DANVILLE, Ky. - Centre baseball improved to 13-2 on the year after a doubleheader sweep against the Berea Mountaineers, winning by scores of 9-3 and 22-1 to complete the sweep for their sixth win in a row.
Game 1: Centre 9, Berea 3
- Centre picked up runs in each of the first two innings. In the first,
Ayden Lohr singled, stole second and scored on a base hit from
Chase Austin. One inning later,
Evan Weyler led off with a base hit, stole second and eventually scored after
Forrest Day drove him in with a shot up the middle for an RBI single.
- The Mountaineers tied the score in the third and things calmed down until the fifth when
JT Weisberg led off with a walk and stole second. With Weisberg on third,
Jamison Craig laid down a perfect bunt for a base hit and an RBI.
- In the sixth, Centre put runners on the corner after a pair of walks and a balk. Another Berea balk allowed
Aaron Lopez to score for a 4-2 Centre lead. Weyler then stole third and
Graham Johnson walked and stole second. A single from Weisberg made it 5-2 and then he and Johnson pulled off a successful double steal, with Johnson stealing home to make it a 6-2 game. Day capped off the four-run inning with an RBI groundout.
- The Colonels added to the lead in the seventh when
Ben Prather, playing his first game of the year, legged out a leadoff infield hit, stole the next two bases and scored on a sacrifice fly from Weyler.
- After Berea scored in the eighth, Centre got that run back in the bottom of the inning when Prather doubled into the gap to score Day
Game 2: Centre 22, Berea 1 (7 innings)
- Berea took a quick lead in the second game of the doubleheader as a solo home run put the Mountaineers up 1-0 with two outs in the top of the first.
- Trailing 1-0 in the second, the Colonels had runners on first and second with two outs when they rallied for their most crooked number in an inning all season long. Prather delivered a base hit to tie the game. Lohr followed with a shot up the middle to drive in two runs. Austin was up next and belted one over the right field fence for a two-run homer.
- Three batters later, with runners now on the corner, an error kept the inning going and allowed Lopez to cross the plate.
Matthew Maggard went the other way into the gap for a double to drive in two more runs.
Baylor Woodall then hit a double off the left field wall to finish off a nine-run frame for the Colonels.
- Centre kept the pressure on in the third, scoring five runs on three hits, five walks and a hit by pitch. The biggest hit of the inning was a two-run single from Prather, with Austin, Lopez and Weisberg all getting RBIs in the frame.
- Maggard continued his hot start to the season in the fourth with another RBI as he drove in pinch runner
Tristan Vallone with a base hit up the middle to make it 15-1.
- Centre loaded the bases with nobody out in the fifth and drove in a pair of runs without swinging the bat as
Michael Lynch was hit by a pitch and
Joel Lopez walked. A wild pitch brought another run across the plate, and then Day and Maggard hit sacrifice flies to put Centre up 20-1.
- The final two RBIs for the Colonels came in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by
Wyatt Wilson and a single from Day.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORES
- Making his first appearances since the 2025 NCAA Tournament, Prather went 4-8 at the plate with four RBIs across the doubleheader.
- Centre combined for 20 stolen bases across the doubleheader, led by five from Lohr.
- Five of the six pitchers Centre used in the doubleheader were freshmen as starters
Nolan Asher and
Tommy Severson each picked up their fourth wins of the season.
NEXT UP
Centre baseball will go for the series sweep against Berea on Sunday, with the first pitch slated for 12 PM.
