Reed Allen leads Baseball in OAC double header sweep at Wilmington

By: Andrew Korba

WILMINGTON -- Freshman Reed Allen went 4-for-7 on the day to lead the Ohio Northern baseball team to a double header sweep of Wilmington on Thursday afternoon at Tewksbury-Delaney Stadium.

The Polar Bears improve to 14-15 and 5-7 in OAC play, while the Quakers drop to 4-25, 1-11.

ONU captured Game 1 11-4 and won Game 2 15-4.

Allen scored four times and also drove in three runners.

In the first game, Allen led off with a single and moved to second on a walk by freshman Grant Wilson.

After an out, sophomore Dan Belliveau singled, scoring Allen and giving ONU a 1-0 advantage.

Belliveau would come around to score on an error later in the inning, giving Northern a 2-0 lead.

The Quakers came right back with two runs in the bottom of the first inning to tie the game at 2-2.

The Polar Bears took the lead back in the second on a bases loaded walk by Belliveau and tacked on another run in the third on a sacrifice fly by freshman Cody Meyer.

WC would plate two more runs in the third inning to tie the game back up at 4-4.

But Northern responded with three runs in the fourth to take the lead for good.

Wilson and Belliveau both walked and senior Cory Martin ripped a triple, scoring both runners to make it 6-4 in favor of ONU.

Senior Kevin Obarski would then reach on an error that scored Martin to make it 7-4.

ONU would tack on four more runs, with Allen, Meyer and sophomore Jack LaMarca picking up RBI's and Martin scoring on a balk.

Junior Matt Magni went five innings to pick up his second win of the season.

In the second game, ONU scored four times in the first on a two-RBI single from Belliveau and a two run triple from Martin.

Northern scored five times in the third inning to make it a 9-0 game.

Freshman Clay Small laced an RBI double and freshman Alex Crabtree drove in two more runs with a double.

Crabtree would come around to score on a passed ball and LaMarca hit a RBI single.

In the fourth, Crabtree hit a RBI single to make it 10-0 in favor of ONU.

Allen would then rip a bases loaded single, scoring Crabtree and Small to make it a 12-0 Polar Bear lead.

Wilmington got on the board with a 3-run homer in the sixth.

Northern came right back with two runs in the seventh on a RBI single from freshman Nick Eltzroth.

Small reached on an error, scoring sophomore Brady Foley and making it 14-3.

The Polar Bears tacked on another run in the ninth.

Freshman Zach Maier gave up three runs in six innings to pick up the win and move to 1-2 on the year.

Ohio Northern will return to action on Saturday, when hosts Baldwin Wallace in a double header that begins at 1 pm. The Polar Bears will also hold Senior Day festivities in between games.