Baseball Rumbles Past Jaspers in Doubleheader Sweep

Colonials erase deficits in both games to sweep second twin-bill of the year

 ARLINGTON, Va. - GW baseball secured a walk-off win in the opening game of Saturday's doubleheader against Manhattan, 7-6 in 11 innings, before coming from behind and blowing out the Jaspers in the nightcap, 18-7. The Colonials have now swept doubleheaders in consecutive weekends to improve to 7-4 on the year.
GW 7, Manhattan 6 (11): The Colonials played from ahead for the majority of Saturday's opener before having to rally in extra innings for the win.
GW was in front 5-3 heading to the ninth before Manhattan tied the game on a two-run single. The Jaspers grabbed a 6-5 lead in the top of the 11th, but the Colonials rallied in the home half to walk off with the win.
Redshirt freshman Derek Ripp started the rally with a walk before being run for by first-year Trey Torain. After a sacrifice bunt, first-year Cade Fergus tied the game with a single and raced home on the game-winning double from junior Nate Fassnacht.
Fergus and Fassnacht led the Colonials offensively with three hits a piece as Fergus drove in three runs in the opener. First-year Noah Levin went 2-for-5 and smashed his first career home run, a solo shot in the last of the eighth.
Senior Nate Woods tossed 8.1 innings in a no-decision for GW, allowing four runs on eight hits with six strikeouts. Junior Keagan McGinnis earned the victory in relief, striking out four in 2.1 innings of work.
GW 18, Manhattan 7: The Jaspers came out swinging in game two, blasting three home runs in the first five innings to take a 7-4 lead halfway home. That's when GW's offense went to work with 14 unanswered runs over the next three frames for the runaway victory.
Sophomore Tyler Hix accounted for half of the 14 runs with seven RBIs in three at-bats. Hix followed Fassnacht's two-run double with one of his own in the fifth inning to move the Colonials ahead, 8-7. A Dom D'Alessandro single gave GW a 9-7 edge as part of a five-run fifth inning. 
The Buff & Blue then blew things wide open with six runs in the sixth. Fassnacht and junior Steve Barmakian plated runs before Hix drove in two more with another double, this one just inside the third base bag.
First-year Logan Doran capped off the six-run frame with a two-run single to center, making it 15-7. In the next inning, Barmakian drove in a run with a base knock before scoring on Hix's two-run home run to straight away center.
Hix surpassed his six-RBI effort last week against Saint Peter's with a seven-RBI game, going 3-for-5 with three extra-base hits and four runs scored. Fassnacht notched three hits, two runs and three RBI while Barmakian scored three times and drove in a pair. D'Alessandro, Levin and Doran all plated two runs as well.
On the hill, junior Jaret Edwards gutted his way through five innings to earn the win. Sophomore Trevor Kuncl was brilliant in relief, silencing the Jaspers over four scoreless innings with three strikeouts to earn the save.

Recap, photo courtesy of George Washington