April 21, 2002

BOX SCORE (Game 1)
BOX SCORE (Game 2)

BEREA, Ohio ­ The Wilmington College Quakers dropped both games of a double header on Saturday to conference rival Baldwin-Wallace College by scores of 3-1 and 6-5.

In the first game, the 3-1 defeat, the Green and White took a one run lead after the third inning when Josh Martin (Circleville/Circleville) scored on a wild pitch after singling, being advanced on a single and stealing third base. The Quakers would hold onto their lead until the fifth inning when the hosts scored a run off of a triple and a put-out to tie the game at one. B-W then scored two runs in their half of the sixth inning to give the Yellow Jackets the two run advantage that the Quakers could not overcome.

Tim Hunt (Hillsboro/Whiteoak) paced the Green and White in batting as he hit a perfect 2-for-2 on the game. Martin recorded the team's only run of the game. Derrick Wellington (Unioto/Chillicothe) pitched the complete game, giving up just nine hits and striking out three in six innings of work.

In the final contest of the afternoon, Wilmington got on the board first with two runs in the second inning when Hunt and Kyle Neff (Germantown/Valley View) each knocked in a run. In the third the Quakers would add to their lead when Al Ledford (Blanchester/Blanchester) hit a double, scoring Aaron Lawson (Hebron/Lakewood) who had singled. The Yellow Jackets would rally and grab their first lead of the game, as they ran off four runs in their half of the third inning. After a scoreless fourth inning, the Green and White took the lead back when Ledford knocked in his second RBI of the game, this time scoring Justin Evans (Franklin/Franklin) who had reached base on a single and was advanced along by a walk and Lawson scored while the Yellow Jackets had Ledford in a rundown. The Yellow Jackets quickly responded with another run in their half of the fifth to tie the game and then took the lead with a run in the sixth.

Ledford led the Green and White, batting two-for-two with a pair of RBI's and a run scored. Lawson scored a team high two runs while Hunt and Neff knocked in the other Quaker runs. John Elsen (Fairfield/Fairfield) picked up his third loss of the season, dropping his record to 3-3 while striking out two in 5.2 innings of work.

The losses drop the Quakers' record to below .500 at 13-15 while sporting a conference record of 3-9.

The next game for the Green and White was set for Sunday, April 21, against Thomas More but was rained out. The next scheduled game is set for Tuesday, April 23 as the team takes on OAC foe Capital University with first pitch at 1:00 at Tewksbury-Delaney Field on the Wilmington College campus.