Baseball Pulls off 13-inning Game to Defeat Miami-Hamilton

(HAMILTON, Ohio)-Thomas More University's baseball team defeated Miami-Hamilton on Wednesday (March 22), 6-5, in 13-innings. The Saints overall record improves to 17-11.

• Junior Gavin Pearson (Burlington, Ky./Cooper) singled in the top of the third inning to send in sophomore Gavin Vogelgesang (Cincinnati, Ohio/St. Xavier) to put the Saints on the board 1-0. Graduate Student Bailey Martin (Independence, Ky./Simon Kenton) stepped up the plate and doubled to score Gavin Pearson to make it a 2-0 game. Senior Derek Atwood (Burlington, Ky./Conner ) would follow and hit a double to score Bailey Martin and extend the Saints lead to 3-0.
• Miami Hamilton scored one run in the bottom of the third and two runs in the bottom of the fifth to tie the game up to 3-3.
• Sophomore AJ Enginger (Hamilton, Ohio/Badin) scored in the top of the sixth innings from a hit ball by Gavin Vogelgesang to push the Saints ahead once again (4-3).
• In the top of the ninth inning, Gavin Vogelgesang would get walked in after batter Derek Atwood was hit by the pitch to put the Saints up 5-3.
• Miami-Hamilton scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game back up again at 5-5.
• Derek Atwood would single in the top of the 13th to send in Gavin Vogelgesang for the winning and help the Saints capture the 6-5 win.

• Gavin Pearson went 4-6 at the plate with one double and scored one run.
• Bailey Martin was 3-5 with a double, one RBI, and scored one run.
• Gavin Vogelgesang went 2-6 with a double, one RBI, and scored three runs.
• Derek Atwood hit 2-5 from the plate with one double and three RBIs.

• Junior Zach Dugan (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder) pitched 5.0 innings and secured the win for the Saints. He allowed two earned runs off of three hits and struck out four.
• Sophomore Jackson Grimmelsman (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder) pitched 4 innings, giving up one earned run off of four hits, and struck out two.
• First year Jack Perdue (Louisville, Ky./Christian Academy) pitched 2 innings, giving up no runs off of one hit, and struck out one.
• Senior Hunter Nantz (London, Ky./North Laurel) pitched two innings, giving up no runs off of two hits, and struck out one.
• First year Tony Spangler (Springboro, Ohio/Springboro) pitched 0.0 innings, giving up two runs with one being earned off of two hits.

The Saints return to action on Saturday (March 25) in a double header against Shawnee State beginning at 2:00 pm ET at Thomas More Stadium.