DANVILLE, Ky. – The Centre baseball team played a Saturday doubleheader against the Sewanee Tigers after a 3-1 win in Friday's series opener. After dropping the first game 6-5, Centre rebounded with a 4-0 shutout in the rubber match to take the series.
 
Game 1: Sewanee 6, Centre 5
 
- Both teams got on the scoreboard in the first inning. Trailing 1-0, Centre scored a pair of runs their first time at the plate. Teddy Holloway worked a bases loaded walk to score Dillon Di Iorio, and then Matthew Maggard's RBI groundout plated Ben Prather.
- The Colonels added two more in the second inning as Centre had runners on second and third following a Jamie Laframboise single, a Perry Nadreau walk and a series of stolen bases. Di Iorio poked one into right field for his second hit of the day to give Centre a 4-1 edge.
- Sewanee rallied to tie the game in the third and then both offenses stalled. In Centre's half of the fifth, Holloway lined a base hit up the middle, stole second, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on a sacrifice fly by Chase Austin to retake the lead at 5-4.
- The lead would not last as Sewanee tied the game in the seventh and took the lead in the eighth. The Tigers retired the last seven Centre hitters to take the win.
 
Game 2: Centre 4, Sewanee 0
 
- Prather got the start in the seven-inning game and pitched his way out of an early jam by inducing a 4-6-3 double play in the first inning.
- Centre quickly took the lead in the first inning as an RBI groundout by Austin scored Di Iorio.
- The 1-0 lead stayed that way until the bottom of the fifth. Evan Weyler lined one up the middle for a base hit, and then a perfectly executed hit and run put Weyler on third following a Josh Cunningham single. The Colonels then pulled off a successful squeeze play as Di Iorio put down the bunt that brought Weyler home. An error resulted in Cunningham scoring, and then Di Iorio scored after a Sewanee wild pitch to make it 4-0.
- The Tigers put runners on first and second in the top of the seventh and were one ball away from putting the tying run at the plate, but Conner Jackson turned a 6-3 double play to get the final outs.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORES
 
- Di Iorio finished with five hits across the doubleheader with RBIs in both games.
- Prather went the distance once again, pitching his first career shutout after scattering seven hits across seven innings and finishing with a career high eight strikeouts, including four in a row during the early innings.
- With the win, Centre guarantees a winning record in conference play for the first time since the 1997 season. Centre's 11 wins in conference are the most ever for the Colonels in a season.
 
NEXT UP
 
Centre baseball will be on the road for the next five games, starting with a trip to Hanover on Apr. 11.