FORT MYERS, Fla.–The Swarthmore College baseball team picked up a win and a loss on Tuesday, March 7 with a 13-2 rout of Hiram and a 10-1 defeat to Alvernia.

The Garnet offense came alive in game one with 14 hits and 10 RBIs for its best output of the season. Max Grullon was 4-of-5 at the top of order with three runs and two RBIs. Conor Elliott finished with a two each of runs, hits and RBIs while freshman Kenji Yoshii and Holden Bridge both had a pair of base hits.

Sawyer Lake had a strong outing on the bump, pitching 7.2 innings with two runs, none earned, and nine strikeouts to two walks. William Line cleaned up the final 1.1 frames with one hit allowed.

Swarthmore scored a run in each of the first seven innings and led 13-0 entering the eighth. Grullon started the game with a single up the middle and scored two batters later on a double by Cole Beeker down the left field line.

In the second, the Garnet doubled up on Yoshii's sac fly to plate Jared Gillen. Swarthmore piled on five runs over the next three innings and put the game out of reach with four in the sixth, including a two-RBI triple from Elliott.

The offense faced a setback in the nightcap against Alvernia with two hits and one run. Starting pitcher Ryan Warm was charged with the loss, but allowed no earned runs and struck out eight in five innings on the mound.

The young Garnet went toe-to-toe with the Crusaders for the first three innings before surrendering ten in the next three. The lone run in the game came on a double from James Rutledge that was supplemented by two bases after an errant throw from the left fielder reached the dugout.

Swarthmore has a quick turnaround with 9 a.m. game against Rockford on March 8, followed by a 12 p.m. contest versus Baruch.