ORANGE, Calif. - After dropping a 4-1 decision to Chapman in the series opener on Friday, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps baseball team bounced back at the plate to record 30 runs, taking 13-5 and 17-0 wins over the Panthers on Saturday, to earn the series victory. 

CMS now stands at 6-3 overall on the year and 5-1 in SCIAC play, while Chapman slips to 1-8 overall and 1-5 in the league. 

Andrew Mazzone homered three times in the doubleheader, including twice in the opening game to help get the Stags jump-started offensively. Bryce Didrickson added a three-run homer in the opener, while Jack Potter added a homer and three RBI in the nightcap, Max Pemberton had three RBI, and Matthew Bergan (three hits in six innings) and Henry Connell combined on a shutout. 

CMS was down 3-0 early in the opener, before Mazzone hit his first of two homers to cut it to 3-2. The fourth inning saw the Stags seize control with a four-run rally. Keegan Cabrera scored on a Careter Bennett RBI single, and Mazzone followed with his second home run of the game, a three-run shot to left field, pushing the score to 6-5 in favor of CMS.

In the sixth inning, CMS extended its lead decisively. Potter tripled and scored on a Dillon Martin double, and Didrickson capped the inning with a three-run homer, making the score 10-5. PJ Wendler delivered an impressive relief performance over three innings, striking out three and yielding no hits or runs, earning the win. Lucas Welch closed the game, pitching a scoreless inning with two strikeouts.

The nightcap was over early, as CMS scored seven times in the second and sixth in the third to go ahead 13-0. Blaise Heher had two RBI singles in the inning, opening the scoring and then capping it, Keegan Cabrera drove one in with an RBI single, Pemberton had an RBI double, Mazzone drew a bases-loaded walk, Martin had a two-run single, and Heher drove home his second run of the inning with a single to third.  

Pemberton started the scoring in the third with his second RBI double and came home on the round-tripper from Potter. After a Bennett single, Mazzone hit his third homer of the day to make the score 12-0. Didrickson added an RBI single in the fourth, and Bennett capped off a three-run rally in the seventh with a single. 

Bergan allowed just two infield singles through his first five innings, one via a bunt, before Chapman had a single to left-center with one out in the sixth.

CMS will be back in action when it hosts Puget Sound for a four-game series at Azusa Pacific, beginning with a single game on Friday, followed by a doubleheader on Saturday and a single game on Sunday.