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Jared Booth
Cory Hall
6
Buena Vista Univ. BVUBB 5-1
7
Winner Grinnell College GCBB 1-2
Buena Vista Univ. BVUBB
5-1
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Final
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Grinnell College GCBB
1-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Buena Vista Univ. BVUBB 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 0 6 7 2
Grinnell College GCBB 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 7 14 3

W: Richman, Will (1-0) L: Smart (0-1)

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Buena Vista Univ. BVUBB 5-2
6
Winner Grinnell College GCBB 2-2
Buena Vista Univ. BVUBB
5-2
5
Final
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Grinnell College GCBB
2-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Buena Vista Univ. BVUBB 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 5 7 0
Grinnell College GCBB 1 0 0 0 0 5 X 6 11 1

W: Jack, Ryan (1-0) L: Scott (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Ted Schultz

Late-inning heroics, school record by Williams, propel Grinnell baseball team to sweep of Buena Vista

TOPEKA, Kan. - Late-game heroics in both ends of a doubleheader propelled the Grinnell College baseball team to a sweep of Buena Vista University on Sunday.

A school-record performance by Justin Williams '21 was also critical in the first game, as he converted three sacrifice hits to tie the Grinnell mark shared by Ryan Penaflor and Teague Towner. In the game, the Pioneers scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh to force extra innings against a team receiving votes for the NCAA Division III rankings. 

After holding Buena Vista scoreless in the top of the eighth, the Pioneers pushed across a run to secure the 7-6 victory. Grinnell finished off the sweep as a five-run sixth inning erased a four-run deficit and resulted in a 6-5 victory.

Grinnell pounded out 14 hits in the opener, including a three-hit performance by Sean Richardson '23 and two hits from Quinton McNitt '21, Jared Booth '21, Carson Gampell '20, Brock Weirather '21 and Jack Hager '20. Hager had a triple among his totals and Booth a double.

Will Richman '22, the fourth Grinnell pitcher, worked a hitless eighth inning to earn the win.

The Pioneers took a 3-0 lead in the opener, scoring solo runs in each of the first three innings. McNitt's single to left and an error accounted for the first run, Hager had an RBI triple to center in the second and Gampell an RBI single to center in the third.

Buena Vista rallied to tie it at 3-all before Grinnell went up again in the bottom of the fifth on Weirather's run-scoring single to right.

The Beavers came back, though, erupting for three runs in the top of the seventh for a 6-4 lead. Not to be outdone, Weirather and Richardson each had RBI singles to center in the bottom of the seventh to force a tie.

After Richman sat the Beavers down in the top of the eighth, Hager began the bottom of the inning with an infield single and later stole second and third before scoring on an error.

In the second game, Weirather went 3-for-3 at the plate while Matthew Inaba '22 and Gampell each had two hits. Gampell had two doubles among his totals and Booth one.

Ryan Jack '22, the third Grinnell pitcher, threw hitless ball over two innings to get the win.

The Pioneers scored in the first inning on Weirather's RBI single to center, but the Beavers scored once in the second and third innings, twice in the fourth and again in the fifth for a 5-1 lead.

Grinnell went wild in the bottom of the sixth, though, as Gampell belted a two-run double to left-center, Booth knocked in two runs with a double to right-center and Inaba plated another with an infield single.

The Pioneers shut down the Beavers in the top of the seventh to improve to 2-2 while sending Buena Vista to 5-2.

During the weekend, Hager moved up to fourth on the Pioneers' career triples chart with eight and Gampell is now sixth in putouts with 556 and eighth in chances with 584.

Grinnell returns to Topeka next weekend to face the University of Wisconsin-Superior in four games.
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