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The John Carroll baseball team proved to be quite the entertainers Saturday in Wilmington, providing the patrons in attendance both an exhilarating escape and a multitude of fireworks.

The escape was engineered in the opening game of a doubleheader with the host Wilmington College Quakers, rallying from a late 3-2 deficit to pull out a 5-3 victory with three runs in the top of the seventh.

In the nightcap, it was all fireworks as the JCU squad bashed out 27 hits -- tying for the second highest single game total in program history -- as part of a 20-0 victory.

John Carroll had to rally twice in the first game. After falling behind 2-0, the Blue Streaks used RBI hits by Robby Cifelli and Bobby Sabatino to knot the score at 2-2 in the fifth inning.

The Streaks again trailed entering the final frame, and it was again Cifelli and Sabatino who figured prominently. Aaron Miller drove home the tying run with a bases loaded single, scoring Cifelli, who led the inning off with a walk.

Ryan Konsler then pushed across the go-ahead run, as he flied out to left field to score Sabatino from third.

With two outs  and the bases loaded, Tyler Gentile drew a bases on balls to bring home Mitchell Herringshaw with an insurance run.

Zach Verner pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to earn the save in support of Jimmy Spagna who started and Kevin Rosinski, who picked up the win in relief.

Herringshaw had three hits to pace the office.

The nightcap was never in doubt as the Blue Streaks scored five times in the first inning, twice in the second, six times in the third and three more in the fourth to build a 16-0 lead. Offensive heroes abounded, as Spagna was 4-4 with four runs scored and four RBI, while Konsler was 4-4 with two runs scored and five RBI. Both had two-run home runs as part of the six-run third frame.

Konsler had consecutive RBI hits in the second, third and fourth innings.

Lost in the offensive explosion was the starting pitching effort by Patrick O'Brien, who allowed just five hits, struck out four and walked none in his six innings. The win by the senior moved his record to 2-0 on the season.

John Carroll is now 15-8 overall and 4-2 in the OAC, while Wilmington falls to 4-18 and 1-5 in league play.