PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (March 14, 2023) – During its final day of action at the Snowbird Baseball Classic at Centennial Park, the No. 13 Denison University baseball team finished up its suspended game against Arcadia University with a 25-23 win in 10 innings. The Big Red then returned to the field to take on Stevens Institute of Technology but dropped an 8-4 decision.
 
Game 1 (No. 13 Denison 25, RV Arcadia 23)

• After a 23-23 tie when the game was suspended in the top of the eighth inning on Monday, the two teams both squandered doubles in the ninth inning and remained tied until Denison took the sixth lead change of the game in the top of the 10th inning.
• The 10th inning for the Big Red started with a leadoff walk by Erik Sundgren, who stole second base to get into scoring position and then scored on the ensuing single up the middle by Eric Colaco.
• In the bottom of the 10th and facing a two-run deficit against George Viebrock (2-0), Arcadia started things off with a bunt single before putting the tying run on base two batters later with a single to left field.
• That was followed by another single to load the bases and put the winning run on base before Viebrock got a called strike three followed by a lineout to center field to finally end the marathon game.
• In all, the game featured a combined 42 hits and 21 walks, but only five errors. There was also a total of 15 doubles and 11 home runs.
• 17 different pitchers made their way to mound while 31 position players entered the contest.
• 11 different players had two or more hits and 11 had two or more RBI's while nine scored two or more runs. Lastly, four players had two doubles and three and had two home runs.
• For Denison, Charlie Glennon was 5-for-6 with six runs scored, five RBI's, two doubles, a triple and a home run; Colaco was 4-for-6 with six runs, three RBI's, three walks, a home run and a double; Noah Leib was 5-for-5 with five RBI's, three runs, three walks, two home runs and two doubles; Jake Welsch was 4-for-5 with three runs, three RBI's, a home run and a double; and Ari Fierer was 3-for-8 with seven RBI's, three runs, two home runs and a double.
• Various individual records were broken for the Big Red against Arcadia, including at bats (8; Ari Fierer), runs scored (6; Eric Colaco and Charlie Glennon) and total bases (13, Noah Leib).
• In addition, Fierer tied the Big Red record with seven RBI's while the pair of home runs by both Fierer and Leib also tied the record.
• Viebrock finished with three innings pitched allowing just five hits, no runs and no walks while striking out three to right the ship from the mound for the Big Red.
• The top of the first inning for Denison started with a one-out home run by Colaco before a three-run homer with two outs by Leib. In the bottom of the first, however, Arcadia got a leadoff walk followed by an RBI-double to get on the scoreboard, all before a three-run home run to tie it at 4-4 still with nobody out.
• The Big Red added three more runs in the top of the second inning, with the final two coming on a two-out, two-run homer by Welsch, but then the Knights struck back with nine runs on seven hits in a bottom of the second inning that featured two three-RBI doubles.
• Two batters into the bottom of the third inning, the second home run of the game by Anthony Bruno brought in two runs before a sacrifice bunt by the Knights later on in the inning made it 16-7.
• Denison got two runs in the top of the fourth as Colaco led off with a walk, advanced to third on back-to-back wild pitches and then scored on a triple to right field by Glennon, who then scored himself on the ensuring RBI-groundout by Fierer.
• In the fifth inning, Colin Ravin led off with a double before a two-out, two-run home run by Glennon. Then the two-out rally for the Big Red saw four straight doubles by Fierer, Welsch, Leib and Max Fishbein to help Denison get to within two runs of Arcadia at 16-14.
• Denison took back the lead in the top of the sixth inning when with one out, Sundgren singled through the left side and was followed by back-to-back doubles by Colaco and Glennon to tie it at 16-16. Then the fourth straight hit for Denison, which was a two-run home run by Fierer to also score Glennon, gave the Big Red an 18-16 lead.
• Arcadia hit another three-run homer with nobody out in the bottom of the sixth to retake the lead at 19-18 before Fierer answered with a three-run shot of his own for his second home run of the game to make it 21-19 Big Red in the top of the seventh.
• With no outs in the bottom of the seventh, Arcadia hit an inside the park grand slam to jump ahead 23-21, but in the top of the eighth, Leib led off with his second home run of the game to get the Big Red back to within one at 23-22.
• Then with two outs in the top of the eighth, Colaco singled to shortstop to tie the game at 23-23 before the game was suspended with the Big Red threatening with two outs and the bases loaded.

 
Game 2 (No. 13 Denison 4, Stevens 8):

• After Denison stranded runners at the corners in the bottom of the first inning, Stevens capitalized with a pair of unearned runs on a Denison fielding error with outs in the top of the second inning.
• Then after the Big Red left another runner in scoring position in the bottom of the second, the Ducks pushed across two more runs in the top of the third inning after a leadoff triple and followed by another Denison error and then a two-run double.
• Fortunately, the Big Red defense was able to keep its deficit from getting any worse as a flyout to center field was followed by an out at the plate on the throw by Sundren to end the top of the third inning.
• A 1-2-3 top of the fourth inning for Cade Nowik was followed by a bottom of the fourth that saw the Big Red get three runs back after a leadoff double to left field by Welsch, who scored two batters later on a single up the middle by Josh Bohn to get Denison on the board. After Bohn's single, a walk by Owen Wilson was followed by a wild pitch to put both Bohn and Wilson into scoring position, and then Sundgren delivered his second hit of the game with a single to right field to bring in both runners and make the score 4-3 in favor of the Ducks.
• Stevens went ahead by a score of 5-3 after back-to-back one-out doubles in the top of the fifth inning, but after another 1-2-3 frame by Nowik in the top of the sixth, Denison got to within one run again at 5-4 thanks to a leadoff home run to left field by Bohn in the bottom half of the sixth.
• Unfortunately, after another run for Stevens in the top of the seventh inning, Denison left two runners on in the bottom of the seventh and then had a runner thrown out at home to end the bottom of the eighth.
• With the bases loaded and nobody out in the top of the ninth inning, a wild throw home by the Big Red allowed a pair of unearned runs to score for the Ducks to make it 8-4,  and then Denison went down 1-2-3 in the ninth to end it
• Sundgren finished 3-for-3 with two RBI's for Denison while Bohn was 2-for-4 with two runs, two RBI's and a home run and Welsch was 2-for-5 with a double.

 
Records:

• Denison moved to 7-3 on the season with its first win over Arcadia (5-6) in three tries since the two teams first played in 2017. All three meetings between the two teams have come during the Snowbird Classic in Florida.
• Arcadia, which began the season ranked No. 15 in the D3baseball.com/NCBWA Preseason Top-25 poll and is now receiving votes, is the sixth team to be either ranked or receiving votes in the national poll the Big Red have battled against in their first 10 games of the season.
• It was also the first-ever matchup for the Big Red against Stevens (8-5).

 
Next Up: In its final game in Florida, Denison will take on Farmingdale State College at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 15, as part of the RussMatt Central Florida Baseball Invitational at the Lake Myrtle Sports Park in Auburndale.