REDLANDS, Calif. -
Alex Henderson hit two home runs and
Nate Seluga capped off a nine-run seventh inning with a pinch-hit grand slam as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps baseball team earned a 20-6 win over Redlands in the first on a three-game series with the Bulldogs on Friday.
The win was the 12th in a row for the Stags, ranked No. 10 by the ABCA and No. 12 by D3baseball.com, and improves their record to 16-3 on the season. CMS had a six-run fifth and a nine-run seventh on its way to a season-high 20 wins.
Andrew Mazzone was 3-for-5 with a homer and four RBI and
Bryce Didrickson added a home run and was 2-for-3 with four runs scored.
Slader Spoor drove in three runs, including a two-run double.
Parker McGraw got the with with 2.1 innings of relief, striking out three.
Didrickson's two-run homer put CMS up 5-1 in the fourth, but Redlands came back to tie it 5-5 in the bottom half. Mazzone hit a two-run double to break the tie, and came home on a double from
Dillon Martin, before Henderson blasted a two-run shot to make it 10-5. Spoor's sacrifice fly scored Didrickson to cap off the six-run frame.
Spoor's two-run double stretched the lead to 13-6 in the seventh, before
Charlie Kalil singled him home, and Mazzone followed with a two-run homer. Seluga then cleared the bases with a grand slam to cap off the scoring.
The two teams will finish the series tomorrow with a doubleheader at La Verne.