Box Score Losing a home game due to the weather hurts but the John Carroll University baseball team looked to capitalize on playing at Ohio Wesleyan for the second time in less than a week.

The Blue Streaks capitalized on their opportunity scoring a season-high 16 runs on a season-high 19 hits to take the game from the Battling Bishops 16-5. John Carroll improved to 11-6 on the season and have now won seven in a row. The win streak is the longest since the 2009 team won eight straight from March 3-14. The game was originally supposed to be played at John Carroll but bad field conditions forced the game to Delaware, Ohio and John Carroll became the away team.

"It was a good offensive performance," said head coach Marc Thibeault. "I thought we had some really good at bats. We had some good, quality at bats which maybe didn't result in hits, but it feeds the next guy and does a pretty good job giving them confidence to get a good hit."

John Carroll's batters did not disappoint jumping on Ohio Wesleyan starter Peter Munger from the start. Robby Cifelli and Bobby Sabatino laced back-to-back hits to start the game and keep the Battling Bishops on their toes. Mitchell Herringshaw drove in the game's first run with a RBI ground out. Three batters later David Lykens cleared the bases with a 2-run double and came in to score the fourth run of the inning on Mark Huddle's double.

The Blue and Gold added a run in the fifth inning. Tyler Gentile singled to center with two outs to bring in Herringshaw to make it 5-2.

John Carroll added six more runs in the seventh inning to break the game wide open. Herringshaw notched his second hit of the game to bring in Sabatino for the inning's first run. Chet Lauer, who homered in the game at Ohio Wesleyan on Thursday, clubbed a 2-run homer to left center. Three batters later the Blue Streaks struck again from two more runs courtesy of a sacrifice fly by Huddle and a single by Jimmy Spagna. Sabatino closed out the inning with a RBI single to right.

The offense was not finished added three runs in the eighth. Lykens added his third RBI of the game bring in Lauer. Huddle continued to heat up at the plate ripping a 2-run double to left center for the innings final two runs.

David Crowley pinch hit in the ninth and added a sacrifice fly for JCU's 15th run of the game. Spagna closed out the hit parade with a 2-out single to left to bring in Lauer.

Ohio Wesleyan jumped on the scoreboard with a run of its own in the first. A 2-out single by Aaron Caputo scored Sean Vollenweider.

The Battling Bishops cut the Blue Streaks' lead in half in the home half of the third. Dalton Martz led off the inning with a double and came in to score on Caputo's second RBI hit of the game to make it 4-2.

The Battling Bishops would score once in the seventh and twice in the eighth.

Nine Blue Streaks recorded a hit on the day. Leading the way offensive were Huddle (2-4, four RBIs), Lykens (2-4, three RBIs) and Lauer (4-5, two RBIs). Mark Materise picked up the win to move to 2-1 on the season. The freshman worked 3 1/3 innings of relief only scattering two hits.

Said Thibeault, "It was great to get production out of the bottom of the lineup. Anytime you can get production out of that It takes the pressure off of the middle and the top and we can score some runs with the whole lineup. We executed and did a really good job."
The Blue Streaks travel to Ohio Northern for a doubleheader on Saturday, April 5 beginning at 1 p.m. JCU's game at Denison on Wednesday, April 2 has been cancelled.