BEREA, Ohio (April 30, 2023) – In a top-15 nationally-ranked matchup featuring two teams that clinched a share of their respective regular-season conference titles just one day earlier, the No. 13 Denison University baseball team came out on top over No. 4 Baldwin Wallace University by a score of 8-4 on Sunday afternoon at Fisher Field.

Denison (28-7 overall) answered a run by Baldwin Wallace (29-7) in the first inning with a four-run top of the second inning. Ari Fierer and Jake Welsch started off the inning with back-to-back singles before Josh Bohn brought them both home with a double to left center field to make it 2-1 Big Red.

Then after a sacrifice bunt by Owen Wilson and a walk by Alex Vasquez, Matt McClements singled to left field to score Bohn before Vasquez scored on a throwing error by the Yellow Jackets' second baseman on the next at bat.

After Denison's starting pitcher George Viebrock (6-2) pitched a 1-2-3 bottom of the second inning, the Big Red added two more runs in the top of the third inning as a two-out rally starting with a single to center field by Welsch and a walk by Bohn led to back-to-back RBI-singles by Wilson and Vasquez to make it 6-1.

Viebrock then got a lineout double play to second base to end the bottom of the third inning and got a swinging strikeout to strand two runners in scoring position in the fourth.

Viebrock pitched another 1-2-3 inning in the sixth before Denison got back-to-back two-out home runs from Fierer and Welsch to make it an 8-1 Big Red lead in the seventh inning.

Viebrock ultimately finished with seven innings pitched allowing six hits, one unearned run and one walk while striking out seven.

Fierer then came in to pitch and got a 4-6-3 double play to end the eighth inning. In the ninth inning, however, the Yellow Jackets scored three runs on five hits before Fierer got a flyout to center field and a groundout to short to end the game.

At the plate, Welsch finished 3-for-4 with three runs scored for the Big Red while Fierer was 2-for-5 with two runs scored.

Entering the final week of the regular season, Denison will wrap up conference action on the road at Oberlin College starting at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2.