GNAC Baseball: WOU Sweeps Saint Martin

Wolves move to 8-2 in conference play.

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MONMOUTH - Western Oregon’s Kevin Corrigan and Mike Eisenhauer combined to hold Saint Martin’s bats to just six hits on the day as the Wolves swept the Saints in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference baseball doubleheader on Saturday, 4-1 and 3-1.

The wins improved conference-leading Western Oregon’s record to 8-2 in the GNAC and 18-15 overall. Saint Martin’s fell to 12-22 on the year and to 4-6 in GNAC play.

The two teams will wrap-up the four-game series on Sunday at noon.

Corrigan tossed a complete-game three-hitter in the opener, walking only one batter and fanning six.

The senior right-hander was only in trouble in the fifth inning, when back-to-back singles by Shane Schoeneberg and Richard O’Neill set the table for Curtis Thibault’s sacrifice fly.

Schoeneberg’s hit broke up Corrigan’s perfect game, but no other Saint runner went past second base the rest of the way.

WOU managed only four hits against Saints’ starter Pat Capone.

But Capone walked six Wolves and hit four more, and the Saints defense contributed three errors to the cause.

WOU scored in the third inning without a hit, added another run in the fourth on only one hit, and then scored two in the eighth with only one base knock.

Schoeneberg had two of SMU’s three hits, while David Navarette had two of WOU’s four.

In the second game, Eisenhauer also tossed a complete-game three-hitter, allowing only one run, no walks and eight strikeouts in the seven-inning contest.

SMU plated a run in the first inning after back-to-back doubles by Nate Baker and Adam Siler, but the Saints would get only one more hit on the afternoon—a single in the fourth inning by Craig Yuhas.

Western Oregon slapped 10 hits off of SMU’s Tip Wonhoff, but could only manage three runs.

Corrigan drove in two runs with a triple in the third inning, and Paul Fisher would single home another run in the fourth.

Randy Summers was 3-for-3 in the game for the hosts, while Coubi Jiles and Tony Jones both had two hits in three trips to the plate.

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