Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 WOOSTER, Ohio – In a battle of the top two teams in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) East Division, Wooster took early leads in both ends of Saturday's doubleheader and withstood a late game one comeback attempt by the Gators to sweep Allegheny on Saturday afternoon at Art Murray Field.  Wooster would win game one, 9-6, before taking a 15-2 decision in the nightcap.

Junior Zach Gray finished the afternoon 4-for-7, slugging .625 while scoring a run for the squad.  Senior Mike Pezzone scored three hits and drove in a run, while freshman Jacob Shick, the reigning Allegheny Male Athlete of the Week, scattered a pair of hits while driving in a team-high two RBI.  Junior Ben Murray and sophomore Joe Killian joined Shick by scattering two hits apiece, while Killian crossed the plate a team-high three times. 

The Fighting Scots recorded a .453 team batting average on Saturday, launching four home runs, while the Wooster pitching staff held the Gators a .292 batting average, finishing the two games with a 1.69 earned run average.

Wooster started the afternoon with two home runs in the first inning of game one, tacking on two additional runs in the third to take a 4-0 lead heading into the fourth.  Killian reached base for the Gators on a Wooster miscue in the top of the fourth, eventually scoring on a Pezzone double to put a run on the board for the Gators.  After Wooster grabbed another run in the bottom of the frame, Senior Kyle Davis hit into a fielder's choice that allowed junior Adam Bronson to score, once again cutting the deficit to three.

Entering the sixth trailing 9-2 after Wooster plated two runs in the fifth, the Gators began to rally in the bottom of the sixth.  Killian sent a one-out single up the middle on a 2-2 count, advancing to second after another Wooster error allowed Gray to reach base.  Bronson singled to right to bring home Killian before a double down the left field line by Murray drove home Gray to bring the Gators to within five. 

Junior Paul Vojtek pitched a scoreless sixth to open the door for the Allegheny comeback in the seventh.  Senior Shane Regel started the rally with a single to left center on a 3-2 count.  After a double to left by junior Eric Weyant advanced fellow third year R.J. Baker to third, Shick grounded out to the shortstop for the first out of the inning, allowing Baker to score and give the Gators their fifth run of the game. 

With one out in the inning, a Killian groundout brought home Weyant to cut the Wooster lead to three. However, the Wooster pitching staff would shut the door on the Allegheny comeback, clinching the game one win two batters later.

Wooster scored 12 runs in the first three innings, holding the Gators scoreless until the fourth, when Gray drove home Killian to put Allegheny on the board.  Sophomore Matt Sardini scored the other Allegheny run in the seventh after a single through the left side by Shick.  Gator hitters stranded 10 runners on base, as Wooster put the finishing touches on the Saturday sweep with the game two offensive outburst.

Allegheny will return to Art Murray Field on Sunday to complete the four-game weekend series before returning to Robertson Complex on May 3 in the NCAC Crossover Series.