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Connor Goodson
Brett Crawford
8
Grinnell GRINNELL 4-4
9
Winner Wis.-Whitewater UWW 4-0
Grinnell GRINNELL
4-4
8
Final
9
Wis.-Whitewater UWW
4-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Grinnell GRINNELL 1 0 2 0 0 1 2 0 2 8 12 2
Wis.-Whitewater UWW 0 1 3 0 0 3 0 1 1 9 11 1

W: J. Koenig (1-0) L: Runkel, Jakob (1-1)

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Edgewood EDGEWOOD 0-4
12
Winner Grinnell GRINNELL 5-4
Edgewood EDGEWOOD
0-4
8
Final
12
Grinnell GRINNELL
5-4
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Edgewood EDGEWOOD 0 0 1 0 4 3 0 0 0 8 15 2
Grinnell GRINNELL 1 3 0 0 0 4 2 2 X 12 14 0

W: K. Kajita (1-1) L: A. Williams (0-1) S: M. Nakamoto (3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Ted Schultz

GC baseball team nearly topples nation's No. 1 team during split on Tuesday

Grinnell loses to UW-Whitewater by a run, bounces back to defeat Edgewood

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Grinnell College's baseball team broke out the bats Tuesday, and in the process nearly toppled the nation's top-ranked team.

The Pioneers piled up 20 runs on 27 hits in a split on the opening day of the Blue Wahoos Challenge at Admiral Fetterman Field.

Grinnell battled toe-to-toe with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, the defending national runner-up and current No. 1 team at the NCAA Division III level. The Warhawks needed a run in the bottom of the ninth to eke out a 9-8 victory. In the Pioneers' second game of the day, they rallied for a 12-8 win over Edgewood College to improve to 5-4.

The Pioneers outhit UW-Whitewater 12-11, with the balanced attack featuring two hits apiece from Mac McCain '25, Connor Goodson '26, Stuart Cash '27 and Cole Philpott '25.

McCain came across on an error in the top of the first, but the Warhawks tied it in the second. McCain belted a two-run double to left-center in the third for a 3-1 lead, only to see UW-Whitewater counter with four runs in the bottom of the inning.

Grinnell tied it in the sixth on Cash's solo homer to left, but again the Warhawks came back in the bottom of the frame with three runs. Cash's two-run single through the left side in the seventh brought the Pioneers within 7-6, with UW-Whitewater countering with a run in the eighth. In the top of the ninth, Sean Tashjian '25 lofted a sacrifice fly to left and Philpott hit an RBI single to left to tie the game. The Warhawks answered with a run with two out in the bottom of the ninth to secure the win.

UW-Whitewater improved to 4-0 while giving up a season-high run total to an opponent.

Jakob Runkel '26 was the tough-luck losing pitcher, scattering three hits and fanning three in 3.2 innings of relief.

Grinnell trailed Edgewood 8-4 before tallying eight unanswered runs for victory. The Pioneers had 15 hits, with Cash getting three and McCain, Philpott and Jacob Gaynor '28 adding two each.

The Pioneers went up 4-0 in the first two innings, with Goodson hitting an RBI single to right in the first and Ethan Crawford '25 knocking a two-run single to center in the second and McCain crossing the plate on an error.

Edgewood, 0-4, scored once in the third, four times in the fifth and three times in the sixth. Grinnell put up four runs in the bottom of the sixth to tie it, with bases-loaded walks to McCain and Goodson, a bases-loaded walk by Crawford and a sacrifice fly to center from Tashjian.

Gaynor belted an RBI triple down the right-field line in the seventh and McCain plated a run with a single to right. In the eighth, Cash had an RBI triple to center and Ben Skiles '28 hit a run-scoring single to left-center.

Kenji Kajita '25, the fourth Grinnell pitcher, got the win with 1.1 innings of hitless ball. Matthew Nakamoto '25 worked two innings and struck out two for his third save of the year.

McCain moved to sixth in GC history for career RBIs with 94 and fielding assists with 232, seventh in at-bats with 478 and ninth in runs scored with 102. Crawford ranks third in career hit by pitches with 22 and eighth in RBIs with 88.

The Pioneers face Sewanee at 4 p.m. local time Wednesday.
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