SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- The Washburn offense plated 11 runs in five innings while the pitching staff carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning to highlight Washburn's 12-2 season opening victory Friday evening over Cal State San Bernardino. The Ichabods have now won six-consecutive opening day games and are 1-0 to start the 2020 season.
 
Parker Dunn got the Ichabods on the board with a solo shot to center field in the second inning in his first at bat as an Ichabod. The Ichabods cranked up the offense in the third inning, scoring seven runs on seven hits. Holding an 8-0 lead in the fifth, Wyatt Featherston added three more runs with one swing as he hit his fifth Washburn career homer.

Washburn starter Jacob Head carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning and allowed his only baserunners on five walks. The Coyotes reached third base in both the first and second innings, but Head was able to work out of the innings unscathed. He captured the victory, going 4.1 innings, with six walks, and three strikeouts. Nick Steiner took over in the fifth and turned in 1.2 hitless innings with one walk and one strikeout.

Cole Emerson entered the game in the top of the sixth as a pinch runner for Michael Oyervides, who worked a one out walk. Emerson advanced to third and then scored when the Coyotes' catcher committed a throwing error attempting to catch Carson Sader stealing second.

In the seventh inning, Cal State San Bernardino placed runners on first and second after a hit batter and a Washburn error and then scored their first run off their first hit of the night. The Coyotes scored one more unearned run in the bottom of the eighth to make the score 12-2. Dalton Huggins finished out the game with a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth. 

Three Ichabods recorded three hits on the night. Dunn was 3-3 with three RBI and three runs scored and drew one walk. Featherston was 3-5 and knocked in four runs while scoring once. Lead off hitter Xavier De Leon was 3-3 with one run. In his Ichabod debut, Tyler Clark-Chiapparelli added two hits with an RBI and a run scored.
  
The Ichabods will be back in action tomorrow against the Coyotes in a doubleheader of two seven inning games starting at 2 p.m. central time.