SALEM, Ore.—Swarthmore College Baseball dropped both games in Saturday's doubleheader at Willamette University and ended up getting swept by the Bearcats.
A rain delay added more than an hour to the middle of game one and another 20 minutes to the second game before it was ultimately called in the middle of the eighth.
Swarthmore dropped game one 7-4 and game two 10-2. The Garnet went 5-5 in the trip to the Pacific Northwest and are 9-5 overall this season.
Swarthmore 4, Willamette 7
The Garnet scored the first two runs of the game, but a Willamette home run evened the score at 2-2 in the third.
Conor Elliott gave Swarthmore the lead back in the top of the sixth with an RBI single to right that scored
Cole Beeker.
Willamette broke the game open in the sixth inning with five runs and took a 7-3 lead.
After an hour-long rain delay in the seventh inning, Swarthmore got a run back in the eighth on an RBI single from
Jared Gillen.
Swarthmore posted 10 hits in the loss. Beeker led Swarthmore with a 3-for-4 game at the plate and also had a stolen base.
Swarthmore 2, Willamette 10 (8 in.)
Swarthmore fell behind 6-0 after a big second inning by Willamette. Charlie Levitt provided Swarthmore's only runs of the game by smashing a two-run home run to right center to score
AJ Liu as well.
Willamette responded with three more runs in the bottom of the fourth and never looked back. The game was called after the top of the eighth because of rain.
Swarthmore registered five hits in the loss.
Jared Gillen went 2-for-3; Liu, Levitt and
Jackson Roberts had a hit as well.
The Garnet return home and will play at Widener on Tuesday.