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Ryan Jack
9
Winner Grinnell College GCBB 15-8, 15-8 MWC
2
Knox College KCBB 3-28, 1-20 MWC
Winner
Grinnell College GCBB
15-8, 15-8 MWC
9
Final
2
Knox College KCBB
3-28, 1-20 MWC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Grinnell College GCBB 0 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 2 9 10 0
Knox College KCBB 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 7 3

W: Jungers, Ryan (2-3) L: Davin Conway (1-6)

10
Winner Grinnell College GCBB 16-8, 16-8 MWC
3
Knox College KCBB 3-28, 1-21 MWC
Winner
Grinnell College GCBB
16-8, 16-8 MWC
10
Final
3
Knox College KCBB
3-28, 1-21 MWC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Grinnell College GCBB 0 1 3 0 0 2 2 0 2 10 15 0
Knox College KCBB 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 5 2

W: Jack, Ryan (1-0) L: Saverio Scumaci (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Ted Schultz

Pitchers establish school strikeout record as Grinnell stretches winning streak to 10

GALESBURG, Ill. - Establishing a new school record was the perfect conclusion to the Grinnell College baseball team's 2021 regular season.
 
Three Pioneers combined to strike out 18 Knox College batters in the second game of Sunday's twin bill, breaking the previous mark of 17 established twice, including earlier this season.
 
Grinnell also tied a school record for sacrifice hits in the game with five, and Sean Richardson '23 tied the individual mark for sacrifices with three.
 
Grinnell won that contest 10-3 after earning a 9-2 victory in the opener as the visitors stretched their winning streak to 10 games, the program's longest string since 2016.
 
More impressively, Grinnell's winning clip of 66.7 percent is the second-highest in modern program history, only behind the 78.9 percent win percentage of the 2016 squad.
 
Whether the season stretches beyond Sunday is yet to be seen. Grinnell leads the Midwest Conference South Division with a 16-8 mark, a half-game ahead of Illinois College's 15-8 record and Monmouth College's mark of 14-7. The Blueboys have one makeup game left and Monmouth three.
 
Ryan Jack '22 struck out 14 batters in the second game, the fifth-highest mark in program history. He tossed three-hit ball over six innings. Grinnell belted out 15 hits, including two each by Quinton McNitt '21, Brock Weirather '21, Cooper King '21, Riley Guieb '21, Evan Borberg '24 and Matthew Inaba '23. McNitt was also hit by pitches three times in the doubleheader as his school-record total reached 34.
 
The Pioneers got on the board in the second inning on Zeke Taylor's '21 RBI sacrifice bunt to the pitcher and never looked back. In the third, Jared Booth '21 had a two-run single and King knocked in another run with a single for a 4-0 lead.
 
After Knox closed within 4-1, Grinnell scored twice in the sixth inning on RBI singles by Inaba and McNitt and twice more in the seventh on Taylor's RBI sacrifice to first base and Guieb's run-scoring single.
 
Knox climbed within 8-3 before the Pioneers added some insurance in the ninth on an RBI single by Inaba and McNitt's run-scoring lineout.
 
Ryan Jungers '23 threw five-hit ball over 6-1/3 innings of the opener and Grinnell had 10 hits, including two each by Richardson, Weirather and Guieb. Richardson had a two-run double in the third inning, Taylor added a sacrifice fly to center in the fourth and Guieb an RBI lineout in the fourth for a 4-0 lead.
 
Weirather followed with RBI singles in the fifth and seventh innings and Borberg walked with the bases loaded in the seventh for a 7-0 cushion. Knox closed within 7-2, but Inaba and McNitt had bases-loaded walks in the final inning to give the Pioneers some breathing room.
 
Grinnell improved to 16-8 overall, while Knox fell to 1-21 in the MWC South and 3-29 overall.
 
As for Grinnell's fate in the MWC South title race, the Tom Petty lyrics sum it up best - the waiting is the hardest part. Monmouth and Illinois College square off Monday in a makeup game, and Monmouth faces Knox in a twin bill Tuesday in another makeup. Only the division champ advances to the MWC title series against North champion Beloit College or the University of Chicago.
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