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Andrew Tucker
6
Cornell College CCBB 14-23, 11-12 MWC
7
Winner Grinnell College GCBB 13-8, 13-8 MWC
Cornell College CCBB
14-23, 11-12 MWC
6
Final
7
Grinnell College GCBB
13-8, 13-8 MWC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Cornell College CCBB 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 6 12 0
Grinnell College GCBB 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 2 7 10 0

W: Lane, Simon (1-1) L: Rosenthal (0-1)

2
Cornell College CCBB 14-24, 11-13 MWC
7
Winner Grinnell College GCBB 14-8, 14-8 MWC
Cornell College CCBB
14-24, 11-13 MWC
2
Final
7
Grinnell College GCBB
14-8, 14-8 MWC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Cornell College CCBB 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 8 0
Grinnell College GCBB 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 X 7 11 1

W: Witte, Josh (3-0) L: Kriegel (1-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Ted Schultz

Grinnell baseball team celebrates Senior Day with thrilling sweep of Cornell as win streak reaches 8

GRINNELL, Iowa - It was a celebratory day for the Grinnell College baseball team, and the Pioneers played like it.
 
Grinnell posted a doubleheader sweep of Cornell College on Senior Day Saturday, rallying in the first game to win 7-6 and then earning a 7-2 decision in the nightcap at Pioneer Park.
 
The wins pushed Grinnell's mark to 14-8 both overall and in the Midwest Conference South Division as the Pioneers remained in the divisional title race. Grinnell has now won eight games in a row, its longest streak since the historic 2016 campaign.
 
In the opener, Grinnell came back from deficits of 5-2 and 6-5 in the final two innings. Quinton McNitt '21, Jared Booth '21 and Cooper King '21, among the 14 seniors playing their final games at Pioneer Park, had two hits each.
 
After Cornell went up 2-0, McNitt cut the gap in half in the third with a solo homer to left. The Rams, who are 14-24 overall and 11-13 in the MWC South, added a run in the fifth before Zeke Taylor '21 blasted a solo homer to left in the sixth to again bring the Pioneers within a run.
 
Cornell got solo runs in the seventh and eighth for a 5-2 lead, but the Pioneers stormed right back in the bottom of the eighth. Booth led off the barrage with a solo homer to left, Taylor pushed across a run on a sacrifice bunt and Evan Borberg '24 singled to right field to tie the game at 5-all.
 
Cornell got a run in the top of the ninth, but the Pioneers tied it in the bottom of the inning on Booth's RBI triple to right-center. With the bases loaded and Taylor at bat, Booth scored from third on a passed ball to send the hosts into celebration.
 
Simon Lane '23, who tossed two-hit ball over the final two innings, got the pitching win.
 
The Pioneers carried that momentum into the second game, breaking out to a 5-0 lead through two innings on their way to victory. Brock Weirather '21 had a two-run single to left in the first inning and Nate L'Esperance '23 added a run-scoring single to center.
 
In the second, Sean Richardson '23 scored on a passed ball and Booth hit a sacrifice fly to center to make it 5-0.
 
Cornell got a run in the third, but the Pioneers tacked on two in the fourth when L'Esperance knocked in a run on a fielder's choice and King hit an RBI single to right. The only other run was by Cornell in the seventh inning.
 
Richardson, Booth and L'Esperance all had two hits for Grinnell and Josh Witte '24 got the pitching win, striking out 10 and surrendering four hits in six innings.
 
Grinnell closes out its regular season against Knox College Sunday. The doubleheader in Galesburg, Ill., begins at noon.
 
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