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FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Swarthmore College baseball team (6-2) picked up two more wins on Thursday, March 12 when it swept Rivier University (1-5) by scores of 11-4 and 6-2. Sophomore Wesley Fishburn finished the day with four hits and five runs and freshman Jaron Shrock recorded two doubles, two runs and one RBI in Swarthmore's first win.

Swarthmore head coach Matt Midkiff also earned his 100th victory as a college head coach; he currently has 46 wins at Swarthmore and recorded 54 in four seasons at Eastern University.

After two scoreless innings, the Garnet offense came alive in the next three frames to gain a 9-0 lead over Rivier. In the third, Fishburn singled and then stole his fifth base of the season to put himself in scoring position with one out. An error brought him home and put on second sophomore Ryan Burnett, who promptly stole third. At the next at bat, junior John Lim hit an RBI single to left field to the give the Garnet a 3-0 advantage.

Five more hits came in the fourth with Steven Matos-Torres leading off the inning with a single. Shrock's double brought Matos-Torres to third and a wild pitch scored the sophomore. A single by Trevor Shepherd drove in Shrock and Fishburn capped off the scoring with a home run to left field, the Garnet's first four-bagger of the season.

A four-run fifth inning started on a leadoff double by Joseph Jackson and the Garnet capitalized on two errors and a passed ball to increase the lead to nine. Fishburn added another RBI with a single to center field and Burnet also drove in a run with a two-out double.

Shrock added an RBI in the sixth with an RBI double that scored Gregory Cox and although Rivier answered with three runs in the bottom of the sixth, the Garnet lead was too much for the Raiders to overcome.

Sophomore southpaw Brian Gibbs earned the win, keeping Rivier scoreless through the first four, and freshman Sam Alofsin closed the game with one inning of shutout ball.

In game two, the Garnet used a four-run fifth inning to pull ahead of Rivier and complete the sweep with a 6-2 win. Freshman Jackson Ramey was credited with win after allowing no runs and striking out three in three innings.

Swarthmore gained an early 1-0 advantage in the first after Fishburn reached home on a wild pitch, but did not score in the next three innings. Rivier took the lead in the bottom of the fourth on a two-RBI single, but Swarthmore answered with a strong showing in the fifth frame.

Freshman Cal Barnett-Mayotte began with a single to a right field and advanced to third after Fishburn singled up the middle for his fourth hit of the afternoon. The Garnet loaded the bases after Fishburn stole second and Lim was intentionally walked and scored three more runs on Scoop Ruxin's single and a Rivier error. Ruxin would eventually score on a wild pitch and Swarthmore added an insurance run in the sixth for the final 6-2 score.

The team concludes spring break action in Fort Myers when it plays a doubleheader against St. Joseph's College Long Island on Friday, March 12.