CALEDONIA, Mich.– The Kalamazoo College baseball team swept a doubleheader against Albion College Friday at Davenport University. The Hornets now have 13 wins in a row, a program record for the longest winning streak.
Game 1: Kalamazoo 7, Albion 1
Caleb Moore doubled home Ryar Rinehart to put the Hornets up 1-0 in the first inning. Two Albion errors helped Kalamazoo add two more runs in the third.
The Britons pushed across one run in the top of the fifth, but the Hornets added two of their own in the bottom half to make it 5-1. Two more Albion errors let to another pair of runs for Kalamazoo in the seventh, closing out the scoring at 7-1.
Logan Lockhart (4-1) was strong on the mound for the Hornets, throwing 5 2/3 innings allowing just one run on six hits and two walks with five strikeouts. Parker Aten entered to a bases-loaded jam in the sixth, retired the first batter he faced to get out of it, and added three more scoreless innings in relief for his first career save.
Rinehart scored two runs with two RBIs in the win. Cade Preissing also scored two runs, while Moore chipped in two RBIs.
Game 2: Kalamazoo 12, Albion 7
Moore again came through with a two-out RBI in the first to put Kalamazoo up 1-0. Albion struck back with two runs in the second, but Preissing ripped a bases-clearing triple in the bottom half and later scored to make it 5-2.
Both teams pushed across one run in the third, and the Britons scored two more in the fourth to make it 6-5. The Hornets chipped in one in the sixth, three in the seventh and two in the eighth to pull back away.
Albion got two runs back in the ninth. Kalamazoo outhit the Britons, 14-6, in game two.
Owen Schihl got the win for 1 1/3 scoreless innings in relief with two strikeouts. Cole Bronoel-Cuthrell threw 3 1/3 innings of strong work out of the bullpen with five strikeouts.
Austin Keur and Robert Newland picked up three hits apiece to lead the Hornets in game two, with Keur scoring three runs. Preissing led all players with 5 RBIs as well.
Kalamazoo (21-2, 5-0) and Albion (15-9, 3-3) finish their series on Monday at Albion, with game time set for 4 p.m.