QUINCY, Ill. - The Quincy University baseball team dominated their midweek doubleheader against Hannibal-LaGrange University on Wednesday (Mar. 11). The Hawks smashed 32 hits and nine home runs en route to a 24-2 victory in game one and a 15-2 game two win.

Game 1
The Trojans showed fight in the first inning. Hannibal-LaGrange put up two runs in their first at-bat to go ahead 2-0. 

Quincy was quick to respond in the bottom half. The Hawks plated five runs to answer behind an RBI single from Justin Eads and a three-run home run off the bat of Jacob Kalusniak. 

It was all QU the rest of the way as starting pitcher John Hurayt kept the Trojans off the board in his next four innings of work. 

The Hawk offense put up more than one run in all six innings. The most damage was done in the bottom of the fifth when the home team scored eight runs. 

In that inning, Tyler Carpenter hit a solo home run, Cole Evans had an RBI single, and a wild pitch followed by a passed ball made the score 18-2 QU.

The bottom of the fifth was capped off by yet another home run by Tyler Carpenter, only this time, he drove in four runs with a grand slam. Quincy led 22-2. 

In the Quincy's last at-bat, Eschem Rosenblatt belted a two-run home run in his first career at-bat to give Quincy a 24-2 lead. 

Senior left-handed pitcher Will Conerly worked two scoreless innings of relief and only surrendered one hit. 

Eleven different Hawk batters recorded a hit in the game one victory. 

Game 2
HLGU took an early lead once again the second game, scoring one run in the opening inning to go up 1-0.

The Trojans only scored one more run the rest of the way, as freshman Nolan Roseman went five innings and gave up just seven hits while striking out four.

The Hawk bats stayed hot in game two. QU tabbed three runs in the bottom half of the first on back-to-back-to-back RBI singles from Justin Eads, Tyler Carpenter, and Lane Baremore to take a 3-1 lead.

QU broke the game open with a six-run third inning. Nolan Snyder and Gino D'Alessio roped RBI singles, followed by a sacrifice fly from Nolan Wosman. Lance Logsdon then stepped into the box and crushed a ball over the center field fence for a three-run homer. Quincy led 9-1 after three.

The home team picked up three runs in the next two innings and Wosman put the game out of reach in the sixth with a three-run shot to right field to make the score 15-2.

Jase Wallingford worked two innings of relief and allowed no hits to seal the game two win.

Ten QU batters tallied a hit in game two, with four recording more than one.

Up Next
The Hawks will head to Kansas City this weekend (Mar. 14-15) for a three-game series with Rockhurst University.