THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Lucas Danielewicz blasted his second home run of the season, Alec Garcia hit his first, and Cal Lutheran baseball extended its win streak to five games by routing Caltech 14-4 in seven innings on Friday afternoon.
The Kingsmen (17-6, 8-5 SCIAC) offense stayed hot against the Beavers (8-19, 1-12 SCIAC), scoring 14 runs on 14 hits as Danielewicz, Garcia, Gordon Richardson, Josh Quinn, and Sebastian Smith all posted multi-hit games. The Kingsmen have scored 10+ runs in four of the five games during their win streak.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Luke Wechsler (W) picked up the win in his second complete game of the season and tied his career-high in strikeouts with 10.
The Kingsmen got going in the second inning, as Smith singled and eventually scored off a Beavers error for the game's first run and Richardson followed it up with an RBI single to score Noah Matsumoto.
Up 4-0, Danielewicz broke the game open in the fourth inning with a three-run homer to bring his team-leading RBI total to 29. The Kingsmen got two more runs in the fifth after Richardson scored on an error and Smith walked with the bases loaded, and four runs in the sixth after a pair of two RBI singles by Quinn and Smith to make it 13-4.
In the seventh, Garcia hit a solo shot to put the Kingsmen up by 10, securing the in-conference mercy-rule victory as the contest concluded after seven innings. Garcia joins Danielewicz (2), Troy Anderson (4), Blake Wink (1), Quinn (1), and Kai Caranto (1) in the home-run club for the Kingsmen.
THE NUMBERS
- Wechsler (5-3): 7.0 IP, 6 H, 2 BB, 4 ER, 10 K
- Danielewicz: 2-5, HR, 2B, R, 4 RBI
- Garcia: 2-5, HR, 2 R, RBI
- Smith: 3-3, 2 BB, R, 3 RBI
- Richardson: 2-5, 2 R, RBI
UP NEXT
The Kingsmen look to extend their win streak and take the series against Caltech in tomorrow's doubleheader on Saturday, April 6 at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
