BUCKHANNON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Wesleyan baseball team (7-23) won both games of a doubleheader on senior day over Davis & Elkins (7-23) on Thursday at Hank Ellis Field.
 
Game One (WVWC 14, D&E 7)
 
The Senators scored five runs to open the game. Alec Tamburri entered the game with two outs in the inning and recorded a key strikeout to stop the bleeding.
 
West Virginia Wesleyan responded in the bottom half of the first inning with an RBI groundout by Nick Grotti that scored Sam Ingram. After two strikeouts from Tamburri in the top half of the second inning, the WVWC offense scored five runs in the bottom half of the second. Ingram smacked a base hit to center field to score Tyler Ostendorf. The next at-bat, Grotti laced a single that scored Tanner McCallister to cut the deficit to one run. Cade Leach drew a walk that drove in Ingram to tie the game. The Bobcats took the lead on an RBI fielder's choice by Eric Forbrick.
 
The Bobcat offense got back to work in the third inning. Ingram struck again and roped a two-RBI single to left field. After Davis & Elkins scored a run in the top of the fourth, WVWC produced another five-run inning. Senior centerfielder Bryson Fluke drove in Forbrick and Leach with a base hit to left field. After Fluke stole second and advanced to third on an error, Ostendorf brought him home with a single to left field. After a McCallister base hit, Ingram smashed a two-RBI double into the right field gap to make the score 13-6 WVWC.
 
In the sixth inning, Ingram, a sophomore from Teays Valley, W.Va., collected his fourth hit of game one with a double to left field. Ingram totaled six RBIs in the first game.
 
Tamburri kept the Senator bats quiet and was credited with the win. He struck out five batters in 6.1 innings of work.
 
Grotti, Fluke and McCallister had multi-hit games. Grotti and Fluke each had two RBIs in the game one victory for WVWC.
 
Game Two (WVWC 14, D&E 4)
 
The Senators struck first again and scored two runs in the top of the first inning. The Bobcats bounced back and tied the game in the bottom of the first. Forbrick plated Ingram with a single to center field. Trahern White drove in Grotti with a sacrifice fly to tie the game.
 
The Bobcats added two more runs in the second inning via an RBI groundout from Ingram and a sacrifice fly error from Grotti. The 'Cats extended the lead to four runs on two wild pitches in the third inning.

The Bobcat offense exploded and scored five runs in the fourth inning. Fluke drove in Delgado with an RBI hit. Senior Sam Ross had an infield hit to third and drove in Forbrick. Fluke scored all the way from first to make the score 9-2 WVWC. Ross scored on a wild pitch and increased the Wesleyan lead to 10-2. Ingram drove in McCallister with an RBI single to center field.
 
That would be all the run support starting pitcher Mitchell Courtney would need. The senior from Calvert County, Md. picked up his first win of the season. Courtney pitched 5.0 innings and struck out three hitters.
 
In the bottom of the fifth inning, Andrew Walker ripped an RBI single to center field that scored Forbrick. Fluke drove White home on a sacrifice fly to right field.
 
Forbrick singled in his last at-bat at Hank Ellis Field to extend the WVWC lead to 14-4. Jake Hakey pitched 0.2 innings and struck out one D&E batter in the seventh inning. He gave way to Forbrick, who struck out the last Senator batter to end the game and complete the doubleheader sweep of Davis & Elkins.
 
Up Next
Wesleyan baseball is scheduled to travel to Davis & Elkins on Sunday (May 9) for a doubleheader versus the Senators with the first pitch slated for 1 p.m.