MEADVILLE, Pa. -- In a game that featured four home runs and a slew of pitching changes, the visitors from the College of Wooster defeated the Allegheny College baseball team, 13-7, in the 2025 home opener at Robert M. Garbark '32 Field on Wednesday.

In a classic midweek, non-conference showdown, Allegheny (5-5) and Wooster (3-7) used a combined 10 pitchers to finish all nine innings on a seasonably warm March afternoon. Both teams brought out the bats, but the Fighting Scots jumped ahead 8-1 through the first four innings and never looked back.

A two-run home run in the third and back-to-back triples in the fourth helped Wooster roar ahead in the early going. In the fifth, however, the Gators showed comeback potential with a five-spot of their own. Tyson Bryant-Dawson (Oakland, Calif./Manvel (Texas)) slugged a no-doubt grand slam in the fifth that shaved the deficit down to 8-5 in favor of the Fighting Scots. Tyler Skaggs (Champion Heights, Ohio/Champion) then doubled and scored on a Tommy Landsnes (Richmond, Va./Brunswick Academy) two-out base knock, which made it a two-run game and chased another Wooster reliever from the mound.

Just when Allegheny began to gather momentum, the Fighting Scots answered. After an error allowed one run to score, Nick Pett hit a two-run homer, extending Wooster's lead back to 11-6.

Allegheny's Nick Banez (Edmonds, Wash./Meadowdale) added a solo shot in the eighth, but that was the only run Wooster right fielder Alex Gerdenrich allowed after moving to the mound to close out the last 3.2 innings.

Inside the Box Score

• Allegheny scored seven runs on seven hits with seven men left on base.
• Wooster more than doubled Allegheny's hit total with 15 hits, including two triples and two home runs.
• Defensively, the Gators committed six errors, resulting in four unearned and one team unearned run.
• Bryant-Dawson finished 2-for-5 with a grand slam and a game-high four RBIs.
• Skaggs was 1-for-2 with a double, two walks, and two runs.
• Banez had two runs and two RBIs, and his lone hit was a solo home run.
• Matt Jennings (Birmingham, Mich./Brother Rice) was tagged with the loss after giving up seven runs (five earned) on seven hits in 3.0-plus innings.
• Lucas Bauer (Saint Marys, Pa./Saint Marys Area) paced all pitchers with a game-high five strikeouts in the final 2.0 innings.
• Zack Barienbrock and Leo Widtmann led Wooster's offense with three RBIs apiece.
• Gerdenich received the win with 3.2 innings of one-run ball and three strikeouts.

News and Notes

• Allegheny and Wooster met for the first time since splitting a doubleheader on April 23, 2022, as members of the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC).
• The Gators have hit at least one home run in three of their last four games.
• Bryant-Dawson crushed his team-leading third homer of the season.
• Banez, a junior infielder, hit the first home run of his career against the Fighting Scots.
• First-year outfielder Liam Irving (Olney, Md./Sherwood) has reached base safely in all 10 games so far in 2025.

Up Next
The Gators will trek to the Flower City to face the University of Rochester in a non-conference doubleheader on Saturday, March 15, beginning at 12:00 p.m.