Baseball Protects Home Field with Sweep of Dordt

Doane Baseball closed out their weekend schedule with a doubleheader against Dordt on Saturday in Crete. The games were moved to the Tigers' field due to weather and field conditions in Iowa. Doane, the visitor on the scoreboard, took the doubleheader by scores of 7-1 and 11-1.

In the opener, Kaden Crawford held the Defenders to one hit through six innings. In doing so, he allowed his teammates to build a 7-0 lead entering the bottom of the seventh. Crawford finished the game with 7.0 innings pitched, allowing one run on four hits while striking out nine.

Doane took the lead in the third inning on a Nate Mensik RBI-double. Narumi Okayasu added to the lead with an RBI-triple in the fourth inning. Doane opened up their lead in the fifth with three runs. Luke LaChance had an RBI-single and two more runs scored on an error.

In the sixth inning, Doane plated a run on error, and in the seventh, Logan Amick delivered a sacrifice fly for the final Tiger run. Dordt's lone run in the game came on an RBI-double in the bottom of the seventh.

Lukas White, Jack Tillman, and LaChance had two hits apiece as the Tigers finished with 11 in the game. Tanner Black scored twice in the game as the courtesy runner for Tillman.

Dordt took the early lead in game two with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the first inning. Doane came back in the third inning with six runs. White hit a ground-rule double and scored on a triple by Mensik. Justin Nevells singled to drive in Mensik and then came around to score on a single by Brett Meyer. Amick added an RBI-single with a throwing error bringing in a second run on the play.

The Tigers plated five more runs in the eighth inning. Joe Osborn and White opened the inning with back-to-back home runs. LaChance added a two-run single and Amick closed out the scoring with an RBI-single.

Raidyn Steele threw 6.0 innings for the Tigers in his first start and allowed one run on three hits while striking out four. Two of the hits he allowed came in the first inning. Kellan Voggesser threw 2.0 scoreless innings, allowing one hit and two walks while striking out three.

Doane finished with 14 hits in the game as five players had multi-hit games. Amick posted three hits and two RBI to lead the way. Osborn, White, Mensik, and LaChance had two hits apiece. The Tigers had 10 of their 11 runs scored by five players (two apiece), Osborn, White, Mensik, Nevels, and LaChance, the team's 2-3-4-5-6 hitters in the lineup.

Next up for Doane will be their final home regular season doubleheader on Thursday, April 27. The Tigers will host Briar Cliff at 1:00 PM in Crete.