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3
Beloit BEL 4-7, 0-1 MWC
10
Winner Grinnell College GCBB 3-7, 1-0 MWC
Beloit BEL
4-7, 0-1 MWC
3
Final
10
Grinnell College GCBB
3-7, 1-0 MWC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Beloit BEL 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 6 3
Grinnell College GCBB 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 5 X 10 12 1

W: Hull, Jake (1-1) L: A. Parnell (0-1)

Jake Hull

Game Recap: Baseball | | Ted Schultz

Late-inning momentum sends Grinnell baseball team to 10-3 victory over Beloit in home opener

GRINNELL, Iowa - Once the Grinnell Pioneers got going Sunday afternoon, there was no stopping them.
 
Trailing 3-2 going into the bottom of the seventh inning, Grinnell struck for three runs and added five more in the eighth as they breezed to a 10-3 baseball win over Beloit College in the home opener at Pioneer Park.
 
The eighth inning saw Grinnell players punch back-to-back-to-back homers, helping the Pioneers to their first-ever home victory over Beloit in a series dating back to 1895.
 
Grinnell had four homers in the game, the sixth-most in program history, while improving to 1-0 in the Midwest Conference and 3-7 in all games.
 
Luke Porter '23 belted two homers for the Pioneers and Jake Hull '24 tossed an inning of hitless relief while striking out two to get his first victory of the season.
 
Beloit, 0-1 in the MWC and 4-7 in all games, got on the board in the first before Grinnell went up 2-1 in the third as Porter belted a two-run homer to left-center to score Nate L'Esperance '23.
 
The Buccaneers scratched out solo runs in the fourth and fifth innings to retake the lead, and that stuck until the bottom of the seventh when L'Esperance hit a ground-rule double to left and later scored on an error. Michael Flaherty '25 followed with a double to left-center to make it 5-3.
 
But Grinnell was far from done. In the eighth, Mac McCain '25 doubled down the left-field line, L'Esperance smashed a two-run homer to center and Porter and Josh Fournier '24 each had solo homers to left.
 
Augustine Ros '25, the fourth Grinnell pitcher, closed the door in the ninth to secure the win.
 
The teams square off again Monday in Grinnell. The first of two games is slated to start at noon.
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Scoring Summary

Score By Innings
Play BEL GCBB
BEL TOP 1st G. Ferone doubled to right field, RBI; A. Fitzpatri scored. 1 0
GCBB BOT 3rd L. Porter homered to left center, 2 RBI; L'Esperance scored, unearned. 1 2
BEL TOP 4th J. Yanow grounded out to 2b, RBI; D. Freitag advanced to third; B. Kiger scored. 2 2
BEL TOP 5th B. Kiger flied out to ss, SAC, RBI; M. O'Leary scored, unearned. 3 2
GCBB BOT 7th L'Esperance doubled, ground-rule, RBI; M. McCain scored. 3 3
GCBB BOT 7th L. Porter reached on an error by ss, advanced to second; L'Esperance scored, unearned. 3 4
GCBB BOT 7th M. Flaherty doubled to left center, RBI; L. Porter scored, unearned. 3 5
GCBB BOT 8th M. McCain doubled down the lf line, RBI; M. Inaba scored. 3 6
GCBB BOT 8th L'Esperance homered to center field, 2 RBI; M. McCain scored. 3 8
GCBB BOT 8th L. Porter homered to left center, RBI. 3 9
GCBB BOT 8th J. Fournier homered to left field, RBI. 3 10

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