STERLING, Kan. – Kansas Wesleyan Baseball scored 16 runs over the course of the fourth, fifth and sixth innings of Saturday's game with Sterling and would claim a 19-9 run-rule shortened win over the Warriors.
Chris Finocchario hit a 2-run homer in the first inning for the Coyotes to put KWU up 2-0, but Sterling scored five runs in the bottom of the inning to take a 5-2 lead.
Finocchario led off the third with another homer but Sterling answered back with a run in the bottom of the inning.
Wesleyan started its rally in the fourth as
Chase Aurand walked and
Niko Olson was hit by a pitch to put two on for
Fernando Ruvalcaba to drive home with a single.
The Coyotes put 10 runs on the board in the fifth inning on only four hits.
Logan Arndt and
Zac Goldenberg singled then scored on Aurand's 3-run homer. Four walks to the next five batters loaded the bases and brought in a run.
Blake Dale then walked to bring in another run and another walk to Arndt brough in another run. Goldenberg then clubbed a grand slam for the Coyotes to make it 15-6.
In the sixth the Coyotes put two on and Finocchario reached on an error with two outs that let two runs score. Dale then homered, a 2-run shot to make it 19-6.
Sterling got a run in the sixth and two more in the seventh, but the Coyotes would get the win.
Four different players had two hits each. Fincocchario drove in four and Goldenberg fdrove in four.
Aidan Henderson got the win for the Coyotes, going three and a third innings in relief of starter
Davin Hinote.
The teams started the second game of the doubleheader and third of the series, and got to the top of the fifth inning with KWU leading 10-2 before inclement weather hit and forced the suspension of the game until Monday.
