Top teams keep winning

Waynesburg opened the 2011 season on Tuesday at home with a doubleheader against Pitt-Greensburg. The Yellow Jackets needed every second of late-winter sunlight to complete the doubleheader, but made good use of the time as they won a pair of thrilling 3-2 contests to sweep the twin-bill.

Ken Gregory tied things up with an RBI triple in the bottom of the ninth and scored the winning run as second ranked Kean defeating visiting Muhlenberg, 5-4, in non-conference action. In the win the Cougar pitching staff combined for 18 strikeouts, the most for a single-game in modern record keeping. 

Shenandoah celebrated its rise to No. 4 in the nation with a 17-6 non-league victory over Franklin & Marshall Tuesday afternoon. Shenandoah broke open a tie game versus the Diplomats by scoring five runs in the fifth. Senior Travis Lee smacked a single into center field with two outs in the eighth inning to drive in the winning run in Franklin’s 5-4 baseball victory over St. Vincent this afternoon. Junior right-handed pitcher Shawn Mattingly went the distance, striking out seven batters while walking just one, to earn his first win of the season.

The 12th-ranked Trinity (Texas) Tigers won their 11th consecutive game with a 7-4 come-from behind non-conference victory over the Mary Hardin-Baylor Crusaders at the Trinity Baseball Field. Senior catcher Kyle Felix gave the Tigers the lead, with a two-RBI double to left center. Felix is currently four doubles away from setting a Tiger all-time record.

Mississippi College baseball team lost their third straight game with a 6-3 defeat at the hands of cross-town rival Millsaps on Tuesday night at Frierson Field. The Choctaws out hit the Majors, 10-8, but could not take advantage of four Millsaps errors. 

Rhodes defeated North Carolina Wesleyan 6-5 at Stauffer Field this afternoon on with a 2 out, 2 RBI walk-off double by sophomore third baseman Lynden Pindling.  The Lynx overcame a 2 run deficit in the bottom of the ninth to earn their 4th victory of the season.

Christopher Newport, ranked 25th in the nation, broke through with a four-run eighth inning to take the lead and held on for the 6-3 final over Piedmont on the road today. Christopher Newport won their tenth straight game, tying for the third longest winning streak in program history, led by leading slugger Connor Madden, who went 4-for-4 with his team-leading fourth home run of the season.

Washington (Mo.) scored eight unanswered runs and capitalized on a number of Greenville miscues to win its 2011 home opener, 8-3, on Tuesday afternoon at Kelly Field.