Box Score
The DBU Patriots won 11-6 on Saturday afternoon sweeping the Siena Saints on the weekend and improving their season record to 5-2. The Saints fall to 1-8 on the season.
Leading the Patriots at the plate was Junior Ryan Enos, who went 4 for 5 with a homerun, two RBI and three stolen bases.
Patriot starting pitcher Chris McMullen improved to 2-0 on the season, picking up the win after pitching six innings, allowing four runs, three earned and striking out three. The loss went to the Saints relief pitcher Ryan Polawski dropping him to 0-2 on the season.
Junior Ben Palmer added three innings of relief allowing two runs and Junior Michael LaCourse pitched a scoreless ninth.
The Saints managed to put two runs on the board in the top of the second inning off of McMullen, one earned and one unearned after a Patriot error.
The Patriots answered with two runs of their own in the third inning when Junior Chris Haney hit an RBI single after a Freshman Landon Anderson singled. Sophomore Jason Krizan added a sacrifice fly to center to score Junior Ryan Goins, who reached on a walk, making the score 2-2.
The Patriots added another run in the bottom of the fourth when Enos singled and stole second and later scored on a throwing error by the Siena catcher.
The Saints evened even the score 3-3 in the fifth inning, and then took the lead in the sixth off an RBI single.
Freshman Ryan Behmanesh and Senior Clay Kelly singled in the sixth. Freshman Ben Mrachek reached on a RBI fielder's choice and Enos added a single. Goins walked to set up a two RBI single by Sophomore Chris Haney to give DBU a 7-4 lead after six innings.
Siena added single runs in the seventh and eighth innings off relief pitcher Freshman Ben Palmer.
The Patriots answered with a four run seventh to extend their lead and added three more runs in the eighth on homeruns by Senior Trevor Head and Enos, to close out the Saints and capture the Patriots third straight victory, 14-6.
The Patriots are back in action as they host the Rice Owls at Dr Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, Texas, on Wednesday, March 4.
