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BOLIVAR, Mo. -- The Washburn baseball team opened the 2010 season with a doubleheader sweep over Southwest Baptist on Friday afternoon at Dodson Field. The Ichabods (2-0, 2-0 MIAA) took game one 3-1 and the nightcap 12-4. The two teams will wrap up the series with a doubleheader tomorrow at Noon.
Danny Cook (1-0) gave up one run on five hits over five innings to earn the game one win.
Jeremy Heeke allowed two hits in two innings earning his first save of the season.
The Ichabods scored a single run in the second, third and fourth innings.
Brian Gomez led off the second with a single and scored on
Dane Simoneau's double to make it 1-0.
Wes Joy drove in
Travis Cruz in the third with an RBI double and Cruz drove in Vicente Vieyra with an RBI single in the fourth.
Southwest Baptist (0-8, 0-2 MIAA) scored its only tally in the fifth with an RBI groundout. Greg Seay (0-3) took the loss for SBU allowing the three runs on seven hits in seven innings.
Washburn struck first in game two with a single run in the third inning on a Joy RBI groundout. The Bearcats tied the game in the bottom half of the inning and took a 2-1 lead in the fourth, but the Ichabods broke the game open with a seven-run sixth inning.
Blake Boling had a two-RBI single,
Brian Clark drove in two with a bases-loaded double to make it 5-2. Gomez added an RBI single and Simoneau followed that up with an RBI double to make it 7-2.
Andy Petz finished off the inning with an RBI single.
Washburn tacked on two more runs each in the seventh and eighth innings. Petz went 5-for-5 with a pair of RBI in the contest, while Clark finished 3-for-4 with three RBI and Boling knocked in three as well. The Ichabods had 17 hits as a team and six players had multi-hit games.
Dustin Holthaus (1-0) picked up his first win of the season allowed two runs on five hits in seven innings of work.
Mitchell Carver allowed two runs on five hits in two innings of relief.
This is the first time Washburn has swept a season-opening doubleheader since 1992.
