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Marietta College Athletics

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Winner Mount Union MTU 27-6, 11-2 OAC
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Marietta College MAR 8-19, 5-6 OAC
Winner
Mount Union MTU
27-6, 11-2 OAC
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Final
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Marietta College MAR
8-19, 5-6 OAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Mount Union MTU 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 5 7 2
Marietta College MAR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 X 2 5 2

W: Ty Dennison (7-0) L: Czarnomski, Luke (1-4)

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Winner Mount Union MTU 28-6, 12-2 OAC
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Marietta College MAR 8-20, 5-7 OAC
Winner
Mount Union MTU
28-6, 12-2 OAC
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Final
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Marietta College MAR
8-20, 5-7 OAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Mount Union MTU 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 6 6 0
Marietta College MAR 1 0 0 0 2 0 X 3 6 2

W: Luke Ickes (7-0) L: Wilson, Evan (1-2) S: Christopher Maurer (4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball falls twice to No. 8 Mount Union

MARIETTA, Ohio — Marietta College lost a pair of Ohio Athletic Conference baseball games to No. 8 ranked Mount Union Wednesday (Apr. 22) evening at Pioneer Park. The Purple Raiders won game one, 5-2, and then took the nite cap, 6-3 in seven innings. The second game was called due to lightning.

Marietta moves to 8-20 overall and 5-7 in the OAC. Mount Union improves to 28-6 on the season and 12-2 in the OAC.

Mount Union built a 5-0 lead in the first game. Trevor Szekely got the Purple Raiders on the board with a two-run opposite field home run over the left field wall in the second inning. Mount Added a run in the third, fifth and eighth innings.

Marietta got on the board in the bottom of the ninth. Michael Ciavolella (Tallmadge, Ohio/Archbishop Hoban) led off with a single and following a ground out, Zack Molloy (Chambersburg, Pa./Saint James) hit a towering home run to left center.

Ty Dennison (7-0) went the distance on the mound for Mount Union. He allowed two runs on five hits with one walk and 12 strikeouts. Luke Czarnomski (Medina, Ohio/Medina) (1-4) started and got the loss for Marietta allowing four runs on five hits in 5.0 innings of work.

Ciavolella was the lone Pioneer with two hits in the game.

A four-run fifth inning led the Purple Raiders to victory in game two. Diego DeCello (Hamilton, Ohio/Badin) gave Marietta an early lead with an RBI double in the bottom of the first. Mount Union answered with one run in the second and one in the third off a solo home run from Jake Jung.

In the fifth, a Pioneer error led to four unearned runs for the Purple Raiders. Luke Ickes plated the first run with a sac fly. Daniel Tome had an RBI single, and Chris Tsouras hit a two-run home run.

Marietta tried to rally in the bottom of the fifth. Molloy made it a three-run game with a two-run single.

Ickes (7-0) started and got the win on the mound. He worked 5.2 innings and gave up three runs on five hits with 11 strikeouts. Christopher Maurer got the save throwing one-third of an inning. Evan Wilson (Charleston, W.Va./Capital) (1-2) took the loss after allowing two runs on four hits in 4.0 innings.

Bradley Jones (Louisville, Ky./Ferncreek) had two hits for Marietta.

Marietta hosts Capital for Community Day on Saturday (Apr. 25) at 1:00 p.m.

Fans can follow the Etta Express all year long at pioneers.marietta.edu. You can also follow the Pioneers on Facebook at facebook.com/MariettaCollege and @MariettaPioneer on X and Instagram.
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