Concord Takes Two at Wheeling Jesuit

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 WHEELING, W. Va. – The Concord University baseball team received dominant pitching performances from seniors Ryan Weatherholtz and Tyler Coyle en route to a series-opening doubleheader sweep of Wheeling Jesuit University Saturday afternoon.
 
Concord downed the Cardinals 5-0 in game one and 6-1 in the nightcap. The wins improve the Mountain Lions' record to 23-11 overall and 20-8 Mountain East Conference competition. WJU drops to 13-17 on the year and 13-13 in league games with the losses.
 
Weatherholtz (4-4) and Coyle (4-2) provided Concord with the starting rotation's fifth and sixth consecutive complete games Saturday. Weatherholtz tossed a five-hit shutout, his second of the season, in the opener while Coyle, the reigning MEC Pitcher of the Week, allowed just one run on eight hits over seven innings in the game two win.
 
Offensively, Concord was paced on the day by senior outfielder Bret Blevins, who went 5-for-7 with two runs, three RBI and two stolen bases.
 
With Weatherholtz, who struck out four batters and did not surrender a walk, dominating the Wheeling Jesuit bats, Concord used a sacrifice fly by sophomore shortstop Brad Sullivan in the fifth inning that scored sophomore outfielder Charles Goss, who doubled and advanced to third on a passed ball earlier in the inning, to take a 1-0 lead.
 
Concord extended its lead to 3-0 when Joe Camp shot a bases-clearing double to right-center field in the sixth inning which plated Blevins and sophomore outfielder Andrew Seigel. CU posted additional insurance runs in the seventh off of a Wheeling Jesuit fielding error and an RBI-single by Blevins. Weatherhotlz retired the Cardinals side in order in both the sixth and seventh innings to ensure the win.
 
Blevins was 2-for-3 with an RBI in the opener. Seigel, Camp, Goss, Sullivan and junior outfielder Ryan Johnston also tallied hits with Seigel stealing a pair of bases.
 
A three-run third inning as well as single-run first, fifth and sixth frames proved to be more than enough offense for Coyle in the Mountain Lions' 6-1 game-two triumph.
 
Already leading 1-0 thanks off of a Blevins RBI in the first, Concord pushed its lead to 4-0 in the third via a run-scoring single by Seigel, an RBI-double from Blevins followed by swift base running from Seigel that saw the speedy centerfielder score on a passed ball.
 
Wheeling Jesuit cut CU's deficit to 4-1 thanks to a run in the fourth inning, before Coyle proceeded to shut down a pair of WJU's comeback attempts in the sixth and seventh by stranding two Cardinal runners on base in both frames.
 
The Mountain Lions added its final two runs on Wheeling Jesuit fielding miscues in the fifth and sixth to give CU the five-run win.
 
Blevins once again led the way on a 3-for-4 performance in game two that saw the Owings, Md. native finish a home run shy of hitting for the cycle. Seigel registered CU's other multi-hit outing with a 2-for-4 game. Seigel also stole his 16^th base of the season, just one off of Blevins' team-high 17.
 
Johnston, Camp, Goss and junior second baseman Jerrod Groves chipped in one-hit efforts to end the day.
 
Concord goes for the four-game sweep of Wheeling Jesuit with a doubleheader Sunday. First pitch of game one is slated for 1:00 p.m.