth

At the Plate

• Marousek went a perfect 3-for-3 to lead the Yellow Jacket offense
• Kilbane tallied a new career-high four RBI
• Clark also added three hits and an RBI
• Gelpi and sophomore second baseman Matt Terzola (Uniontown/Archbishop Hoban) each added two singles

On the Mound

• Sophomore right-hander Tyler Walker (Fairlawn/Copley) earned his conference-leading seventh win of the season after pitching six innings, including three no-hit innings, where he allowed four runs on five hits and tallied two strikeouts
• Senior right-hander Matt Sabin (Mentor) closed the door on the Cardinals in the final three innings where he only gave up one walk in his second save of the year

The Yellow Jackets are back in action tomorrow Sunday, April 21 when they travel to Oberlin for a non-conference game against Oberlin College at 1 p.m. at Dill Field.