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FORT MYERS, Fla. – Warm, sunny weather turned to rain for the Swarthmore College baseball team (4-2) as the team split its doubleheader with Salve Regina on Wednesday, March 11 at the Player Development Complex in Fort Myers, Fla. The Garnet won the first game by a 10-8 score before falling 4-2 in five innings during the rain-shortened second half of the twinbill.

Junior Roy Walker went 4-for-5 in the first game and drove in six of the team's 10 runs in the win. Sophomore Ryan Burnett and junior John Lim finished the afternoon with three runs apiece.
 
In the first game, it took only one hit for the Garnet to score five runs in the first inning and jump out to an early lead. Joseph Jackson drove in Wesley Fishburn after a fielder's choice and Burnett scored on a throwing error by the third baseman. Two batters later, Walker hit a three-RBI triple to deep center field and put Swarthmore ahead 5-0.

Walked drove two more home in the fourth inning with a single and drove in Lim in the fifth for his sixth RBI of the game. Salve Regina, however, would score two runs in each of the first four innings to remain in the ballgame.

After two scoreless innings for both teams, Swarthmore took a 10-8 lead in the top of the seventh. Freshman Jaron Shrock knocked a leadoff double down the right field line and later scored on a sac fly by Fishburn. In the bottom half of the frame, the Garnet preserved its two-run lead with a play at the plate for the second out and ended the inning with a strikeout by Griffin Kammerer.

Swarthmore took its two-run advantage into the bottom of the ninth inning and ran into a tight situation with the bases loaded and only one out. Junior reliever Nathan Booth, however, picked up his third save of the early season after a Salve Regina runner was forced out at home and the final batter struck out looking.

Kammerer was credited with his first collegiate win after striking out four and allowing no runs in 3.1 innings.

In game two, the Garnet found itself in an early 2-0 hole after the first inning and fell behind 4-0 after a two-run fourth inning by Salve Regina. In the bottom of the fifth, however, Swarthmore capitalized on its opponent miscues to score two runs.

After Fishburn doubled to right center, a wild pitch on strike three allowed Burnett to reach first and a subsequent error by the catcher brought Fishburn around. Lim's groundout scored Burnett from second and gave the Garnet a manageable, 4-2 deficit entering the sixth.

Salve Regina scored six runs in the top of the inning, but they were erased after the game was called in the bottom of the frame due to heavy rainfall. Swarthmore looks to bounce back when it plays Rivier University in a doubleheader scheduled for Thursday, March 12 at 9 a.m. and 12 p.m.